the parent hood.
discovered that I wasn’t the first person to have asked: ‘how can I tell if my baby loves me?’ Sometimes I think the generations of mothers before us, without a world’s worth of knowledge and advice at their fingertips, had it easier.
dedicating whole evenings to losing myself down a Facebook sinkhole—those glorious, time-wasting nights that start off by looking up an old school mate and end up, hours later, sprawled on the couch scoffing liquorice bullets and browsing the profiles of people you don’t know and the photos of their wedding in Thailand.
There’s a well-told story in my family about the day my sister dropped my other sister—who was a baby at the time—out the window. Without any signs of injury, I’m sure mum just dusted them both off and got on with her day.
Perhaps my habit will subside when my son is old enough to go online himself.
She didn’t have an iPad with a speedy internet connection to research concussion symptoms or the signs of attempted sororicide. Even if she did, she wouldn’t have had the time to use it.
‘My mum keeps Googling things about me. Normal?’
What might his first search be?
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Me and my other siblings—and there’s six of them—turned out to be well-rounded and perfectly intact people. Bad habits are hard to kick, but surely this can’t go on forever?
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I much prefer spending my time on the internet looking up pictures of Bradley Cooper hanging out with his mum, or
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