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How To Be A Better Parent All The Time At Everything

Rookie Mom
Dear Parent, You’re probably thirty-something. You probably have a child or two under the age of four. You never knew you could feel SO MUCH LOVE, but you also never knew it was going to be THIS HARD. There are moments of sheer delight, but they’re often separated by long, mundane hours that range from…
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Rookie Mom: A Pretty Ordinary Day

Rookie Mom
4.00am – “MAMA! I’m awake! Look, it’s a morning! What’s today?” We’ll never go out of style – T.S Stumbling out of bed, I switch on the kettle. One bottle of rooibos tea with honey, one bottle of formula, one cup of green tea. The boys and I lie on the couch sipping on our…
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My Extremely Helpful Guide to Christmas Shopping

Rookie Mom
This is me trying to choose a present for someone. Notice the dark rings under my eyes. Notice the worry on my brow. I’m actually feeling stressed out just writing this. Everyone is always saying, “I love Christmas shopping! I love queues! I love credit card debt!” Not me. I don’t like any of those…
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How To Give A Compliment

Rookie Mom
Have you ever been on the way to visit someone who has really great hair, and on the way there you realise you didn’t shower that day and forgot to put your hair up and now you were on your way to visit someone with really great hair? I have. It happened last weekend when…
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Are You a Terrible Parent?

Rookie Mom
This is a photo of Will crying because another child was playing on the part of the jungle gym he was playing in before we left the jungle gym to have a snack. Obviously. Last week, I was informed by a perfect stranger in a public place that I was a terrible parent. When a…
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