iBlog Friday is our weekly roundup of the best of Aussie parenting bloggers. This week Aussie mums talk about extreme toddler teething and toddler taming.
Joanna Lamb of Joanna Writes Here gets a surprising insight into what parenting is like for her mother in her post Mother, don’t smother.
I try to put myself in my mother’s shoes, and I think it must be a hard habit to break, mothering someone. How do you ease away from taking care of someone, gradually letting them go and learning to understand that they aren’t a child anymore? And while you never stop being a parent to your child, where is the line where you must pull back and let them be their own person?
Read the rest of Joanna’s post here.
Louisa Simmonds of My Midlife Mayhem learns a relationship lesson from a pavlova in her post Mastercheat Cooking: Pavlova For Dummies.
You see, over the past twelve months I have been forced to watch the old man shed a few kilos whilst goading me daily with his newly toned, sexy physique (his words).What can I say? Marriage is hard enough without your husband losing weight, especially in the unorthodox way he has done it.
And the changes to his body have caused him to behave in quite a peculiar fashion, particularly when he has his shirt off. He has this tendency to thrust his hairy, middle-aged chest out into my face first thing in the morning and say things like ‘just look at this body, Lou’.
