BY JESS MOUNEIMNE How often have you as a working mom with a day-care, nanny or sick child dilemma, had your husband juggle his day around to help out? Probably not that many times? We live in a catch 22 era where women are expected to be ‘modern’ enough to contribute financially BUT are still [Read More...]
BY JESS MOUNEIMNE People are tactless- women especially and somehow they seem even more tactless when talking to mom with a baby. I remember this with my first child, but somehow I must have gotten so much more sensitive since then because these days very rarely does a trip to Woolies not end with me [Read More...]
BY JESS MOUNEIMNE With so many different personalities on the playground, both adult and child, it’s no wonder books like ‘Queenbees and Wannabess’ and ‘Queenbee Moms & Kingpin Dads’ were written. Since the publishing of the book, bloggers around the world have debated whether these cliques really exist and whether our mommy types can be so easily boxed. According to [Read More...]
BY JESS MOUNEIMNE Thankful Thursday is not something that has been done all that often on Mommy Matters but we should be doing more of it. It is important to take a moment and recognize the things that are good in your life-and pay homage to the challenges others face. There is no doubt that [Read More...]
BY ABBI SCHUTTE They say people always think that the grass is greener on the other side but to be honest, it isn’t always so. There are many married moms out there that might as well be single moms for all that the fathers care. My Mom was such a mother. I have watched her [Read More...]
BY SALLY BOTTGER From a galaxy not too far off Octomoms have been infiltrating our homes and businesses by taking over the work sector all the while raising a family. Don’t be fooled as they look perfectly normal but underneath that ‘human’ exterior lies a Martha Stuart on steroids. This incredible creature has no bounds [Read More...]
BY Ellen Seidman Motherhood is about unconditional love, sacrifice and selflessness. We all know that. And yet, there are times when you gaze at your kids and think… Do you realize how much of me I give to you, and what I’ve given up for you? Do you realize how many hours in a day [Read More...]
BY JESS MOUNEIMNE ‘They’ say, it takes a village to raise a child, but when you’re village seems to be filled with childless miseries, it could be asking way too much. I don’t expect childless people to understand children, or women with children for that matter. There has and will always be a distinctive division between the haves and the have not’s where kids are concerned, but I must have [Read More...]
It takes all types to be a mom and these types certanly reflect in what we choose to share on social media platforms. Take a look: The Do It All Mom Juggles her kids, her husband, maybe a career… but definitely a triathalon, home cheesemaking and sixteen fundraisers just this month. Bizarrely, the way she [Read More...]
by LEE SANDWITH Before I became a mother I felt compelled to somehow disassociate myself from any involvement of being like other mothers – or those mothers, as some of my friends referred to them. “Lee, if you become one of those mums who starts a ‘mummy blog’ that goes on and on about being [Read More...]