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Silent Sunday

August 7, 2011 By Ellen

Filed Under: family, mummy, photography, Silent Sunday

Put the lid on the toothpaste tube… just once

January 14, 2011 By Ellen

One of the things from the – seemingly endless – list of things they don’t tell you when you become a parent, is there will be some things your children will not learn, no matter what. Instead, you will repeat requests for the apparently simple tasks to be done again and again. You will also […]

Filed Under: boys, housework, in my day, manners, mother, motherhood, mummy, toilet

My name is mummy… please use it

July 9, 2010 By Ellen

Mum, love, mummy, guapa (though not recently), Nell, madam, honey, Mrs Panther, wife, lady, Ms Arnison, boss, Ellie, mama, Ellen Mary, hen, Auntie Ellen, babe and, sometimes, simply Ellen. These are just a few of the things I’ve answered to over the years. And having a name as apparently complicated as Ellen, I’ve also been […]

Filed Under: aspergers, mummy, names

just a mum…

August 1, 2007 By Ellen

Instant karmaFeminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking. Polly Toynbee in the Guardian, January 19, 1987Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Filed Under: equality, feminism, Marx, motherhood, mummy, Polly Toynbee, today's thought

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