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Problem Corner: Tips for dealing with being intimidated by other mums at toddler group or school gate

Agony Aunt for Mums

A lovely Mum I know posted the following tweet oneday ‘Hate that I’m intimidated by toddler group. Need to grow some balls. Figuratively speaking.’ so I offered to do a question corner post for her, because what she doesn’t know is that we are all scared shitless of walking into those places (well 99% of […]

Video Wed: Some changes in the Mummy Whisperer Blog enroute

Whispers in your ear

So I’m off for a couple of weeks, (burglars don’t even think about it, there are going to be dog sitters, 2 big dogs and a decorator in the house!) on our first hot summer family holidy, yay! But the blog posts will still keep coming.  Apologies to my RSS readers and kindle readers, because […]

Video Wed: Do you let your child believe in magic?

Video Wed: Do you let your child believe in magic?

Superheroes, Fairies, Magic, Sea Monsters: The world of a child is full of magic.  So do you encourage it because the role playing and imagination is meant to be good for their development.  Or do you worry about what will happen when the reality of life hits them? Then there is romance, princesses, and happily […]

Problem Corner: 15 Signs a friendship could be inappropriate

Agony Aunt for Mums

This question was logged by one of my male readers (I know I’m the ‘mummy whisperer’, but as I’ve been talking about Sex a lot, I’ve gained quite a lot of male readers too), and I have to admit that at first I kind of thought ‘well isn’t it obvious?’. Then I realised that firstly […]

Video Wed: BreastFeeding Awareness week: a Doctor’s ignorance and the importance of complaining

Video Wed: BreastFeeding Awareness week: a Doctor’s ignorance and the importance of complaining

Two weeks ago I went to the doctor, it had taken me months to get sorted and I had a couple of quite important things to talk about.  The first was some pain in the back of my head, and the doctor was insistent that it was nothing to do with an infection I had […]

Video Wed: Stop Whining and Sort It Out

Video Wed: Stop Whining and Sort It Out

Sounds harsh heh, ‘stop whining and sort it out’: but you know what I mean don’t you?  There comes a time when your friends need to stop listening to you, and kick you out the door telling you to do something about it all, or at least one of the things that you are whining […]

MADS Small business Award – might have mentioned I need VOTES!

I think I might have mentioned that I’m a finalist in the national MADs Blogging Awards in the Small Business Category, maybe, just a little! I might also have mentioned that I need votes, a LOT of them in order to have a chance against the big blogs that I’m competing with! Well, I was […]

Video Wed: Cup Half Full, Half Empty or Filled Half Way?

Video Wed: Cup Half Full, Half Empty or Filled Half Way?

So I was chatting with Curly Headed Boy in the car the other morning about how to look at life.  I got him to imagine a glass of water that had been filled half way.  Then I said ‘Is it Half Full or Half Empty?’.  Because both are true.  But it is also true that […]

Video Wed: What are you going to do when you grow up?

Video Wed: What are you going to do when you grow up?

Do you wonder what life has in store? Do you ever look back and think ‘is that all I did?’ Having kids is full of questions about what they will do when they grow up; so far Curly Headed Boy has been a super hero, astronaut, dancer, pop star and is at the moment planning […]

Herts County Show 2011 Review and Tips

Herts County Show 2011 Review and Tips

Today we went to the Hertfordshire County Show for the first time ever, so I thought I’d pop you guys a quick post incase you are thinking of going tomorrow or monday (or even another year!), especially if you’ve never been before like us. So here are my tips: Make sure: Go early!  We got […]