Category Archives: Parenting

Food for vegan kids

  Our kids get dragged along on the dinner merry-go-round. As a result of doing baby-led weaning, perhaps, we adults just eat what we want to eat and the kids pretty much take it or leave it. They get plenty … Continue reading

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Catching the bus. Because we can.

Recently, we went to a coffee morning at a bookshop two suburbs over. It was a little bit wet, so I was looking forward to my soy latte. We were due there at 10. At 8:30 our little miss excitedly … Continue reading

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Mud princess

This precious little moment is the reason our vegie garden isn’t very productive at the moment. Our toddling wanderer digs, pours, tips, stirs and mixes. I couldn’t count the number of ways she’s learning, even if I dared to try. … Continue reading

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Logical Consequences

I think I should make a category for “Stuff people ask me about all the time.” Logical consequences is one of them, and it’s how we try to approach any challenging behaviour of our kids. Today had a high exasperation … Continue reading

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My favourite fashion accessory!

  This is our tiny monster, snuggled onto my hip, and sitting still for the first time all day, in our ring sling. (The jargon jizz for all you babywearers: gathered shoulder, converted from a Bara Barn shawl by Sarra … Continue reading

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