“BLACK HAWK DOWN! BLACK HAWK DOWN!” That’s what Busy-And-Important-Husband likes to yell after me when I run to one of the kids after they’ve taken a tumble.You see. I am a helicopter parent; a self-confessed Chinook of the parenting world. Hovering over my children waiting to swoop down should anything untoward happen to them.I know. I know. There really is no need to give me the ‘wrapping them … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
Empathy – an unpopular trait
In the past 24 hours since learning about the tragic death of the nurse involved in the 2DayFM royal prank phone call I’ve been disappointed by some of the opinion articles or tweets pointing to that poor nurse’s mental health. A mental health that we know absolutely nothing about, but clearly many of us are assuming must have been unusually ‘fragile’.I consider my own mental health to be … [Read more...]
Dumb mum
I am a mother; therefore I must be dumb. Well, that’s what everyone keeps trying to tell me, right?I got my first hint when I returned to work after becoming a mother.“Don’t call yourself a ‘working mum’. They won’t take you seriously. You have to be professional at work and calling yourself a ‘working mum’ isn’t very professional,” was the advice given to me by a senior female executive.Followed … [Read more...]