Emily Carlisle

Emily Carlisle is a freelance feature writer and copywriter based in the Cotswolds, where she lives with her husband and their three children. Writing mostly for the parenting sector, Emily also blogs at www.morethanjustamother.com, and is working on her first novel. More details about her work can be found at www.allaboutemily.com.

If I have to go to another chavvy children's party I'll scream

By Emily Carlisle, Apr 14, 2012

My five-year-old son is in his first year of primary school, and thus still at the age where parents are expected to chaperone their children at parties. Oh we get the odd one or two where confident hosts take phone numbers and gaily wave us off at the door

I send my four-year-old son to school on the bus by himself

By Emily Carlisle, Feb 13, 2012

My son's school runs a free bus service to collect children from outlying villages. When I heard about it I signed up for a place immediately and my four-year-old boy started his commute the very first week of school.

Leap year babies: My four-year-old twins will be celebrating their first birthday

By Emily Carlisle, Feb 11, 2012

My twin daughters are four years old but this month they will celebrate their very first birthday. The girls are 'leaplings' – people born on February 29, a day which happens only once every four years.

How to look good in bed: The essential guide to post-baby sex

By Emily Carlisle, Feb 1, 2012

Once it became clear to me that no amount of doughnut denial or reluctant jogging was ever going to rectify the trauma delivered to my stomach muscles by bearing two twin pregnancies in quick succession, I decided to look upon the issue more creatively.

There's no excuse for grubby children

By Emily Carlisle, Dec 19, 2011

Before I had children I swore I'd never be one of those mothers who let their kids run around in filthy clothes, with food down their tops and snot congealing in their nostrils. I used to see grubby kids in cafes and wonder how their parents could bear it.