Tanith decided to to change her life and leave her job as Executive Editor on a celebrity magazine in New York the night she ended up working until eight hours before the birth of her second child.

It was when she returned to the UK with her newborn and three year old daughter, but found that full-time child-care was just too expensive, that she realized she had to find a way work to and care for her children.

Since then, Tanith has spent the last four years consulting experts, speaking to other mums and devising her own strategies to save time so she could enjoy her children, as well as bring in an income.

Tanith has since written four books and writes regularly on parenting and health for the Daily Mail, The Independent and the Daily Mirror as well as more general female issues for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers.

Among the other publications she has written for are You Magazine, The Times,  Now,  Grazia, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Express,The Sunday Express, Celebs on Sunday, The Sunday Mirror, Junior, The People, Bella, Real People, Woman, Womans Own, Hello, Thats Life, UK Press Gazette and My Weekly.

A former Features Editor and Womans Editor of the Daily Mirror - as well as the New York Correspondent - Tanith also won the Consumer Journalist of the Year award in 2003 - and was nominated for the UKPG Scoop of the Year for her investigative journalism. In 2009 she was also nominated for National Newspaper Health Feature Writer of the Year.

Tanith now combines journalism with book-writing.

How to Be An Amazing Mum - When You Just Dont Have the Time - The Ultimate Handbook for Hassled Mothers is her second book on Motherhood. Her fourth book, a humorous look at the golden age of Agony Aunt Advice, was published by Boxtree in November 2009.

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