Kinship

Babies-Teething

Teething: a mum’s story

My 5 month old must be teething. She is chewing on everything from fingers (her own and other people’s) to toys and she drools so much she can run herself a bath almost anywhere.  And I consider myself lucky, some mothers in my mum’s group are at the end of their wits with sooki, irritable […]

meditation

Turning parenting worry into gold…

Mothers never stop thinking. We plan, reschedule, worry, make lists, argue, calculate, create, and imagine things in our minds constantly. This morning I woke up at 5.30am. Not because my alarm went off. Not because a child had woken me. I just jolted awake before dawn had even broken and it only took my mind […]