Muddling Through Motherhood

This morning, in the gym, I noted a sign saying something along the lines of “in order to save paper, please use a towel to wipe down the equipment”. I then watched an employee of the leisure centre polish the gym equipment with a large quantity of said paper towel.

Today I’ve been reading about Unconditional Parenting and some related parenting methods. I should be working so I’ll just note them here so I’ll get round to reading them eventually. And maybe you can read them too and discuss them with me
Punished by rewards?
The Risks of Rewards
Taking Children Seriously

Typically for me, once I get an idea in my head, if I’m going to go for it, I do it quickly. So, Rowan has started nursery already.
Last week he had 4 settling in sessions. He was as expected – plenty of tears at dropoff and pickup – and a couple of times [...]