So this is where my rhetoric gets a bit radical… I don’t identify as a mum. Mum is my title, it is Buddy’s name for me. But fundamentally, I am a parent. I don’t do mum things, I don’t wear mum clothes or attend mum activities. I have no interest in Mother’s Day. Mum media […]
Saying yes to sleep and no to martyrdom
Early on Tee and I decided that sleep would be our #1 priority as parents. I believe it’s the secret sauce in our family arrangement. Everything is easier with sleep – feeding the baby, maintaining a relationship, going back to work, feeling human. I’ve written about this before but now, 18 months into this parenting […]
Equal parenting is a radical pursuit
A few things happened recently that made me realise: equal partnership parenting is radical pursuit. radical /ˈradɪk(ə)l/ adjective1. (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.2. advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of […]