I am certainly no expert when it comes to sleep. What I have learnt over the last five years however is that I certainly value my sleep, as does every other mum! The thing is, every baby and child is very different. A sleeping method or strategy which worked well with one child may […]
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When my son was three, he was diagnosed with mild/moderate Autism. We were fortunate to get funding and see a psychologist which has helped our family so much in terms of strategies to manage difficult or even normal behaviour in toddlers and young children. Today, I use these strategies with all my children and find
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We want the best for our children and so we try to limit their exposure to harmful influences. This is no easy feat. It’s harder still when those influences are within your extended family. On the one hand you want your children to know and love their family but on the other hand you’re
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Forming good habits is always difficult. Forming good prayer habits can, at times, seem impossible, especially when you have small children. Fitting prayer, quality family prayer, into the busyness of parenting can be a challenge but it is worth it! Here are some tips for encouraging children, from a young age, to pray: Start
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We go through a lot of Rosary beads in our house. Those beads connected by chains are routinely pulled apart by duelling siblings, so much so that I’ve invested in beading pliers just to fix them. Plastic Rosary beads last until the beads start disintegrating under the constant chewing of younger children and even
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I’m a fairly organised person, perhaps bordering on too organised. I prepare the night before where possible and leave little to chance. This has become more pronounced since my children started school last year. This year, with two at school, mornings can become very frantic despite my best efforts. Our alarm goes off at
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It will come as no surprise that I’m an avid reader and that I encourage my children to have a large appetite for reading too. Along the way we have discovered some absolute gems of Catholic books that I believe every Catholic family should have. Children’s Bible I can’t recommend one in particular
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Miss 3 will turn 4 soon and I’m already composing a text message in my head to send out to family. It’s going to read something like this: Please avoid buying presents that emphasise the ‘prettiness’ of little girls. We would prefer presents that focus on more practical attributes. Maybe you think that sounds
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Starting a family is daunting enough but even more so when everyone tells you that your life is about to end. And maybe it does change, irrevocably. But it doesn’t end as such. Sure the late, carefree partying and accompanying sleepovers the next morning are a thing of the past. So are sleep-ins and
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Master 19 months is covered in bruises, bumps and scrapes. Just yesterday he fell over outside on cement, stood up in the bath and fell over before hubby could catch him and jammed his fingers in a kitchen drawer. A month ago he had his hands jammed in doors, on two separate occasions on
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