“Our house is quite small. I’m a firm believer in toy rotation so we never have everything out. We also keep the sitting room a toy-free zone which helps me feel like an adult at the end of the day!” Eloise Rickman (@mightymother_) talks motherhood and Montessori living…
Category Archive: Family
Family
The early years of your child’s life are integral to their later happiness, so why are we told so little about them? Claudette Anderson – mother, and co-founder of Holding the Baby; a new kind of antenatal class – discusses the support parents need during these formative years…
Family
“When my daughter was born I was all attachment-parenting everything. I held her and rocked her and nursed her as much as she wanted. But now I’m really questioning that whole approach.” Kait Vanosch, Canadian-born but living in the Austrian Alps, talks family, nature and living in a small home…
Family
Tired of London’s fast pace, they took their six-year-old twins to travel around Latin America. Two years later, Dominic Chapman and Lindsay Green are still living abroad, homeschooling the twins. They told us all about their travels (and not having plans to return)…
Family
Maternity leave – a year off work drinking coffee and playing with a cute baby – may sound like a nice extended holiday. But the reality is quite different, as French illustrator Emma relays in this revealing comic strip…
Family
With the natural birth movement challenging the more medicalised model of birth, new mothers are feeling as if they’ve failed if they have an epidural, or need medical intervention during childbirth. Emma Svanberg explains why this is a feminist issue…
Family
A recent trial offered a cash incentive to mothers for breastfeeding their babies. Annie Ridout argues that what mothers need is respect and a change in attitude towards breastfeeding in public – not a patronising suggestion that money solves all issues…
Family
While out running, Annie Ridout fell over. She didn’t trip, her body simply stopped working for a moment and collapsed. A trip to the doctors, followed by blood tests, revealed a calcium deficiency as the cause. In dairy farming, it’s called Milk Fever…
Family
If you’re a woman, you might feel annoyed about being told you’re a nag. If you’re a man, you might feel as if you’re constantly being nagged. But where does this gender stereotype come from? We ask a psychotherapist and couples counsellor…
Family
Helen and Oliver Jackson were unhappy in their office jobs so after the birth of their daughter, they both opted for a career change. Helen re-trained as a florist and launched Petal and Pot, Oliver as a carpenter – he runs Work the Plank. Here’s their story…