What was your child’s first word?
As a parent you spend a lot of time and effort trying to persuade your children to do something for the first time only to realise, too late, that life was better before they learnt this skill.
Category Archives: parenting
Car Journeys with Children: The Best Bits.
Early morning, we are all in the car. Eeh Bah Son is screaming loudly the rest of us are screaming quietly on the inside. Eeh Bah Daughter: I spy with my little eye something beginning with car. There are no other cars. Eeh Bah Mum: Is it a car? Eeh Bah Daughter: Yes. Laughs manically […]
Could You Be Katie Hopkins?
When you become a mother a whole new world of worry opens up to you: Am I a good mum? Are my children happy? Will they pick up their father’s southern accent? But for me the biggie, the one that keeps me awake at night, is the thought that I could wake up one morning […]
Soft Play: Rules Of Engagement
One Rule To Rule them All The first rule of soft play is that no one talks about soft play. If you did they wouldn’t believe you. I have only written this down so that future generations will know our pain. Fade In: Tonight’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? features Eeh Bah […]
Fantasy Child Free Time.
Anyone who owns small children will know that one of the life’s greatest pleasures is fantasising about all the things you could be doing if only you didn’t have the aforementioned children. In fact it’s a bit of a shock to me as a parent that people who have chosen not to have children aren’t […]
How to get out of the house on time
…..is a brilliant title for a blog post. I would totally read a blog post about that. Oh. I used to be amazing at getting out of the house, if I had been a superhero that would have been my special power. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s ‘Arriving At Places […]
The Eeh Bah Mum Parenting Awards.
Welcome to the Eeh Bah Mum parenting awards, introducing your host – me, sat at the kitchen table wearing a prom dress and heels, swigging fizzy wine and practising my disappointed face. Oh hang on that’s just my face. Remember when Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox hosted the Brits? Well this is going to be […]
No One Pee’s on Frogs.
I do not like princesses. Sorry. I’m not massively keen on fairies either. But I really don’t like princesses. As a 40 year old stay at home mum living in Yorkshire I very rarely come across royalty, either real or fairytale, so to date it has not been much of an issue. Until now. Now […]
Stuff they really should tell you about children.
But no one does. Because let’s face it we learnt the hard way so why shouldn’t everyone else? Basically children are like cakes – it’s all in the timing. (Does this analogy work? I have never baked a cake.) Anyway timing. Before you have children you are seduced by idyllic scenes of family happiness. The […]
Does ‘Bitchy Middle Class Mum’ Exist?
You know those mums? Yeah those mums. The ones that look down their noses at you and your snot covered offspring. The ones with a tribe of picture perfect children all wearing immaculate Breton tops and snacking on hummus and crudités. The ones who can’t help but brag about how wonderful their children are. How […]
