“No Darling, Mummy’s Too Tired”
I often think about how my children will remember me when they have grown up and left home. Or how...
Articles by Liz Fraser
Finding Time for Yourself
Being with your family in your spare time can be just as important and valuable as time by yourself to...
Ever Feel Like a Circus Act?
There’s one thing all jugglers know; if you juggle enough balls for long enough, you will eventually drop one. Or...
Mother’s Guilt
When a baby is conceived, three things happen: a new life is created, the world instantly becomes filled with buggies...
Stress: The Biggest Modern Health Problem
Once upon a time, ‘stress’ was something suffered by high-flying, workaholic traders on the New York Stock Exchange, chefs, and...
Bye-bye Wonder Woman… Hello 21st Century
Once upon a time (actually in 1941, if you really want to know) a cartoon series was created about a...
Romance for the Frazzled Parent
Valentine’s Day… that special, happy day of imposed romance, compulsory tokens of love and affection and donations to the card...
New Year, New Family Relationships and Care
New Year always heralds that dreaded thing; the New Year’s Day hangover. But worse, still, than a glass of Alka...
Avoid the Tipping Point at Christmas
With Christmas around the corner, you may just be feeling the stress rising. But I have a secret about Christmas,...
A Busy Time Ahead with Baby No. 2
There’s one thing all parents of more than one child know and that is that having only one was a...
Summer Holiday Survival
With the school holidays now in full swing, the bank account and the fridge both almost empty, and many of...
Household Chores – Should We Pay the Kids?
Once upon a time, children were sent up chimneys and told not to come down again until it got too...
Lessons From a Teenage Bedroom (Re)decoration.
I have dreaded many words coming from the mouths of my children; “Mum, meet my new boyfriend, he’s in a...
Sometimes It Can Be All About Me, Me, Me… and Hubby.
There are many untruths told about parenting. ‘Breastfeeding makes the weight drop off!’ Nope. ‘When they go to school you...
The Date-Night Revival
Being a parent is a very time-consuming, tiring, busy, unpaid job. And that’s often to be managed on top of...
Looking out for the elderly during the winter months
The winter months are not the easiest. For any of us. It’s dark, it’s cold, it’s wet. Often it’s dark,...
Top Tips On How to Maintain a Smooth Wake-Up Routine
As if we haven’t had to deal with enough in trying to get our children to go to sleep, just...
Every Stage of Childhood Comes with Challenges for Parents
In ‘As You Like It’, Shakespeare wrote one of his most frequently quoted passages, about the Seven Ages of Man,...
What It Takes to Have a Fuss-Free Christmas
Christmas – that delightful time of year when we bankrupt ourselves again by buying hundreds of presents for people we...
Entertaining the Family on Christmas day
Christmas is a time of joy, fun, relaxation and celebration. And more stress, noise, chaos, exhaustion, expense and arguments than...
Childhood Memories in the Digital Age
I recently went to stay for the weekend at my parents’ house. This is always a nostalgic affair for me...