Help your child to study

I can’t believe that we’re approaching the last day of the first term in the 2019 academic year! This means that the winter exam season awaits us in a few weeks (spoiler-alert). This time last year, I remember being overwhelmed with my son’s transition between grade three and grade four. Then, just as I got into […]

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Pregnancy – Baby Number Three

My family is growing and I’m so excited and grateful for my pregnancy with baby number three! I am also really grateful for all the love on my pregnancy announcement post, which I was initially very skeptical about. If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know that I didn’t share or announce my […]

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Moving your toddler into their own room

Moving your toddler into their own bedroom; toddler bedroom;

Moving your toddler into their own room causes anxiety for a lot of parents, so I thought I would write about our experience and share it with you. Transitioning our co-sleeping toddler into her own room, has been both easy and difficult and I’ll explain why a bit later. Parents choose to move their toddler […]

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The new mommy and Post Natal Depression

Post Natal Depression

My experience as a new mom with post natal depression might be many years old, but it is one that I wont forget and want to keep talking about it because of how lost and lonely I felt. For the longest time, I didnt even realise that I was suffering from Post Natal Depression (also known […]

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Tips to get your child exam-ready

Exam season is here! My son is in grade four, so this is the first year that I have had to deal with the pressure and anxiety that comes with him writing exams. The end of the year is undoubtedly the most stressful time for the kids, but as parents we’re not immune from it […]

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Potty Training Tips

Toddler potty training. reading books on the toilet.

Now that we have successfully gone through our potty training journey, it seems like it was easy, but it definitely didn’t feel like that while we were going through it. It was one of those milestones I secretly wished would take care of itself, with minimal intervention from my side, but we all know it […]

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