5 Fun Ideas for Hosting a Play Date to Remember

May 6, 2017

Hosting a barbecue? Easy! Hosting a girl’s night in? Done! But hosting a play date for my little ones (age 3 and 9) and their friends? Including our neighbouring ankle-biters, tweens and all ages in between? Well, I’m still getting my head around that one. The truth is, making friends — communicating, sharing, compromising — is complicated. As parents, we can’t force kids to…

Jade Warne is the Hipster Mum, the eldest daughter in a family of 14 children raised by nuns on the beaches of Sydney, Australia. Just kidding! There were actually only seven of them, all raised by the kind of super-mum who makes nuns look like slackers: entrepreneurial, talented, kind, beautiful, and scandalously stylish. As the high-powered (read: high-strung) kid of the bunch, she studied finance and pitched stories to magazines on the side, eventually winding up at Marie Claire and Women's Health. These days, she offers a creative guide to parenting at Hipster Mum. Check out Hipster Mum on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and get liking already!