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Empowering Neurodivergent Children: Insights and Support for Mums with Beck McKay

Empowering Neurodivergent Children with Bec Mckay

Listen here… Supporting Neurodivergent Children: Insights from Bec McKay on Beanstalk Mums Podcast In this episode of the Beanstalk Mums Podcast, I have the privilege of speaking with Bec McKay. Bec is a passionate advocate for neurodivergent children and their...

Divorce

How to reduce the cost of divorce in Australia

If you’re going through a divorce or applying for nullification of marriage, you’re likely facing not just legal challenges but financial ones, too. Often requiring the assistance of a law firm. Costs can add up, and paying the full fee...

Positive thinking

Why Single Mums Are the Remarkable Superheroes of Today

Let’s be honest. The life of a single mum can be peppered with self-doubt. Constantly worrying if you’re a good mum or not. Whether you’re doing everything right, it saps your strength. Sort of like Superman’s Kryptonite. Sort of like...

Children

Period talk: helping your child handle menstruation and puberty

Oh, the period talk. Are you ever ready to discuss menstruation with your child? Luckily (or unluckily, it depends on who you ask!), my kids have been brought up with the ‘Period Talk’ since they were about 8 and 10,...

Splitting up

How to stay civil with your ex after divorce

Trying to stay civil with your ex is never easy. I’ve been there juggling schedules, tense financial discussions, and the dreaded shared birthday parties. At one point, I couldn’t imagine how people actually managed to pull this off without losing their...

Parenting

Free-range parenting: Does raising free-range kids work?

Remember those long summer days as a kid, where you’d disappear with your friends until the sun started to set, only to rush home when you heard your mum yell from the porch? No smartphones, no GPS trackers, just pure...

Divorce

Joint and sole application for divorce: What is the difference?

Applying for a divorce is the easy part of a separation … that is, depending on whether you file a Joint Application or Sole Application. Really, whether you go through it together with your future former spouse or all by...

Halloween

20 Easy Halloween food (Recipes and treats)

Halloween is just around the corner, and if you’re anything like me, you’re juggling costumes and decorations and trying to figure out how to make something spooky in the kitchen without losing your sanity. As single mums, we’ve already got...

Halloween

15 Spooky and easy Halloween craft ideas for kids

Can you believe it’s that time of year again? Halloween is lurking around the corner, and I can practically hear the little witches and wizards getting excited. But what if they are no longer into gluing cotton balls onto white...