
If you tell me you love every moment of every day with your kids, I’m sorry but I’d have to call you a liar.
I love being a mum. I love my kids. But now that they’re all well into their school years I feel like I’ve reached an entirely new domain which really makes me miss those baby days filled with endless cuddles and slobbery kisses all over my face.
I even miss those sleepless nights huddled up close whilst breastfeeding in the wee hours of the morning. It was hard at the time, but the thing is, it hasn’t gotten any easier as my kids have reached school age. That’s my truth, anyway.
Team Mamamia confess: The time I was a bad mum. Post continues below.
The first few years with a baby and toddler I felt supported, like every parenting resource was either easily accessed in the community, readily available at bookshops or online, or thrown at you by general parenting gurus/know-it-alls.
But when it came to having tweens and teens, I felt far less prepared for the daily parenting grind than I did sitting in the hospital room with all of my newborn babies (being ever so gratefully mollycoddled by pretty much everyone I interacted with).
That’s why I’m sharing the 10 things I think parents of school age kids should be warned about and adequately prepared for. They’re the very things I loathe, and I learned about them the hard way: