My Toilet Trained Two Year Old is Not an Attack on You

October 28, 2015

Those tiny undies with trucks on them are not a personal attack on you.

The fact that my kids have learned to use the toilet a bit earlier than average is not an affront to your parenting.

I’ve seen you notice the undies, ask how old he is and then glance at your own toddler with that look. Believe me, I know that feeling of deflation. And I…

Barbara O'Reilly, AKA Babs, AKA Patchwork Cactus is a blogger, a writer, a trash TV watcher and an Instagram addicted shutterbug. Although a journalist by trade, the three week old baby stowed away under her graduation gown steered her away from the world of reporting and right into the blogosphere.
Babs, her almost-hubby and their two kids are attempting to live the slow life in a beach side suburb on the east coast of Australia, they have the rickety house, the pet chickens and the barefoot kids but are yet to find the 'slow'.
Her blog Patchwork Cactus is where she talks about making, baking, parenting and living a happy beachside life. Feel free to stalk her on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.
PS - She wrote this bio with a nude two year old sitting on her shoulder like an actual parrot. True story.