Coming Clean
The strange thing about the internet, and particularly blogging, is that it’s often easier to disclose your deepest, darkest feelings to a world wide web full of strangers than to the people you’ve known all…
Baby-led Weaning: First Foods & Favourites
Following my last Caterpillar Corner post – Six Reasons To Love Baby-led Weaning – today I wanted to share some of our favourite recipe ideas and on-the-go snacks, and review Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett’s…
Book Review: A Monster Ate My Mum by Jen Faulkner
I’m reviewing another picture book for this week’s Butterfly Book Club but this one is a little different – and incredibly special. On the surface, A Monster Ate My Mum seems like a fairly ordinary story about a…
How I Cope As The Mum Of A Picky Eater – Guest Post by Mandy at Sneaky Veg
Thanks for all the kind words and support you’ve shown last week’s guest blogger – and huge thanks to you Josie for contributing on such an important topic. This week I’m really excited to have…
The Evolution of the Post Baby Relationship
There are so many things I’ve struggled to adjust to since becoming a parent – managing my frustration, dealing with tiredness, learning some patience (disclaimer: I haven’t cracked any of these yet!) and riding the…
Book Review: Supermarket Gremlins
Caterpillar loves the supermarket. I can get away with calling a trip to Asda a ‘treat’. So when I saw that this book involved supermarkets and gremlins I knew instantly it would be a hit. He also…
Parenting with Anxiety – Guest Post by Josephine Ruggieri
I couldn’t be happier with the response to this series so far, thanks so much for everyone who read and commented on Min’s post last week. We have lots of really wonderful writers lined up…
Six Reasons to Love Baby-led Weaning
Inspired by my best friend’s success with Baby-Led Weaning this is the method I chose when Caterpillar was six months old. Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett are the go-to experts on the technique and their books helped…
Book Review: Cat’s Colours by Airlie Anderson
Many of you seemed to really enjoy my recent post Favourite Books for Toddlers, and since both Caterpillar and I love reading so much I’ve decided to start a regular book review feature. This week we’ve…
A Very Big Parenting Challenge – Guest Post by Single Mum Speaks
Thank you so much to Elizabeth for kicking off the My Mountain series last week, and thanks to all of you for reading and for your lovely, supportive comments. This week we have Min from Single…