Carrie Bickmore admits she's been getting parenting all wrong!

Carrie Bickmore reckons she’s been getting parenting all wrong.

In an open letter to The Daily Telegraph’s Stellar, The Project host – who is mum to Ollie, eight, and Evie, 17 months - reveals she’s been “seriously questioning my parenting on a daily basis.”

"The other night I broke the rules. Well, my rules. I woke up my eight-year-old son, Ollie, brought him into the big bed and slept with him in my arms all night," she admitted.

“It wasn’t for his sake. It was for mine…. I interviewed a family whose little boy was dying from brain cancer, and all I wanted to do was have Ollie close.

“I can count on one hand the number of times Ollie has slept in my bed. I raised him on a strict routine: I never rocked him to sleep, never fed him to sleep and never brought him to my bed when he woke at 5am.”

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Bickmore, 35, says wanted her life to run smoothly at that time, so had a strict regime. Her husband and Ollie’s dad, Greg Lange, fought with brain cancer for a decade before passing away in 2010. She now has Evie with her partner Chris Walker.

“But as I lay in bed with Ollie snuggled under my arm, I realised I’ve been doing this parenting thing all wrong. I wish I had broken the rules more with Ollie – hopefully there is still time,” she continued.

“And now, when Evie is refusing to get in her pram because she wants to walk on her own, I try like mad to stop and remember that if something happened to them tomorrow, I wouldn’t spend my days reminiscing about how many hours a night they slept.

“Instead, I’d recall the time I drove Ollie around for two hours on a Sunday just to chase Pokémon. Or how, the other week, I sat on the floor and let Evie draw all over me – face and all – for an hour.

“It’s not that I am about to become a free-range parent, I need my sleep too much for that, but I am definitely going to allow more spontaneity into my life.”

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