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Parenting can be hard, especially when your kids are younger. This makes taking some time out for yourself even more difficult when you need it the most. But if you do get some me-time, instead of feeling guilty about it, try to spend it in the most relaxing way possible to come out of this...

The path of motherhood is filled with landmines and pitfalls. Sometimes you need an expert to help you find your way. So when experts diagnosed my eldest son John with PDD-NOS, I decided another expert was in order to offer both John ánd me some guidance. So there we were, me sitting cringing in my...

I went to pick up my two youngest sons from a playdate, and there on the dining roomtable, lay the remnants of a game of Monopoly. Four players There'd obviously been four players, and judging from the different piles of money one of them was rich enough to buy the White House, and the second...

Kids... They're a lot like a box of chocolates. Like Forrest Gump said:  'You never know what you're gonna get.' Even though I would like to be That Mom who always gets it right. I usually get it quite wrong... Bowling or McDonalds In our family we have instituted the tradition that the birthday boy...

My son Piet (6) has set his sights on a waveboard, which is a bit like a skateboard, only much more difficult. We'll rent one first 'We'll go and rent one first,' I told him 'cause I'm frugal that way. 'But it's probably not for rent mommy,' Piet whined. 'Well that would be your bad...