Lunch Lady is a quarterly keepsake full of meaningful content, inspiring family stories, easy DIY, stacks of recipes plus funny relatable opinion pieces about the ups and downs of raising childrwn. It's a magazine where parenting is not taken too seriously but a balanced approach to family life is.
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Fun cakes prep
Some More!
d-i-y candles.
Where the wild things are. • Writer, muso and identical-twin mum Alexa Wilding never imagined she’d become a cancer mum–twice. As she works to support her son Lou’s ongoing recovery, Alexa shares her journey of maddening surrender, discovering joy and finding out what really matters.
How to talk so kids will listen + listen so kids will talk... • Struggling to help your kids deal with ? their feelings? Who isn’t! Here are ten (extremely helpful) tips from one of the all-time best selling parenting books: How To Talk So Kids Will Listen.
Meet naomi • When author, TEDx speaker, business owner and mother-of-three Naomi Kissiedu-Green realised the lack of diversity shown in children’s books, she went on a mission to create her own.
The domino effect
Viva la domino
The Rules of the Game.
Dinner in 5 ! Five super-quick veggie dinner recipes • Author, father and cook David Frenkiel and wife Luise started a humble food blog that grew into a book and app empire celebrating vegetarian food. David shares his thinking on feeding kids, his all-time favourite vegetable and why you should serve pancakes for dinner.
Q+A
Cardboard camping
Diy
The playground makers
Breakfast pops
The thank-you project • Nancy Davis Kho wrote fifty thank-you letters and discovered gratitude is a mindset that takes practice.
Thank you
Parent opinions
By tekie quaye • Thirty years ago my mum, who is white, didn’t have that community or privilege to help guide us through the awkward, confusing and hard experiences we had growing up. She was surrounded by people who would stop to say how she had done an amazing thing adopting little African babies. It wouldn’t even occur to people that she could have given birth to us herself.
By liz petrone • Look at me, I thought. I am a saint, basically. A forgiveness boss. I am a modern-day Mother Teresa in an embarrassingly large SUV.
By kay kerr • It has happened to me more times than I care to recollect, and I haven’t yet managed to answer with the right balance of re-education, compassion and sass. When someone tells me how devastated they are about their child’s disability, they are saying they loathe the idea of their child being like me.
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