Parenting.
5 Ways To Support Children’s Mental Health: Children’s Mental Health Week
In January 2021, Children in England didn’t return to school after the Christmas break. Back then, we were living in our third national lockdown and home-schooling again. When my children where much younger we were indoors for a considerable amount of time. I was...
An Interview with Katie O’Donoghue: author of The Little Squirrel Who Worried
I am passionate about mental health and emotional intelligence, especially for children. So, it’s with pleasure I’m thrilled to bring this new author interview to you. Katie O’Donoghue is the author of 'The Little Squirrel Worried', a picture book for children age 4-8...
Real Talk About Parental Mental Health: tune into the Zombiemum podcast hosted by Laura Dockrill (AD Feature)
My son was 13 months old, when I was diagnosed with postnatal depression. It felt like I was walking through a dense fog where sleep and wakefulness merged. I was running on autopilot, ‘zombie-like’. Then, I spotted a blog by an anonymous writer; there was a name for...
Mixed Heritage Family Life in England: part 3
It seems like many moons ago since I first met Maria, my namesake. We met at a blog event and have been following each ever since. I enjoy seeing what she gets up to with her family, when they are out and about. It became clear to me that we enjoy doing similar...
Mixed Heritage Family Life in England: part 2
Chelsea is my sister from another mother. If you have been following my journey over the years you will have seen her name pop up from time to time. She's cut my hair. She's taken pregnancy photos of me. We've baby sat for each other and cried of SATC movies in cinema...
3 Tips For First Time Mums: living in the time of the Coronavirus
Although all the world is talking about is the Coronavirus, other aspects of life are still going on. Babies are being born every day. Now that everyone is either social distancing or self-isolating first time mums will not have the level of visitors they might...
3 Ways To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Children: a parent’s perspective
There has been much talk in the news about mental health. #Bekind is everywhere. Question: How do we make the mental shift to look after of our wellbeing and show empathy when needs be? I’m child of the 70’s raised in the 80’s. During those decades, the practice was...
TIGERTALES.
Hi! I’m Maria. My family and I live in London but I’m originally from Trinidad, West Indies. My beloved and I got married in 2006. He’s Chinese/Italian. When we decided to increase our family, the first inevitable question was ‘what the child would look like?’... [ + ]
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