Josie Golden
Features writer
Josie Golden is a journalist with more than 20 years experience in newspaper reporting and feature writing. She has written for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, women's magazines and other regional interest publications. A working mum of three, she spends her time trying to juggle a zillion different tasks - but don't we all?
Pack it in! Are you in holiday packing chaos?
Just a couple of days left before we go on holiday – and you can tell, by the absolutely hideous clothes we are all tramping around in.
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When your child becomes the babysitter
That will teach me to be so smug and self-satisfied. There I was, bobbing along in a bubble of my own, and congratulating myself on the fact that at long last we felt our eldest child was old enough to be left in charge of his two younger siblings on the odd Saturday night.
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When is it time to stop the birthday parties?
When is it time to draw the line at birthday parties, and say "that's enough!"? My friends and I are in disagreement. I say stop the whole class parties at age eight.
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Help! My children are sabotaging my social life
Please tell me I'm not alone – I suspect I'm not – but is your social life being increasingly ruined by the social lives of your children?
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Why homemade Christmas presents are the best
Remembering my childhood Christmases a sudden thought came to me; this year my children and I are going to make the vast majority of those Christmas presents we give, and we too will put time aside in the Christmas holidays to visit Godparents, aunts and uncles and deliver them personally.
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