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Of the Gradual Momentous Love of Motherhood
This blog post was originally published on December 18th 2020 on Floating the Boat. Nothing can be paralleled with the love a mother has for her child. This is general knowledge, isn’t it. It is also one of the reasons I wanted to be a mother – I wanted to experience this ravishing, consuming, making-you-die kind of…
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The Fear of Proximity – A Civilised Problem
This blog post was originally published on December 10th 2020 on Floating the Boat. The minute babies are involved, everyone has an opinion – and most people dump them unwanted on you. While I am sure most people simply seek to help, the overwhelming avalanche of information can make it hard to find YOUR way…
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A Guide to a Chill Christmas Break
When I heard “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas” for the first time this year, one line stood out like never before: “And Mum and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.” So far, this line had never been relevant, but with my two kids now in nursery and kindergarten, the…
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Why I Want to Play More with my Children
“Mummy, can we play?” I get this question a lot. Play dollhouse, do a puzzle, play mermaids, colour something in, play dump trucks (that’s my son asking), etc. etc. I don’t know why, but often, this question causes me to squirm. Because, no, I actually don’t want to play a lot of the time, at…
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On Forgetting October and Getting Back to Work
Hello everyone and welcome back to Mama Bear Tales! With this year inching towards the end again (can you believe it?!), I thought about my plans I had for this year. One of these plans was to write a blog post every month, and apart from taking a short summer hiatus, I adhered to it.…
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On Settling In and Mental Load
Autumn is coming, and with it the settling in period at Finn’s Kinderkrippe (nursery school). I found the settling in period with Lily last year in Kindergarten immensely stressful, as she wasn’t dealing so well with it and I was constantly torn between the notion of having her “push through” and the instinct to take…
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The Misconceptions of Gentle Parenting
I recently received a message from an acquaintance telling me how she tried to gentle-parent, but as her child simply misbehaved in extraordinary ways, she started punishing her child with time-outs – the only thing that helped, according to her. To be abundantly clear, this blog post is not about shaming this mother. Or mothers…
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Of Your Needs and Mine
I am currently writing this from a holiday flat in Burgenland, Austria, sitting on a sofa by myself and feeling guilty. Yet again. Let me back up a little. My husband got the opportunity to work in their Vienna office for a few days, and we decided to tag along for a mini-holiday, as my…
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6 Tips to Brush Your Child’s Teeth
If there are to be some unanimously difficult topics surrounding childcare, I reckon it would be sleep; how other family members tend to sometimes interfere; and brushing your child’s teeth – at least I am yet to meet a parent who hasn’t complained about all the three above. Brushing your child’s teeth can be a…
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8 Habits that Make Parenting Easier for Me
These eight parenting tips helped me become a quieter and calmer parent and enjoy our family time together.
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