At careers day at primary school, my daughter knew what she wanted to dress up as: ‘I’m going as a mother!’ she said. Of course that’s great. But we talked about how mothers can also be other things, like, y’know, Freudian analysts. In the end she decided to go as Amelia Earhart, whose flying attireContinue reading “Is being a mother an important job? (And what do you wear?)”
Tag Archives: motherhood
How much should you supervise playdates?
Another day, another playdate, another late afternoon wrestling with the dilemma: how much do I need to supervise these little monsters? When it’s just my daughter and her older brother, I’m content to let them disappear for ages, knowing that the older one will keep the younger from practising flying out of upstairs window, and the littleContinue reading “How much should you supervise playdates?”