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10 Things You Lose During the After Birth

February 16, 2012 By Mad Cow 1 Comment

You may not be aware of this now, but you will soon after venturing out into public or speaking to any other human over the age of 16 years, but lots of things happen during the birthing process; medical, technical, physiological etc that you are rarely, if ever made aware of.

In most cases, you may not even need to know about them, just let the obstetrician, midwife and/or your body just do what they need to do. You can feel free to remain totally oblivious.

One of these psycho-physiological processes is Placento Perditio* which is, basically, the mental and physical losses you incur during the process of delivering the placenta; the afterbirth.

The 10 most common faculties a woman loses upon removal of the placenta immediately post-birth include:

Her sense of humour
Her personal beliefs and values
Her ability to swear
Her temper
Her ability to outwardly display any remotely negative, disapproving or pessimistic emtion towards or in front of her offspring or any other parent
Any emotion or feelings towards anything or anyone other than her offspring, especially herself
Any desire to do anything for herself
Ability to speak of anything not directly related to her offspring, or babies and children in general
Ability to think of or do anything for any other person, including herself, particularly if that thinking or doing may mean she is not directly thinking or doing anything about or for her offspring
All those things she said she’d never do when she had children.

“Dignity” has been left off this list as it is well documented and discussed amongst parents and parents to be, and is a given.

This list covers all those behaviours, thoughts and feelings that are rarely, if ever discussed and are excluded from all pregnancy and child-rearing books and expert documentation. Anectdotal evidence shows that the items on this list (and numerous others) are directly connected to the placenta and are removed from your mind and body at the precise moment the placenta is birthed.

Essentially, you have become a cyborg, programmed entirely to be at the beck and call of your new offspring (and any previous offspring you may have produced) and no longer have any ability to think or do outside of these spawn.

Should a programming malfunction have occurred, and you, for example, make a joke, particularly in relation to your children or parenting in general, or, perhaps, lose your temper and yell and/or swear at the aforementioned spawn, you automatically be labelled as a “bad mother”. Discussion of these particular personality traits you should now no longer possess are only ever mentioned in a judgemental fashion by others, generally behind your back, or loudly in a crowded shopping centre by someone who has jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Unfortunately – or fortunately, depending on which side you sit – permanent branding of this title is unlikely, due to lack of ability for others to have it engraved into your now robotic forehead. Therefore others are unable to immediately determine that you are, in fact, a bad parent.

Unless, of course, you deign to mention to someone that you have left your child in the care of someone that is not you so you may partake in something relaxing and purely for yourself, such as a pap-smear, bikini wax, or visit to your psychologist for anxiety and depression counselling.

*Placento Perditio is a totally made up word, don’t bother googling it.

Filed Under: All Articles, General Parenting, Health, Beauty & Exercise, Pregnancy & Babies Tagged With: afterbirth, bad mother, information for parents, real mum

Real Mums Tips: Helping Children With Their Spelling

February 9, 2012 By Mad Cow Leave a Comment

School is back, and we’re all looking for easy, practical ways to help our kids thrive and support them in their learning.

Time constraints, busyness and other factors – such as certain subjects not being your particular forte – can make it difficult … we get it!

Here’s a handy tip when it comes to assising and supporting your child when it comes to “literacy” subjects, including spelling and reading some basic words.

Grab youself a set of magnetic letters (and numbers)

Place them on a magnetic black- or whiteboard. You want this displayed in a high traffic area in your house, where they will see it and have the opportunity to use it often.

The family fridge, therefore, makes the perfect place to keep your magnetic alphabet! Try that.

You could (if you could be arsed) yell out some words and your child/ren can make attempts at spelling the words using the magnetic letters.

Alternatively, let them play and see what words they come up with themselves. You’ll be amazed at the words the know that you didn’t know they knew … and be informed about what they are actually learning at school.

Once they have their spelling sorted, you might even like to add your own words and short phrases and see how they go with reading.

Filed Under: All Articles, General Parenting, School Aged, Tweens & Teens Tagged With: helping children with spelling, real mum, real mums, school and home, supporting children at school

You Might Be An Autism Parent If

January 17, 2012 By Marita 1 Comment

Recently I spotted a tweet from @martin_hilton that really struck a chord:

“#youmightbeanautismparentif When other parents take their sons to football you take yours to therapy”

I’d just come home from a dinner with school parents where there had been talk about the forthcoming terms extra curricular sports. Many of the girls were being enrolled in Netta and their parents were extolling the virutes of team sports.

I was listening thinking it might be something my girls could do this term, an activity that would build ties with their classmates. Then I realised Netta would clash with my 8 year olds social skills group. We’ve spent years looking for a social skills group that fit her needs and having finally found one I’m not ready to give it up. Well never mind I thought we could do AusKick or something instead, but those are on Saturday mornings which would clash with the 6year olds speech therapy or Sunday mornings which is our sacred family day.

See aside from school, which is exhausting in and of itself for kids with autism, there is speech therapy, occupational therapy, social skills group, appointments with paediatricians, psychologists and the swimming lessons I insist on. Some children on the autism spectrum – toddlers even – are exposed to 40 hours a week of therapy, which is a full adult working week.

I can’t do that to my girls, we play, we spend time chasing butterflies, watching their favourite TV show for the millionth time and in between times we go to school and attend therapy.

But the tweet resonated with me. I had fought to keep both girls out of school therapies to one thing a term. Each term we would discuss and debate what therapy was going to help the most and decide on just one. Even with that they were barely coping with their one typical kid extra curricular activity, swimming.

Previous attempts at other extra curricular activities (such as music and scouts) had resulted in tears and tantrums from exhausted children stretched to their limits. Heck even their weekly swimming lessons are a battle towards the end of term and we only persist because they come out of the water happier than when they went in. That is my touchstone of a successful activity, disregard the fights to get there, transitions are always hard, but are we happy at the end, because that makes the battle to leave worthwhile.

After reading the tweet I started wondering who do I want them to do Netta for? Would my girls even enjoy a team sport, more socialising after an exhaustive day of socialising? Is it me, wanting to be the normal family, fit in with other parents at school so I’m not left sitting on the sidelines listening and feeling so desperately alone when the talk about after school activities, playdates, team sports, dancing, music recitals starts up.

Marita blogs at ‘Stuff With Thing’ about life, the universe and Autism.

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Filed Under: School Aged, Tweens & Teens

Tips for Mums: At the pool

October 25, 2011 By Mad Cow 1 Comment

The local swimming pool hosts a plethora of activities for the community. As a result, the diversity of mums and kids attending the pool is high, as is the related diversity of opinion.

Here are a few tips to help mums be safe, stress less and make the experience a nice one for everyone. Oh, and to stop being so damned judgemental.

Toddlers:

Your child doesn’t need a floatation devise that closely resembles a suit of puffy armour and impedes all movement from the mid-thigh up when in the wading pool, and only when you allow them in water that reaches to just above their ankles;
If you insist on containing your child in such a device, there is also no need for you to hover over them as they wander about;
Freaking out and pushing other children (and adults) out of the way with your foot when they come within 1.5 metres of your daughter is also not acceptable behaviour;
Being splashed with water is a common occurrence when in a swimming pool, and it will not kill her;
Perhaps stay home and play with bubble wrap – but only small sheets – and cotton wool, yes?

Older toddlers and pre-schoolers:

The period of 4pm until 8pm is commonly referred to as “after school swimming classes” time. Yes, this means that children bigger than your little Tommy will be there, as will their younger siblings;
Children running around in a swimming pool is called “fun”. You might like to try letting little Molly and Barnaby off your lap and let them experience some;
Splashing occurs when kids have “fun”. Sometimes kids get a drop of water on their face! Hugging your child to your chest and glaring at the 5 year old “offender” and saying “did that naughty boy splash you?” is not helpful;
Perhaps try moving away from the only area that enables children to move from the wading pool to the small, swimming pool. This may lessen the risk of your group being barged through as children try to move from one area to another;
To the one mother in the group whose child is not permanently attached to her, you might actually want to check in on your kid every now and again. And perhaps do something about little Banjo ripping toys out of other kids hands and beating them over the head with their newly acquired booty;
Its ok, you’ll still be able to complete this week’s fresh round of gossip about the mother’s who haven’t attended the group today. I’m betting you could do it under water. Try it. Please.

Older pre-schoolers and Younger school aged kids:

There is a risk you may get wet, but it’s not a bad idea that you actually supervise your kid at some point. Glance up from your latest New Idea every couple of minutes to check they’re still head-above-water. And not pissing some other poor mother off;
Most mums don’t want to listen to the incessant, relentless “watch what I can do” from their own kids. They definitely don’t want to have to endure it from yours;
This would be a great time to look up and check that your kid is still head-above-water.

School Aged Kids:

Sure, they’ve been doing lessons for a while and you’re pretty confident that they’re safe in the water. Problem is, not many others are when they’re around.

Again, look up randomly. You may just be amazed at some of the new skills they’ve learnt, like running through a toddler without feeling a thing;
It may be the lifeguard’s job to intervene when your kid is randomly beating the shit out of another kid with a pool noodle or kickboard, with no regard for everyone else within five metres that he is also annoying, but common courtesy dictates that you make some attempt at looking like you give a fuck;
For the benefit of everyone else, screaming at him to “get the fuck out of the pool, NOW!” is preferred, but we’ll settle for you risking your highly inappropriate for hanging around pools silk shirt and 6 inch heels to drag the little fucker out.

Change Room Etiquette:

If you’re a parent with one child, albeit of the opposite sex to you, of under the age of 5, give the enraged, highly stressed mother of three boys of varying ages priority access to the family change rooms.

There you have it. Follow these tips and you’ll be assured of a relaxed, fun time at the local swimming pool.

Or, at least, I will.

Filed Under: All Articles, General Parenting Tagged With: online parenting advice, real mum, swimming lessons for children

Fussy Eaters

September 2, 2011 By Mad Cow Leave a Comment

Fussy Eating, it seems, is becoming a bit of an epidemic; if not world wide, then at least in the leafy, middle-class suburbs and filtering through to the outer suburbs.

Just about anywhere you find a bunch of mothers gathering and gossiping, really, both on and offline, in fact.

We know you’ve got better things to worry about than what your kid puts in its mouth, unless of course, it is your good bottle of vodka. We know you’ve not thought much about their eating habits. They are, after all, mostly happy, energetic, healthy, within a “suitable” weight range and annoying. Nothing to worry about, right?

Except that you’re feeling ostracised. Your kid’s ok eating habits are causing you to be an outcast amongst your peers. You’re just not fitting in.

Don’t stress. There is hope for you yet, even if your child is a fabulous eater (or, at least, you think he is, because you haven’t actually sat down and kept a diary …), and regardless of their age.

Basically, there are three types of “Fussy eater”:

1. The true fussy eater;
2. The child with an undiagnosed allergy, intolerance or similar;
3. The child with the over-scrutinising, anxious mother who hovers and needs something to worry about.

Children in the first category are so rare as to almost be considered an urban myth. Still, if you like drama, take them to your GP. NOt that they don’t exist, just that its a rare find.

Kids in the second category are no longer “fussy eaters” once they are diagnosed. Of course, if you’d prefer to complain about your kid being fussy with his food, don’t go down the diagnosis path. Simple.

Those in the third category are not “tempted” by ice-cube sushi, featuring smoked salmon and wasabi (fresh, not paste) or asparagus and goats cheese filo pastry puffs. If they are swayed by their Vegemite sandwich taking on the shape of an elephant, then they are technically excluded from points one and two.

(This also demonstrates more a child’s ability to successfully manipulate a situation to their own desires than a dislike of certain foods. But that’s another article altogether.)

Still, you’re feeling left out and just want to fit in. You CAN … in three easy steps.

Step 1. The Assessment

Start scrutinising every morsel of food that works it’s way into your child’s mouth. Keep a diary or some other record. You will quickly discover that their diet is not as diverse, inclusive or accommodating as you first thought. Quite possibly because you have a somewhat – normal - limited(ish) range on your evening meal menu and, by default, some foods just won’t make it to the table.

Therefore, a bunch of foods your child “doesn’t eat” will make the list. Start conversations that go into great deal about all the foods your child doesn’t eat, which is much easier than having to add a great deal more items to your shopping list, and thinking up and playing with new recipe ideas.

Step 2. Everyone has a food

If you feel you need something more substantial in your discussions, point 1 will help you to determine the foods your child genuinely doesn’t like. We all have something, some food or type of food we prefer not to consume. It may even be as simple as sweet versus savoury foods; most people prefer one over the other. And your child is a person, even if the way they eat appears to disagree with that fact.

Once you’ve determined the food/food types they don’t like much, add more of it to the meals you prepare for them. This will give them plenty of opportunity to start up the “I don’t like that” whine, and give you an honest opportunity to say “oh, my kids are such fussy eaters!”

Step 3. Acquired Tastes

If that fails, you can always look at more diverse foods. Some foods, like oysters and truffles (the found-under-trees-and-retrieved-by-trained-pigs kind, not the chocolate kind) have an acquired taste and are not naturally “liked” by most people the first time they try it. You have to give it a go.

These are brilliant foods to introduce to kids, particularly if you, like oyster-haters, refer to them as being somewhat akin to phlegm will ensure they are completely put off and flat our refuse to even try it.

In subsequent conversations with your Other Mother peers, you can join in on the “they just won’t give anything a try” complaint.

The downside of this option is that they may very well acquite the taste over time and deprive you of an opportunity to join in discussions with your friends.

Another trait of children to note, and that can be used to your advantage, is their innate reaction to all things new, and the immediate “I’m not eating that” response before they’ve even really seen what it is.

These strategies to get your own fussy eater can be applied to children of all ages. Once you have them established, you’ll fit right into any and all parenting social group conversation like a politician into a brothel.

Filed Under: All Articles, General Parenting, Recipes & Foody Stuff, School Aged, Tweens & Teens, Toddlers & Preschoolers Tagged With: bad mother, fussy eaters, real mums

Definitions for Real Mums: kid-fusion; kidfusion

July 28, 2011 By Mad Cow 3 Comments

kid-fusion – adjective, verb, noun

1. adj. word used to describe the eclectic colliding of your everyday, household furniture and attempts to make your house look nice, with the array of children’s paraphernalia, including but not limited to toys, books, various items of clothing (both inner and outer wear), school bags, sand-filled shoes and half full cups of milk…

2. v. The act, usually performed (or not) by children of varying ages, of dumping, leaving or otherwise adding their stuff (toys, books, shoes, school bags, half eaten food items) to standard household items, such as couches, coffee tables and TVs
alt. Toys and constructions set up in and around furniture, usually utilising all available floor space in what is generally considered a “living area”

3. n. The mess in your lounge, dining and/or kitchen areas left their by the kids, because they are “still playing with that” or “still eating it”.

This is not to be confused with “kidfusion” (no hyphen) which is defined as:

1. v. The act of referring to one of your offspring by the name of either another of your children, the family dog, the family axolotl, or next door neighbours lawn mowing man.

2. v. The inability to recall when you left your car keys as you walk around with them in your hands, due to kids talking at you, refusing to do what you’ve just asked them 27 times to do and/or the very fact that you have kids in general (also referred to as “mummy brain”)

Filed Under: All Articles, General Parenting Tagged With: normal behaviour in children, raising children, real mums

The 5 Hardest Things You’ll Ever Have To Do As A Mum

October 21, 2010 By Mad Cow 2 Comments

We’ve all heard it: “being a mum is the hardest job in the world” and “We’re not paid enough for this” and … well I won’t go into all the “best thing I ever did” gushy stuff. Suffice to say, there are some things we have to do as a mum that are really hard.

There’s sleepless nights, and dealing with all kinds of bodily excretions without the aid of those blue rubber gloves that paramedics wear. Children who misbehave and answer back and cause their teachers grief, bullying and schoolyard dramas, sibling rivalry, fussy eaters …. argh!

You may also find yourself blurting out “if you do that again, you will not be going for that sleepover / to that birthday party this weekend”; try stopping yourself doing that in a fit of frustrated anger. Worse, you may very well have to carry through with this threat, should the situation continue or deteriorate.

Still, there are some things that are harder than grocery shopping with three kids under five.

Here are the Top Five Hardest things you’ll ever have to do as a mum.

1. Stop yourself from laughing when your child hurts themself doing something really stupid that you’ve just told them not to do, because they’ll hurt themselves. You know, things like polevolting over the end of the bed with the cardboard tube left over from a roll of wrapping paper;

2. Mutter “for fuck’s sake” under your breath when you’ve just asked them to put their shoes on. For the 876th time that morning;

3. Avoid responding with sarcastic retorts, like “sticking a banana up my nose” when they ask you “what are you doing?” and, obviously, you are hanging up the washing / cooking dinner / lying on the couch watching Oprah and drinking wine;

4. Not screaming “you fucking idiot” at the driver who pulls out in front of you and you come this close to hitting him, with your toddler and newborn in the car. The added “precious cargo” is what causes you to scream such things; without them in the car, you may just mumble under your breath. Having kids present makes the potential accident much worse, thereby resulting in a need for yelling at the offender;

5. Thinking of something really clever to explain why you are laughing when your three year old says “you fucking idiot” to your mother-in-law, elderly aunt or local kindergarten teacher. That is hard.

Filed Under: General Parenting Tagged With: parent advice, parenting information, real mums, the best job in the world

Five Years in the Life of a Birthday Cake

August 15, 2010 By Guest Leave a Comment

Making the birthday cake for your child is an expression of love and proves your level of good-motherliness. Doesn’t it?

Ultimately reality kicks in, life kicks in and the birthday cake experiences, from year 1 to year 5 of the life of my first daughter go a long way towards explaining the development of my parenting skills.

Year 1

I make my own chocolate cake, topped with little pink butterflies. It takes hours that could be better spent in bed with a good book, but what kind of mum can’t be arsed making a cake for her child’s first birthday? A bad mum. And I am a GOOD MUM!

Year 2

My second child has just been born, so I buy a packet mix, but I fill the cake with fresh cream and strawberries. I still believe I am a GOOD MUM, but I am a mother of two now, so I am allowed a few breaks. I tell everyone I made it because I am mortified. I think they all believe me.

Year 3

The packet mix I used last year was great, so I do it again. And the icing that goes with it is just like the one I used to make. No one says a thing – good for them.

Year 4

The local bakery does a great sponge and the kids love it, especially the icing.

Year 5

At this point, I discover that no-one eats the cake, so I just ordered a tub full of icing …

Written by Georgia O’Neill, 43-year-old lady, mother of 2 school-aged girls, non-smoker, social drinker, enjoys reading, sleeping and watching her husband do the housework.

Filed Under: General Parenting, Housekeeping, Tips etc, Recipes & Foody Stuff Tagged With: children's birthday cakes, parent advice, real mums

Winter Bugs

June 1, 2010 By Mad Cow Leave a Comment

Ah, ‘tis the season of the rampant viruses, snotty noses, sore throats and days off school. Oh, what joy!

Of course, being Mummies and not doing things by halves, we get the added benefit of dealing with all the viral fun in more ways than one. Hooray!

Nothing like a bit of multitasking to keep us on our toes.

Firstly, there’s all the fun of having to interrupt your daily (or weekly) routine to put up with some hot, whinging, snotty kid who just wants a cuddle. Like a 24 hour one with no break!

There’s always the added benefit, even though you may have to take a day off work, miss your coffee date or just not do the vacuuming that day, that they are soooo sick they’re verging on comatose and you only need to go check them every couple of hours to ply them with more Panadol.

At least you get some peace and quiet at those times. But wait! There’s more.

Yes, more benefit. You don’t need to leave the house for swimming lessons, school pickup, tai kwon do or any of those ‘extra’ things you generally have to do.

If you have more than one child, however, you will discover their complete inability to co-ordinate their illness, forcing you to rely on the kindness of others to do some sort of pickup or drop off, have the “well” child missing swimming lessons to stay at home and annoy everyone else because they’re “bored”, and the inevitable “You love him more than me!”

The fact that “he” is verging on hospital admission is absolutely irrelevant and that argument should never be entered into in order to convince unloved sibling of its complete falsehood.

You do get to repeat exactly the same thing the following week with the extra child. Repeat weekly until all your children have been affected. In some cases, you may even get to repeat the cycle again, with recurring infections. Just in case you thought you had a handle on it.

And what about when Mummy is sick?

Do the kids care? Your husband?

Of course not. This is well outside of their domain or comprehension ability. Don’t even attempt to kid yourself that they may have an inkling of understand. Or compassion. That’s just your ‘flu induced delusional state speaking.

Of course, they won’t baulk at any missed school days, however, your complete incapacitation is completely inconsiderate and you will still be required to entertain them.

This is where you can apply some Real Mums Tips to Winter Bugs:

Implement what you will now refer to as a “Special Mummy Day”, that will never, ever happen again, or until Mummy decides she needs another one;
Let them choose a DVD each. Several each if necessary;
Get some blankets, fill up some water bottles – big ones (yours may contain Vodka, Gin, Scotch or the strong liquor of your choice), plate up some snacks and settle yourself on the couch for the long haul;
If necessary, teach children how to insert and play a DVD. If they know how to already – bonus!!
Lie on couch. Have children seat themselves comfortably around you – with strict instructions that if there is any movement for the next 3 days, they will be removed permanently from their position and forced to sit on the worst chair in the house. Threaten ostracism if necessary;
Do not move until you are fully recovered and/or need to top up your ‘water’ bottle.

If you struggle with this from a guilt perspective, practice this mantra:

“If they can open the Tupperware, they will not starve.”

Just ensure all Tupperware is at a safe child height. You’re in no state to be dashing off to the emergency department just now. Although … it could take your mind off your current condition.

Nothing like a bit of drama to cure a sick Mummy!

(And if your hubby can’t open the Tupperware – then he deserves to starve!)

Filed Under: Health, Beauty & Exercise

Baby On Board

March 31, 2010 By Mad Cow Leave a Comment

In the immortal words of Marge Simpson, holding up a “Baby on board” sign: “Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car.”

The Baby On Board sign has been around for some time now, plastered to the rear windows of cars that carry not only newborns and infants, but also teenagers. Removing the sign is one of those things you’ll eventually get around to doing, but never do.

Although now only purchased by soon-to-be and/or first time mothers or their friends as ironic gifts, the Baby on Board sign actually had a purpose. Their aim was to make paramedics and other emergency personnel aware that, in case of a vehicular accident, that a baby or child is/was on board.

This severely undermines the intelligence of our emergency workers, as surely the presence of a car seat and the multitude of fast food wrappers, yogurt smeared on the back of the seat and Wiggles CD in the car CD player would be a giveaway. If nothing else, the bottle of vodka under the driver’s and/or passenger seat would be a dead giveaway that the presence of a child in the car is a somewhat regular occurrence.

In order for this to work effectively, the sign would have to be removed from the car whenever the baby/child was not travelling in it. Unfortunately, they are left on permanently and well beyond the baby years.

Soon-to-be and new mothers exhibit the signs because they are ever so excited to have a new baby in the car and think the rest of the world is just as excited as they are. There is also the belief that people will drive more cautiously around cars with the sign displayed.

We now know, however, that these signs serve the purpose of warning other drivers.

Take, for instance, the Mum of a brand new baby. Come within a 5k radius of her car and she’s likely to kill you. “Baby on Board – if you even look like you may even remotely come near my car whilst driving, you will die a slow, painful, and horrible death at my hands!”

Then there’s the Mum of a slightly, but not much, older bub. The Mum who is suitably sleep deprived. For your own safely – stay clear. “Baby on Board – I haven’t slept for days!!! Please, Lord, help me. Yes, damn it; it’s why I’m swerving all over the road!! What? Up yours to, matey. Say it again & I’ll ram you! Right??!!”

The School Run Mum is another warning. Ok, the kids aren’t technically “babies” anymore, but let’s face it, who has the time to remove these things. And, for that matter, when do your kids ever stop being your babies? “Baby on Board – get the hell out of my way! If I have to spend another minute in the car with this lot I will go insane! Now, MOVE IT!!”

Oh, and we can’t forget the working Mum – “Baby on Board – I’m late, I’m late, I’m late. Bloody kids! Why can’t they get organised on time and just do what I ask? Urgh!! – GET OUT OF MY WAAAAAYY!”

We do regress a little when our babies become teenagers – “Baby on Board – once again I am sleep deprived. I’m not a bloody taxi, you know. Why can’t someone else drive you there? And bring you home at some stupid hour, for that matter? Hey, great idea, how about you stay home tonight?! No, I’m not angry, I just want some bloody sleep!!!!”

So you see, its not there to inform others that there’s a Baby on Board at all. It’s to warn them that there is some insane, sleep deprived, frustrated and stressed Mum on board – and you had better stay well away! Get your very own “real mum on board” warning sign, totally free, by clicking here

Written by
Mad Cow founder of reality parenting website realmums.com.au, writer, wife, and mum to 3 boys. She regularly transports and delivers her children to various locations via automobile and doesn’t own, never has owned, and has no desire to ever own a Baby On Board sign.

Filed Under: General Parenting, Pregnancy & Babies Tagged With: baby on board, parenting advice, real mums

10 Things You Lose During the After Birth

Real Mums Tips: Helping Children With Their Spelling

You Might Be An Autism Parent If

Tips for Mums: At the pool

Fussy Eaters

Definitions for Real Mums: kid-fusion; kidfusion

The 5 Hardest Things You’ll Ever Have To Do As A Mum

Five Years in the Life of a Birthday Cake

Winter Bugs

Baby On Board

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