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Playing Favorites – Favoritism in Families

No matter what your best intentions are, favoritism can be found in most families. It is all too easy to favour one child over the other through various stages of them growing up – even if you try your...

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Baby Wearing – Interview with Anna Hughes

We wanted to do a blog and podcast all about ‘Baby Wearing’ so I thought who better to talk to than my friend Anna Hughes who along with her uber supportive husband (and also a long-time friend of...

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Sibling Rivalry

Sibling Rivalry starts as early as before the second child is even born. The anxiety and jealousy a first-born feels before their brother or sister is born can lead to rivalry starting from an...

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My Food Bag & Baby Show Giveaway Winners

It’s been all-go on If Only They’d Told Me Facebook page lately with some fab prizes up for grabs! My food bag giveaway My Food Bag Giveaway Well people are obviously keen on My Food Bag then!  We had...

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Accidental Kidnapping

Just imagine that one day your child doesn’t return home from school when he’s meant to. He’s just getting old enough to start to walk to and from school by himself with his big sister looking out for...

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How To Be A Happy Stay-at-home Mum

Being a stay-at-home mum can be a fun but demanding job – note the ‘job’ bit ladies, as it is. It’s not a walk-in-the-park by any means. Some women thrive at being stay-at-home mums whereas others lose...

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Night Time Toilet Training

I’m in the throws of night time toilet training TWO boys!  It’s stressful and I sometimes feel like I ‘live in the laundry’.  So I thought it would be a great idea to bring Di Hurford from NZ business...

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Ceremony & Celebration

Have you ever been to a Naming Day Ceremony or are you planning a Wedding?  In our Podcast episode #125 and video, I’m chatting with Rochelle Fleming the NZ Wedding Celebrant & Specialist. Click...

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A pledge to Plunket

Nat and I are huge fans of New Zealand’s Plunket. Plunket helped each of us through some tough times. Personally my breastfeeding experience almost had me beaten. I had struggled for 8 weeks and spent...

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Car seat safety

As parents, we are advised to ensure that we purchase and fit safe car seats for our children when they are born, but do any of us actually understand why and the importance of this purchase? I...

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Paul Henry interview – Hot Nanny

Photo by Splash Most of you may remember the Hot Nanny blog I did a wee while back…if not, you can see the whole blog post here and the podcast here. Well, Hot Nanny’s have raised their heads again...

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Maintaining a life after children

Something Nat and I are often asked about is how you can maintain a life after children. We’ve done many talks about it at The Parenting Place and other venues so I thought it about time we shared our...

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Discovering your pregnant

Discovering your pregnant can throw the most well adjusted woman into complete disarray. You may have been trying to get pregnant for an absolute age then suddenly you discover you are and…despite...

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Getting along with the in-laws

For some reason, in-laws seem to get a bad wrap in life. Mother-in-laws in particular are often the subject of unwanted jokes about ‘monster-in-laws’ and the ‘mother-in-law from hell’ and there have...

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Bad Mother

It’s inevitable as a mother that at one time or another (at the very least!!) you feel like a bad one. Every day we mums beat ourselves up about the stuff we do or don’t do for our kids and … The post...

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School holiday fun

Many parents might not admit it but actually dread the school holidays for a number of reasons (a UK survey in 2012 showed that 2 out of 5 parents dreaded the school holidays!). There are three main...

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Milking Mothers Day

Mothers generally are over-run, frantic and spend most of their days giving to everyone else around them and doing very little for themselves. Something happens when you become a mum. You may have been...

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Top tips to organise hassle-free birthday parties

Unless you’re the type of person who doesn’t mind taking out a small mortgage for your child’s birthday then birthday’s – and parties in particular – can be fraught and stressful for most parents....

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Entertaining the children in wet winter weather – without a device!

When it’s miserable and wet outside it’s so easy to reach for the remote, ipad or play station to entertain the kids. Frighteningly more and more our children are relying on devices to keep themselves...

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The Baby Show 2016

If you haven’t yet got your tickets to 2016 Baby Show then now is your chance. It runs from 19-21 August at ASB Showgrounds in Auckland. There is plenty to see and do there – get the latest must-haves...

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