Since creating this blog and putting a few posts out, I have received a number of messages from other mums, thanking me for sharing my honest experiences and thoughts on parenting.

I am thankful that my best friend from school (some 25 years ago) and I are still connected on social media, despite living at opposite ends of the country now, and having not seen one another in probably 20 years. Even after all that time of just occasionally liking each other’s Facebook posts, we’ve just properly reconnected over the subject of… you’ve guessed it… parenting!

Clare has a 6 year old boy, is happily married and works 4 days a week. She has given me permission to share what she messaged me:

“Well done Ames, such a good read and reassuring! Even with my 6 year old it never gets easier, just one thing gets replaced with another challenge. We would never change it for the world, but definitely when struggling we should reach out, and you never know, just talking it over normalises what we worry about or struggle with in that moment… There is so much about parenting we don’t know how to navigate, even with all the Googling and books in the world, the best thing is support like this, just normalising it.”

The purpose of this blog is to do just that. To say ‘you’re not alone’.

When I hear someone describe their day, or tell me about that morning’s challenge, or wax lyrical about how well something had gone with their little one, it strengthens me simply knowing that other people are experiencing similar things to me!

I hate the thought of parents, both mums and dads, feeling isolated, or that they must be doing something wrong for their baby to be going through a particular thing.

Let’s stand together, strengthen each other, support each other, and share our stories… I mean, we all need a good cry or a good laugh sometimes, right?