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I’m a thirty-something mum of 2 (4 and 2 year old). I’ve recently moved out of Edinburgh to Kinross-shire just before Lockdown. I started Dribble when I was on mat leave with my second child, as I had identified a need for a resource to help parents find things to do and places to go…
MOONCUP CELEBRATES REAL USERS IN NEW CAMPAIGN Mooncup® turns 18 and goes mainstream with #RealMooncupUser Mooncup Ltd. is delighted to launch its latest campaign, starring real Mooncup Users. Hundreds came forward to share their own diverse stories in a virtual ‘word of mouth’ campaign celebrating 18 years of the Mooncup menstrual cup, and its impact…
BEHIND EVERY PICTURE – GUEST POST FROM SALLY ANNE SAINT There is a story behind every picture and this is mine. I was asked to be part of a charity calendar last summer, a Marilyn Monroe style, white sheet project and I accepted. I decided to step outside of my comfort zone completely by doing…
Josefa lives in the South of Edinburgh with her husband, daughter Grace who is 3 and the newest addition to their family Amy, who (at the time of writing this) is seven weeks old. Before setting up Graceful Changes, Josefa started out on her career journey as an accountant, before re-training as a primary school…
FANTASTIC FEMALES – ROZ COLTHART, FOUNDER OF SALON STUDIOS Roz Colthart, Founder of Salon Studios: Born in Edinburgh and as an alumna of Napier University with a Masters’ in BusinessAdministration, Roz has spent most of her life living abroad and working for some ofthe most influential hospitality companies in the world. Her business journey started…
How do you explain racial bias to your children? I have chosen the Comic Sans font as this is the font used primarily in National Schools and is easily recognizable to young students who may want to read this with their parents. I recall a young white child saying to a black child (Person of…
Dr Victoria Khromova, founder of Emerging Parent. Victoria started Emerging Parent alongside working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist after realising just how much of the knowledge that she had gained through her training she was using to parent her own daughter. Knowledge that was available through specialist clinical courses and books, but difficult to…
MY SON IS BLACK, HE NEEDS TO KNOW BY CLAIRE QUANSAH (MUMSOMNIA) I have a nearly 8-year old son. He’s handsome, funny, smart, caring. He makes us proud. But in recent months I’ve become increasingly aware of the difficult conversations I’m going to have to have with him. Aside from the puberty and girls chat (eeek!…
43-year-old Alison Bishop is founder of Bishop Marketing Communications, a small communications consultancy based in Manchester. She began her career at what was then termed ‘an internet marketing agency’ in Leeds, shortly after completing a journalism course in Essex. After having her first child in 2008, she went on to work as marketing manager at…
MOTHERLY LOVE IN A PANDEMIC, SHARING STORIES OF MOTHERHOOD DURING A GLOBAL CRISIS Rachel, founder of Rose Wellbeing Therapies in Dumfries and run local classes for new parents, Baby Massage, Baby Yoga, post natal support and more. During Lockdown Rachel made some collaborations of stories from Local Mum’s and their stories about conception, pregnancies, births…