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  • ‘3 Great Reasons I’ve Given My Little Boy A Baby Doll To Care For’

    ‘3 Great Reasons I’ve Given My Little Boy A Baby Doll To Care For’

    I bought my little boy a doll recently. A baby doll to be precise. My husband thinks it’s pretty amusing to wind me up about it. You know, when you get a ‘thing’ in your head about an issue and you won’t stop going on about it… well that’s me about this doll. And boys. […]

    10 years ago

  • The best (and worst) baby classes to attend when you need to get our of the house

    The best (and worst) baby classes to attend when you need to get our of the house

    As any adult who has spent a rainy day indoors with a small child nipping at their heels knows: baby classes can save your sanity. The charming Bake-Off winner Nadiya Hussain spoke recently about how going to classes lifted her out of isolation and helped her through a really tough time in her life. When you’ve […]

    10 years ago

  • One Irish mum on guilt, feminism and the new anxieties of motherhood

    One Irish mum on guilt, feminism and the new anxieties of motherhood

    Feminism, for me, centres on choice. Women dictating what their choices are and being allowed to make them. No one size fits all. When you’re a parent, these choices are fraught with a new type of anxiety that you never used to worry about. How you think longingly of the days when decisions were only […]

    11 years ago