The Cityparents Blog

This morning we enjoyed some glimmers of normality (and a quiet house) as our second child was welcomed back to his primary school. Lockdown with two parents working from home, two extrovert pri... Read More

For almost 5 years now, I have struggled to reconcile being the mother my daughters deserve, and the daughter my aging parents deserve. Not to mention everything else on my little life's spectrum... Read More

I had been jotting down ideas for this blog with lockdown in mind. My husband and I are working from my mother’s house in the land that high-speed broadband forgot where we are locking down to ... Read More

Emma Bradley, parent, qualified teacher and founder of blog  Emmaand3 , explains how she’s guiding her three children through this tough time at home and shares her top tips for home scho... Read More

Lockdown has been an experience to remember. As it threw people out of their usual routine, I’ve been able to notice a number of interesting and positive changes. In eight years of living in my... Read More

I’ve been learning a thing or two about myself this lockdown. Beginning with the fact that, when initially facing the prospect of Armageddon, my priorities were to stock up on tahini, scen... Read More

Can you look back on this as a scared time to treasure rather than just survive? Child – “How old are you, Grandpa?” Grandpa – “I’m 81, dear.” ... Read More

My name’s Linda and I feel really anxious. This is a new experience for me and I find it hard to admit. It's also hard to admit that until recently I'd never really understood... Read More

Remember my first blog for the year where I said I was aiming to relaunch my career in 2020 as I had felt stuck for a while especially since having my kids? Well, that definitely isn’t going to... Read More

Things were starting to go better in 2020, my mum is home and stable, my brother’s chemo was underway and he was doing ok on it, and I had my surgery at the end of February to remove the last o... Read More

I started writing this blog a few weeks ago and it was originally about the amazing #MotherWorks photography exhibition ( www.wearemoi.net ), created by Fiona Freund.  #MotherWorks compares... Read More

When I was invited to join the team of blog writers for Cityparents, I thought I’d be able to write some light hearted observations about the day to day juggling (always juggling) of work and f... Read More

As I write, the world around us is changing daily, and we’re all navigating a new, very insular and yet much more intense daily life. Things have been changing so fast. In what feels almos... Read More

How do you ensure an anxious child follows a healthy diet? And what if the anxiety is related to food itself? These are the questions that I have had to ask myself in the past few years, since my son... Read More

Like me, I suspect you’ve hitched a ride on the coronavirus pendulum recently – swinging between complacency and obsessive panic, before balancing out somewhere in the region of business ... Read More