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I really enjoy reading Lucy Kennedy’s Mums Love Lucy blogs here on MummyPages. Her pieces are so honest and I often find myself smiling while thinking: “You’re so right!” Recently I was reading How to feel like yourself again and it reminded me of how much time it took to “feel like myself again” after our children were born. At the time, I wondered if it took me longer to reach this...

Has family life changed for the better or is it at the detriment of our children’s upbringings? Are we getting the balance between home life and community involvement just right or is the increasing pace of life reducing the amount of time available to participate in the wider community? In years gone by, the extended family – and indeed the local community – all played a much larger role in...

Broadcaster and mum-of-eight Miriam O’Callaghan believes that staying at home and minding your kids is the hardest job in the world but the best thing you can do for them. Before I had my own kids, I would have been totally incredulous at the very suggestion that staying at home with children could possibly be harder than going out to work every day. With the innocent naivety of a childless...

We’ve all been there; that time when you really wished that you could do the impossible and split yourself in two. Not physically possible, I know, but it would come in so handy now and again (who am I kidding? Pretty much all the time!). I would love to have another Me; a Work Me to keep the money coming in and a Home Me to clean, cook healthy nutritious dinners and well, clean. But I can’t...

While innocently - INNOCENTLY I tell you – booking a family cinema ticket the other day, I happened to scroll over the pre-booking option for 50 Shades of Grey the movie. I’ve never been so shocked. Not by the trailer, or the blurb, or the suggestive photographs of Jamie Dornan (I’m so proud he’s Irish…); no, I was shocked to see that the 8.30pm show on Saturday the 14 th February was...

Us mothers are like magnets to guilt. It is so all-consuming that when we do experience a rare hour or two guilt-free, we feel guilty for not feeling guilty. It can’t be good for our health, can it? There is never any real let up and the list of why we feel bad, usually house and parenting related, is never ending: the house is a mess, we haven’t spent enough time with the kids, we gave them...

I have a two-year-old son who won’t go to sleep unless the hoover is humming beside him and he’s clutching a big black stone which he unearthed in our back garden. You become so used to your children’s foibles and eccentricities that it’s only when you say them out loud you wonder whether they’re actually a few sandwiches short of a picnic. This was brought home to me last week when I...

When I found out that I was expecting a child almost seven years ago, I turned to the one person I believed knew absolutely everything about child-rearing: my mum. The woman was a superhero in my eyes. Rearing three children single-handedly after my dad passed away wasn’t an easy job, but my God, she made it look that way. Holding down a full-time job, tending to her children’s day-to-day...

I still remember Ella’s first public meltdown; I have never felt so ill-equipped to deal with something in my entire life. Oh, I had heard about the terrible twos, I had been primed about toddler tantrums and I’d been given the 411 on irrational outbursts, but nothing, and I mean nothing, prepared me for the horror I felt at the time. Standing in the cereal aisle of my local supermarket and...

Being forgetful is definitely a mother’s prerogative. With so many things to remember, stuff to carry and kids to get out of the house, it is pretty easy for silly things, like forgetting to turn off the light in the morning, to simply slip out of your mind. However, problems arise when you start forgetting important things like not bringing your keys to work, going to get milk and picking up...