MollyMumofTwo's Blog

Australian nurse Beth Whaanga has had a lot of things happen to her body. As well as having two scars from a melanoma lumpectomy, she is also missing the lymph node on the underside of her left arm. When she was told she is a carrier of the BRCA2 gene, a gene that puts women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, she underwent double mastectomy and a total hysterectomy. Her body now tells a...

Now that youngsters have easy access to a number of social media sites, they are more exposed to cyberbullying than ever before. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that cyberbullying in post-primary schools has gone up by a third. A new report from the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), showed that cyberbullying in secondary schools has gone up by a third in the last...

This video is perfect if you want to catch up on your movies before the Oscars on 2 nd March. The tiny members of the cast re-enact a host of Oscar nominated flicks that will leave you in stitches.

While most parents think they are the ones in control of the upbringing of their kids, a new study showed that the ball isn’t in their court all the time. The study suggests that parenting is not about the characteristics of a mum or dad alone, but rather, something that results from a child’s attributes as well as their parent’s. When researchers looked at over 14,000 twins, they found that...

As part of a campaign to provide warm clothing to children in Syria, the Norwegian branch of the SOS Children’s Villages International charity created this extremely heart warming video. Not only does it highlight the charity’s cause but it also shows the lengths people will go to to help others around them. The kindness of strangers is well and truly alive. (To translate the video choose...

When this little girl listens to her parent’s wedding song Feel like Home by Chantal Kreviazuk, she is reduced to tears. It is very sweet.

This new baby meme is hilarious. When a friend of this kid’s parents put an image of the young boy eating cereal up on Reddit and captioned it: “Look, tell Clyde he’s a dumbass... and then fire him” they probably didn’t expect it to turn onto a baby business meme. However, once social media users got their hands on it the results are pretty funny. Enjoy!...

There is a growing concern on how youngsters can easily create multiple accounts on social media that will allow them to speak to strangers. Since parents are preoccupied with the sexual dangers associated with it, they never ask a very important question: why? According to danah boyd, author of I t’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens , parents should be concerned with why their...

American photographer Jessica Storm first started taking pictures of babies in a NICU when she was a volunteer with Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, a nonprofit organisation that takes pictures of babies in hospital. Jessica said that mums often miss out on taking pictures of their tiny infants when they are first born as they are too concerned about their health, which is where she comes in. Talking...

Children love snow specially when it gets so bad out that it requires a day off school. Unfortunately, as this video shows, the unexpected day off can be a nightmare for most mums. Although resorting to alcohol may be a little extreme.