Contents
Welcome Page
About Because Mummy Said So
Dedication
How it began…
2004: Toddler Spots and Burnt Pots
Just Call Me Flo…
To the Infirmary and Beyond
Trick or Treat?
The Ambush
And the Number One Answer Is…
Father’s Day Massacre
Mind Your Manners
Terror Tots
It’s Criminal…
2005: Porcelain Thrones and Megaphones
Ready, Aim, Fire…
Jamie’s Bitchin
The Mother of All Jobs
Excess Baggage
The Sun is Out…
Stick ’Em Up…
Big Mother is Watching
On Yer Bike
Happy Birthday to You…
Oh, For Flick’s Sake
Because I Said So
On The Third Day of Christmas…
2006: Battling Brothers and Earth Mothers
Oh, Brother!
Morning Has Broken… Me!
Lilo Lil
Power Cut
Boy Oh Boy…
Away With the Fairies
2007: Milk Breaks and Saddle-aches
Crazed By the Bell
Howdy Pardner
It’s a Mother of a Thing
I’m Dreaming of a…
2008: Musical Toys and Domesticating Boys
Growing Pains…
Making Sweet Music
The Bonnie Banks…
The Music Man
2009: Christmas Letters and Plans To Do Better
Birth Plans
MP For Motherhood
Eye Eye
Dear Santa
2010: Costumes and Dodgy Tunes
The Horn
A Good Sport
Jolly Japes
Proud Mary Payback
2011: Grooming Regimes and Holiday Schemes
Hair Today
This is Mum
Costa Del Factor Fifty
Sunny Side Up
Monaco
We Wish You a Sherry Christmas
2012: Beyoncé, Kate Middleton and Judy Murray Walk Into a Playgroup…
Broody
Suck It Up
Good Morning?
Tennis Elbow
Royal Bumps and Blue Bits
2013: Auntie’s Tanks and Mothering Thanks
Auntie
Second Time Around
Party Popper
Love, Mum
The Scream
Baby Weight
Equal Measures
Party On
Lucky Stars
Teen Spirit
2014: Good Intentions and Parenting Inventions
Happy New Year
Nappy Times
The Ring
Supermum
Not Guilty
Confessions of a Competitive Mum
School’s Moving On Up
Uniform Smugdom
Can You… Stay Forever?
Opening Arguments
Tinsel and Teenagers
2015: Mum Wages and Teenage Stages
Paying Mum
The Wonder Years
Mumflu
School of Life
Fleeing the Nest
All About Me
Term Time Blues
Spectre
Woe Ho Ho
The Hypocritical Oath
2016: School Exams and Celebrity Prams
The Parent Label
Testing Times
Baby Payne
Gangsta Wrapper
2017: Worries, Woes, and Letting Go
The Year of No Worries
Parent Fail
Anatomy of a Bump
And now… sob…
Empty Nest
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About Shari Low
Also by Shari Low
About Anima
Copyright