Sometimes teaching my child feels like taking a donkey to the water. I’m the mum who makes all her study notes to help her—hoping it will make things easier. I sit next to her through the study...
This was a hard one for me to write about. Some kids are good at studying and understanding concepts, and others — like my daughter, who is 12 years old — struggle with everything. And coming to terms...
Somewhere along the way, we started measuring our children’s worth by the grades they bring home. If they do well, we call them “good kids.” If they don’t, we panic, label, lecture, or silently...
Parenting. No one truly tells you how messy, unpredictable, and overwhelming it can be until you’re in the thick of it. I signed up to have a baby. I didn’t sign up for the complaining, the whining...
(Spoiler: They Don’t Exist, and That’s a Good Thing) Remember how we said parenting is a circus? Let’s talk about one of the trickiest acts in the whole show: trying to look like we’ve got it all...
(and I am the Clown, the Lion Tamer, and the Escape Artist). Let’s just say it: parenting is wild. It’s beautiful and magical and deeply fulfilling, but also chaotic, exhausting and...