South African Parenting & Lifestyle Blog
Today is National Cake Day and you can count on me to celebrate it – I have a delicious and easy chocolate cake recipe to share! Over the last few months, I’ve been doing quite a lot of experimenting with Royal Baking Powder and I have loved seeing my baking confidence grow. Of course, it’s […]
My daughter gets excited every time I bring home anything new and she literally shrieked when she saw her Puma Tinycottons sneakers and top. The mandarin-coloured items with a cherry-logo caught her eye and she immediately asked to change into them. If you follow me on Instagram and watch my stories, you will know that my daughter […]
As World Hunger Month draws to a close, I wanted to share a bit of what I did, in my little world, to try and solve what I regard as a national crisis. I was both sad and shocked to hear this: 1120 children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition in South Africa! As […]
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 […]
Give me eggs any day and you are sure to get me EGGcited! I love eggs in all forms – much to the annoyance of those closest to me, because I will always order the same’ol’eggs when we eat out. I really can’t EGG’splain it! If you’re looking for a royal breakfast, that is also […]
I’m with and around my children almost every day but I’ll be honest and say that I don’t feel like I have been spending enough QUALITY time with them. If I’m not rushing them out of the house for school in the morning, I’m nagging about homework or settling down for bedtime. It’s not often […]
It’s safe to say that we can’t distance ourselves from technology and truthfully, neither can our kids. Our ever-connected world means that my two year old daughter knows exactly how to use my smartphone and my son is often the one teaching me new stuff on our devices. The technology topic is a difficult and […]
I become a mom in the first year that I started working, shortly after completing my degree – during that time, I had lots of decisions to make and the ones that weighed most heavily on me were the financial ones. I did some research and found out that I needed a retirement plan, an educational policy […]
We have been putting the new Listerine Smart Rinse to the test, after all, September was National Oral Health Month. Dental health may not be most exciting topic, but it’s one of the most important ones that we often overlook as Moms. Motivating our children to adopt good dental habits isn’t easy but a mouth […]
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 […]