Articles Tagged: motherhood

Cool as a cucumber: Video shows mum staying calm to comfort her child during earthquake...but is it real?

By Liz Stansfield, Mar 30, 2012

A YouTube video of a mum apparently staying calm and holding her child through an earthquake is causing a stir online

Did your relationship with your mother change once you became a mum?

By Glynis Kozma, Mar 5, 2012

My mum always insists that I phone her as soon as I am home. Sometimes she tries to press food onto me, even though the journey, which I've been doing for over 30 years, is under four hours.

Things I thought I would love about being a mum - and the reality

By Ursula Hirschkorn, Jan 13, 2012

How did you picture motherhood pre-children? I know my imaginings were always in soft focus with me cast in the role of perfect mummy. I would be kind, patient, loving and my children would be clean, obedient and charming.

Staying friends once you have children

By Jackie Cosh, Dec 18, 2011

Before I became a mum I used to notice how the mums in the office had social lives which revolved around their children and women they had met through their children.

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal pregnant with second baby

By Liz Stansfield, Nov 29, 2011

American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is expecting her second baby with husband, Peter Sarsgaard

Ronni Ancona: My children don't think I'm funny but I think they're hilarious

By Kyrsty Hazell, Nov 19, 2011

Parentdish caught up with the busy comedienne to talk about how she's not the only 'funny' one in the family and how having children has changed her ...

Big Mouth for Mummy: Goodbye dear readers

By Felicity Quigley, Sep 25, 2011

Well the time has come for me to bid you all adieu, my dear, anonymous readers. My darling Oscar is now officially a toddler, no longer a baby.

The mouths of babes

By Pip Jones, Aug 30, 2011

There are some things about motherhood that will always remain as primitive as conception itself. Other than protecting our offspring from roaming predators (or rather these days moving vehicles, open first-floor windows, child-targeted advertising and so on) our ONE job, as a mother, is to ensure our children are fed. And it becomes, without you even realising it, quite obsessional.