BBC Radio Solent presenter, DJ Alex Dyke has been suspended following a frankly pathetic rant against breastfeeding mothers last Wednesday. Dyke clearly has some serious issues with the “ladies” who breastfeed in public. The broadcast has subsequently been removed from the BBCiPlayer but the DJ’s comments have been widely reported. The Southern Daily Echo published Dyke’s […]

11 years ago

Just when food concoctions are becoming bigger and even more outlandish, and we find ourselves greedier and more glutinous than ever, the miniature donut and Pop Tart land to save us from ourselves. Brought to us by Caitlyn of foodie lifestyle blog, Public Lives, Secret Recipes this miniature munch is giving us strange new feelings… […]

11 years ago

Presenting the MAN-ternity shoot. This admittedly pretty niche trend has been lurking on the Internet for some time but we think it’s time that we gave these creepy dads the respect they deserve for contributing to perhaps the best worst pregnancy photo-series’ ever. When dad to be and Reddit user, DruishPrincess69, found his expectant wife didn’t fancy […]

11 years ago

LEGO was probably the biggest motivator for starting a family for The Man and I. Sure we wanted to experience all the magic and joy of parenthood but we also really wanted to play with Lego again and figured having a child was one great way to revisit the carefree LEGO-days of our youth. Now […]

11 years ago

Toddlers are the absolute best. The cuteness. The dancing. The giggles. And oh the leg-hugs. They know how to work us so well. Pour milk on the dog? Just make this face… Gets us every time. We are suckers. My one is essentially a criminal mastermind. Whenever a peaceful silence descends, my heart starts racing. […]

11 years ago

Ciara Gorman Fennessy is owner of Ciara’s Kitchen, a cooking demonstration class with a difference, and mum to twins and recipe testers, Holly and Freddie (4). I studied Commerce in UCD and worked in a marketing job for years. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t my dream. My parents had wanted me to get a degree […]

11 years ago

This week’s mumpreneur is Ballymaloe-trained chef, Ciara Gorman Fennessy. Owner of Ciara’s Kitchen, a cooking demonstration class with a difference, Ciara is also mum to twins and recipe testers, Holly and Freddie (4). At Ciara’s Kitchen clients come to watch me cook and learn the process. The aim is to teach people of all levels how […]

11 years ago

This week’s mumpreneur is Ballymaloe-trained chef, Ciara Gorman Fennessy. Owner of Ciara’s Kitchen, a cooking demonstration class with a difference, Ciara is also mum to twins and recipe testers, Holly and Freddie (4). At Ciara’s Kitchen clients come to watch me cook and learn the process. The aim is to teach people of all levels how […]

11 years ago

The blog Childhood Unplugged, now run by a group of 10 parents from America and Finland, was founded three years ago by Florida mum-of-three, Monica Calderin. After a photography assignment challenged her to take time off from her phone she was inspired and decided to experiment and take her whole family offline. Writing in an article for […]

11 years ago

According to the Guardian, a family driving through France drove 150km before realising that they had left their 3-year-old child behind in a lay-by. They were making their way to the French Riviera for a holiday at the time. Thankfully other tourists found the child in the rest area on the A7 motorway and raised […]

11 years ago

They literally brought a smile to the Internet’s face this week with their highly original pregnancy announcement which went viral receiving close to 11 million views since its release four days ago. However Sam and Nia have since revealed the heartbreaking news that they suffered a miscarriage since making the video. In an emotional and […]

11 years ago

Earlier this week our article 10 Milk-drunk Babies may be the Cutest Thing You’ll Ever See was one of the most shared pieces on the site. With so many of you, our readers, sending us adorable and hilarious snaps of your own drunk babas we realised that we may have spoken prematurely because in fact THESE 11 […]

11 years ago

A day at the beach with his grandmother, Carole Middleton, provided a pleasant break from what has thus far been a royal engagement-heavy Summer for the future king. With the arrival and christening of his new little sister and endless functions and public appearances, the boy-king has barely had a minute. A little R&R at […]

11 years ago

When it comes to style, it’s all about accessories, accessories, accessories. An old outfit can be given a new lease of life with a bit of clever (and inexpensive) updating, and the same approach can work for our homes. Redecorating is not usually an option (if only) which is why we’re going to give the […]

11 years ago

The latest outrageously decadent milkshake to sweep the Internet may just be worth the airfare. The Tella Ball shake has been masterminded in Foodscraft Espresso cafe in Sydney, Australia and we like their thinking. Owner Aki Daikos told Sydney’s Good Food site: “We came up with the shake last week after trying to be creative […]

11 years ago

I don’t why but for some reason this feel-good video kind of restores my faith in humanity.  This is a slightly oldy but oh so goody and if you’ve never seen a hundred different babies and kids dancing along to a pop classic then dive in, this video will literally make your day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=82&v=MHie7TdYkKI

11 years ago

We’ve all gotten a bit giddy on those rare, precious nights off from the kids. A bit of ill-advised karaoke or some dancing in the street is nothing that a few panadol and a toddler standing on your face can’t cure. However for one mum-of-two, the aptly named Charlene Spice of Cambridge, England things got […]

11 years ago

I honestly don’t know if I can summon the will to type this… … the forthcoming West will be named Easton. According to the the Daily Mail, the name was leaked by a close friend. Here is an updated map of the Kimye clan incase anyone is getting confused or disorientated at this stage: Kim explained […]

11 years ago

Seeing the latest Star Trek movie this week has got me all fired up to name my next baby Spock. In a bid to keep this from happening, I thought I’d channel my inner-Frohike and put together some namespiration for those among us who wish Quantum Leap was still on. 10 Nerdy Baby Names That […]

11 years ago

Warning: Contains graphic images some readers may find offensive… or amusing if you’re childish like us! 10 Toy maker blunders that will scar kids for life: 1. Uh oh… #fired? 2. If only this didn’t ring kind of true for us… Anyone else’s child use the paddling pool as a loo this Summer? 3. Lost […]

11 years ago

“That’s right, for the first time ever Daddy announces the pregnancy to mommy!” The pregnancy announcement viral sensation that has been viewed over 3 million times in TWO days. Sam of YouTube’s famed couple Sam and Nia just turned the whole “You’re gonna be a daddy” thing on its head and has single-handedly changed the genre of YouTube […]

11 years ago

The latest Instagram trend for posting snaps of blissed-out little babas post liquid lunch may be the most potent injection of cute since, well, maybe that video of the Chihuahua sneezing. Initially started to coincide with #WorldBreastfeedingweek, we all know that whether bottle or breast fed every baby looks pretty satisfied after a cuddle and […]

11 years ago

I would love to be one of those people who don’t seem that fussed about food, the people who forget about a morsel of cake wrapped in tin foil in the bottom of the fridge. I am not. I am one of those people who upon finding said tin foil-wrapped cake sporting an unfortunate additional coating […]

11 years ago

So just made this… in the HerFamily.ie office no less. That’s how damn easy it is. Kind of had to fight off some of the Joe.ie men; that’s how damn tasty it is. Make it, eat it, love it. #NoRegrets. Flourless Peanut Butter Mug Cake Serves 1 Ingredients: 3 tablespoon peanut butter (creamy) 3 teaspoons white granulated […]

11 years ago

In honour of World Breastfeeding Week we thought we’d round up some of our all-time favourite breastfeeding comics. These clever drawings celebrate the experience of nursing from the joy and elation to the mundane and occasionally frustrating. Happy lactating! 1. Multitasking like a boss.   By Lucy Scott, author of Doodle Diary of a […]

11 years ago

Yesterday, UK morning show This Morning enlisted journalists, Kelly Rose Bradford and Emma Taylor to debate a question that I found laughable until I saw the wide-reaching support it garnered on Twitter (admittedly not the most sensible platform for ideas at the best of times): Do we need child-free flights? Mum-of-one Bradford argued for child-free flights […]

11 years ago

Our fave (we wish) mum-friend, Amy Huberman has opened up to Irish Tatler in the forthcoming September issue about a certain pet peeve. “I hated being labelled a WAG when Brian was playing. Yes, you can break down every word, but essentially it is derogatory and it’s definitely not nice. I just think it’s a […]

11 years ago

“I want women to come here to meet other women, to be able to see what motherhood actually looks like. I want to create a tribe, a support system, a validation system, a positive force to combat the negativity that we are being surrounded by.” These are the words of Liliana Taboas, founder of Divine-Mothering.com […]

11 years ago

I always have great intentions of crafting beautiful homemade gifts for my son. For the most part, however, any thing I make for him from pillow forts to cards to cake is demolished and then flung on the floor. “You’re making it hard for me to be the parent I want to be,” I tell […]

11 years ago

I never really understood the fascination with the Royals thing until Prince George came along and literally became the cutest future king the world has ever known (including Simba from The Lion King and he was pretty damn cute). The life of a Royal Baby must be a major drag as evidenced by these photos. […]

12 years ago

Do you go to bed every night full of plans and new leafs and good intentions? Me too. It’s completely exhausting. I finish every day planning how tomorrow (always ‘tomorrow’) I’m going to crack this whole ‘being a person’ thing. I’m going to organise the linen cupboard and throw out any knickers that predate my […]

12 years ago

Lack of sleep leaves one fragile and hyper-sensitive. Add one helpless newborn and possibly a few older siblings. Minus ANY time to have a shower or even think a coherent thought without interruption. Multiply that by the number of weeks old your oldest child is. Divide by the number of trips to the loo undertaken […]

12 years ago

Occasionally couples toy with the notion of getting a pet before having a child as a sort of a dry run. A way of testing out how a baby might fit into their lives. Personally I think this is a bad road to go down if you are not a bona fide animal lover in […]

12 years ago

We met with Raw foodie, chef and best-selling author, Doris Choi to demystify the Raw movement. Here she gives us her delicious recipe for spicy sushi that is raw-foodie friendly and tastes too good to be healthy, served recently at her raw food supper club hosted with Domini Kemp at Dublin’s Alchemy Juice Co., BT2. […]

12 years ago

Ahead of her raw food supper club hosted with Domini Kemp at Dublin’s Alchemy Juice Co., BT2, we met with Raw foodie, chef and best-selling author, Doris Choi to demystify the Raw movement. The best-selling author and busy mum of two (she has two sons: 3-year-old Oliver and 18-year-old Kainan) looks simply stunning when we […]

12 years ago

This week the news of Ireland’s youngest granny hit the headlines, and now the world’s OLDEST granny is breaking records. Yesterday, 28th July, Jia Jia a panda at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park turned 37-years-old and entered the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest captive panda in the world. If 37 years seems young, don’t […]

12 years ago

A Lego product is in development that could help to remove the stigma of having a prosthetic limb for children. Designer, Carlos Torres, recently used a 6-month internship with Lego to create a new type of lego-compatible prosthetic, Iko, that puts the ‘fun’ into functionality. He teamed up with 8-year-old, Dario, who has a congenital condition that has […]

12 years ago

It’s hardly a new observation that toddlers strongly resemble miniature drunk people, between the belligerence, the vomiting, the soiling themselves and the delight in destruction, most of the time my toddler son more closely resembles that guy at the party who’s challenging people to throw their shoes over the house than a sweet child. A […]

12 years ago

Hitting the road this long weekend? We all have notions of looking Instagram-perfect during our drama-free, tantrum-free, wine-filled bank holiday getaways, but inevitably we leave the packing until ten past the time we were supposed to get on the road. The kids have gear enough for a two-month trek, including outfits suitable for snow-capped mountains, […]

12 years ago

With a beautiful series of images, photographer, Kristen Anne has captured the incredible moment her friends, David and Sarah Olsen, met their adoptive daughter for the first time. “I have always wanted to photograph the first meeting of an adopted baby. This week, I got to be a part of this incredible moment with one of […]

12 years ago

It’s possible we get more fun out of building forts than our kids do

12 years ago

Images of 37-year-old Victoria Donda Perez have gone viral since the MP was filmed breastfeeding her 8-month-old daughter during a parliamentary session at the Congressional Palace in Buenos Aires. Perez who is a human rights activist and lawyer, was the youngest woman ever to become a member of Argentina’s National Congress in 2007. Since her […]

12 years ago

Is butter chicken your fave item on the Indian takeaway menu? For me, the answer is a resounding YES! It’s got butter in the title, and anything with butter in the title is okay by me. Butter, Butterscotch, butternut squash, butter, buttered toast. I just really love butter. Unfortunately with butter, comes butter-gut which is […]

12 years ago

Along with all the glowing (sweating) and joy (hormones) of the human gestation, there is a fair bit of humiliation and embarrassment. Your body is doing a range of new things that you have no control over. It is also the subject of frequent examination. Midwives performing scans might, for example, comment on how full […]

12 years ago

This. Is. Happening. We’ve long been fans of Mooch Froyo on Dawson street, but sometimes getting there can be a problem. What about those days when we are unable to leave the house due to toddler intervention or just laziness? Finally Mooch are remedying the issue with their new delivery service. Sweet, soft-serve, delicious, marginally-more-healthy-than-ice-cream […]

12 years ago

Now that I have gotten to know my son it actually makes total sense that he was a breech baby. He is a contrary, obstinate, stubborn little person, he gets it from me. I was a bit slow on the uptake when it came to most aspects of pregnancy. I didn’t figure out that I […]

12 years ago

Hunting the Internet for the cutest things imaginable is a tough job but we’re willing to shoulder this burden with the aim of brightening up your day. Dressing up babies is one of the main perks of those chaotic, sleep-deprived years of early parenthood. (And all the cuddles and kisses and love, of course.) We […]

12 years ago

Babies generally say their first words somewhere between 11 and 14 months when their brains begin to associate sounds with objects and people. However, these little babas are undoubtedly going to be more articulate than some adults we know. At just three months old THIS little baba is already telling his dad “I love you”. It’s […]

12 years ago

This easy no-bake GIANT Twix bar is the stuff of choco-fantasies. The last time we strayed onto our fave YouTube baking channel, My Cupcake Addiction, we stumbled across the DANGEROUSLY delicious Giant Reese’s Cup and now we’ve uncovered My Cupcake Addiction’s latest contribution to the world of outlandishly-sized confectionary, the Giant Twix slice. Seriously we have […]

12 years ago

Our fave Irish TV personality and courter of occasional controversy, Maia Dunphy has given birth to a baby boy last Friday after a pleasingly unceleb-like pregnancy, refreshingly devoid of body image hysteria and flesh coloured plastic bodycon dresses. Go Maia, thanks for sparing us. Our new man has his Dad’s habits already. Tom Laurence arrived […]

12 years ago