My column recently published in The Catholic Weekly. “Unless you become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven,” this was the Gospel I heard two Sundays ago while Isaac, our two-year old, slept warm and heavy on my lap. I get it. Toddlers are so unassuming, so forgiving, so transparent, so…
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There’s No Such Thing as a Non-Working Parent
Article published recently in The Catholic Weekly. On my blog recently I referred to ‘non-working parents’ and to a school day I spent at home with my young sons as one of my ‘non-working’ days. But of course, while I had not been in any income-producing employment I had worked a lot on that…
Be a more peaceful parent – know thyself
Image by Glen Carrie. Know thyself. This famous maxim was originally inscribed into the temple in ancient Greece dedicated to the God, Apollo, in Delphi. The importance of acquiring self-knowledge is part of the human race’s earliest and most enduring philosophical tenets. St Teresa of Avila wrote that nothing helped a person to grow…
10 things I wish I knew before being a parent
My big girl is turning 10, which means I’ve been a mum for 10 years and I can’t believe it’s been that long when I often feel I don’t know anything and I’m just winging it by instinct. If I were to sum up in one word how I feel about my eldest daughter it…
Marilyn Rodrigues 