Monday, 27 October 2014

The Best Gift a Mother Can Give Her Child

Nope, not breast milk. Not any new-fangled educational toy. Not expensive enrichment brain-boosting classes either. The Best Gift a Mother Can Give Her Child is... a Happy Mother. It sounds simple but it is incredibly hard to do. I learnt it the hard way. And like the last-in-class student, I keep having to re-learn it! When my little girl was born, I thought that by sacrificing my rest/hobbies/me-time/enjoyment,  I was loving her. The resulting stay-at-home-monster that was created soon taught me otherwise. I wondered why I was turning into an frazzled, irritable maniac. So much for...