One of the first questions that many single mothers have on becoming the sole head of a household is ‘how am I going to cope as a single mum?’. Often, the biggest part of this challenge is financial. If, like me, you’re entering single motherhood after a separation, the chances […]
Tag: Parenting
Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato With Avocado Salad
If you, like me, run out of dinner ideas pretty quickly in days and weeks filled with working and mumming, you’ll always be on the lookout for a quick and healthy dinner recipe. This baked sweet potato with avocado salad one from The Detox Kitchen is a real winner. Easy-peasy […]
Dear Single Mums, In Case You Need to Read This Right Now
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a pretty shit day. I know, without a shadow of a doubt, a lot of you will have had a worse one. These are strange and unprecedented times. Dark, scary and unsettling times. As a single mum, the thought of further isolation […]
CBeebies is my Co-Parent: Don’t Break Up Our Family
It’s the top trump card for BBC chairman Sir David Clementi. His ‘OK kids, if this behaviour doesn’t stop, I’m cancelling Christmas’. Every time the license fee is under threat or the BBC is rattled, we’re reminded that it could mean the end for CBeebies. Forget BBC One, sod the […]
Guest Post: Single Parent Stigma & Why It Shouldn’t Exist
Thanks so much to Jude Peppis-Clay (@gluingcheese) for this guest post on single parent stigma, and why we need to turn this negative stereotype on its head… When I decided to leave my husband in 2017, one thing was on my mind. I would become a single parent. We cobbled […]
The Single Mother Project
When you hear the phrase ‘single mother’, what do you think of? (I’m not making you say it out loud, you over-sensitive lefty, you can be honest.) It’s not good, is it? Despite the fact that 25% of all families in the UK are single parent families (yes, that’s 1 […]
13 Things My Son Will Never Understand About My Teenage Life
OK, there are a LOT of things about my teenage life that I wouldn’t share with my son, but there are also a lot of things he just couldn’t understand if he tried. They all relate to technology. Writing ‘TB’ at the end of a text message so the person […]
7 Things in my H&M Kids Shopping Basket
To buy or not to buy? The Mother Edit shops the best of the high street, so you don’t have to… The best kidswear clothes in H&M right now… 2-pack T-shirts, £9.99 These natty Jungle Book prints are fierce and fun. Bomber jacket, £17.99 I can just imagine Jack bombing […]
The Mother Edit: Mother’s Daily Must-Have
Each day I bring you the one thing that’s top of my shopping list. Or pinned on my Pinterest lust-list. Or screen-shotted every two minutes on Instagram. From the cutest new kids clothes (expect a lot of toddler boy buys) to cute mum-worthy fashion buys and all the accessories and […]
19 Highlights from my Bugaboo Paris Trip
A week ago I whizzed over to gay Paris with Bugaboo for the launch of their latest art collaboration with Niark1. You know this already, as I’m sure you’ve read my post on the team-up here, but as a reminder, the design and mobility brand has got a new collection […]