Tag: Motherhood
Katie Hopkins – Sociopath? or Honest Woman?
Katie Hopkins – a controversial TV reality star in the UK – was recently published on Femail claiming that she outsources parenthood to a team of five nannies. The secret to being a happy mother? Hire five nannies to do the boring bits My son’s school sports day takes place a few weeks from now. [...]
Forgiving your Mother
I’ve cultivated anger against the way I was brought up by my adoptive mother and against her for so long that I’ve come to live with it. But I have reached a place in my life where it no longer serves me and indeed threatens to harm my children and my future. I want to forgive. [...]
Parental Paradox
Today Freya when I arrive at school, you are playing outside with the other children. I see you hiding behind a screen and popping out like a jack in the box to the repeated amazement and delighted applause of your teacher. ‘Ta-dah’! You do it 5 times before you spot me. When you see me, [...]
The Manipulative Mother
When I tell people I have had three scholarships in my life, 2 academic and 1 music they are impressed. When I tell them I studied piano for 12 years but stopped short of Grade 8 (the highest grade), they are impressed. When I say I won every form prize in my junior school, won [...]
Sex during Pregnancy…sacred or sinful?
If there’s a taboo around, I like to write about it. Maybe you’ve noticed that. I believe that taboos allow destructive tendencies to flourish and pain to be driven inwards for fear of reprisal. And when pain lives inside people it comes out…in addiction, in violence and in cruelty. If you’re going to combat pain, [...]
