Carole

Carol Adams & I got to know each other at a “Mummy & Baby” yoga class in 2008, just a few months after my daughter (and her son) were born.  They were our second children and Carol was the epitome of warm, calm & creative parenting.  I was TRYING to be calm … hence the yoga … but my company needed me back at work, my son was a feisty 1 ½ year old, and the nanny I’d just hired kept telling (and showing) me that she wished she was retired and living near a beach.  
When Carol told me that she had child care experience I jumped at the chance to have her come & look after my children.  She brought her two little ones along with her each morning, and so it was that Carol became “Mummy Carol” … an integral part of our family for the next few years.  Together we navigated everything from diaper training to time outs and tantrums.  In 2009 we built an extension on to our house so that we could accommodate a mammoth quad stroller that Carol used to take the kids to the park while I was at work.  These days, every time I see someone determinedly pushing an over-sized stroller up a hill or along the sidewalk, I think of Carol.   She is still “Mummy Carol” to my kids & I feel privileged to have learned from her example.  There’s something to be said for parenting in pairs … :)

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