Mama Bear Tales

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  • Update: Travelling with Children

    Welcome back, dear readers. June has passed in a blurry of going on holiday and wrapping up work for the long summer break – which I am so ready for. The past weeks have been so hot, up to 36 degree Celsius, and I’m not working well under heat. So when the rain came a…

  • The (Gentle) Parent Trap

    When typing in the hashtags #gentleparenting or #attachmentparenting in the search engine of Instagram, they yield over 800.000 and 600.000 hits, respectively. When you are on social media, it is almost impossible to not stumble upon post after post of “free-range” children, Montessori playrooms and ways to gentle-parent your child. It almost seems like a…

  • 5 Tips for a Good Breastfeeding Start

    This blog post was originally published on my other blog floatingtheboat.co.uk Breastfeeding is a natural process in women – and, yet, many, many women struggle with it, especially in the beginning. I did, too. I breastfed my daughter Lily for sixteen months and am now also breastfeeding my son, Finn. While breastfeeding came without any…

  • Our Family Life List for a Slow Living Summer

    I am writing this while being in Tuscany, the cicadas chirping, the sun setting over the vineyards, and the dry heat closing in. Summer is here – if we like it or not. Those who know me know that I don’t particularly like summer – the heat, the insects, the heat, the traffic, the heat,…

  • New Beginnings

    One of my resolutions for 2024 was writing a blog post per month. While that doesn’t sound like very much, on top of caring for two little ones, easing back into the workforce and living life, it was something I always failed to do. I have been blogging for a long time. My blogging journey…