‘You Look Like a Model’ & 5 Other Compliments You Should Never Give My Daughter

February 16, 2015

I was hanging out with a girlfriend at my place, catching up over a cup of tea with the kids in my bedroom. I asked my six-year-old if she’d pop on the new dress I’d bought her and come out in her new gear.

My daughter was in a startlingly obliging mood (win!), and before I knew it she was skipping out of her room showing…

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!