When Annie Ridout’s children kick a ball and knock over the cat food, she shouts at them. And then feels full of guilt. Here, Annie discusses everyday motherhood frustrations and why ‘maternal rage’ needs a rebrand…
Essays
“My memories are of the targets and the pace, the expectations from others and the foresight into my future that I was expected to possess already,” writes Nicola Dellard-Lylle. So she decided to do things differently with her own child…
Family
There are 1.6 million single mothers in the UK and yet it remains difficult to find the right support, so journalist Amy Rose teamed up with clinical psychologist Dr Emma Cotterill to write a book on how to boost your emotional wellbeing as a single mum…
Features
Holly Ruskin – writer, lecturer and co-founder of Blood Moon POETRY press – discusses her education at a private girls’ school and explains why she wants something different for her daughter…
Family
When Annie Ridout’s poem ‘what I want’ went viral, she realised it’s because it’s not just her feeling conflicted; it’s all mothers…
Essays
In this essay, Annie Ridout discusses the impact the pandemic is having on children and wonders when the Government will start to prioritise children’s mental and physical needs over football matches…
Essays
Annie Ridout discusses those days when motherhood stands firmly in the way of work. The extra childcare responsibilities, the mental load and the emotions…
Essays
In this essay, Annie Ridout explores her motherhood anger. Some of it stemming from tiredness and some of it, from the fierce protectiveness that arrived with her first baby…
Essays
An essay by Annie Ridout on the reality of being a mother to three young children, in which she challenges the notion that some mothers just breeze through it…
Wellbeing
Having spent a year juggling far too many balls, it’s about time mothers put themselves first. Here, Annie Ridout shares ideas for working out what you want from life…