Parenting posts
After a slow and very hot start to the summer holidays, this week I’ve attempted to pick up my game a bit. On Tuesday, a friend from ‘home’ (ie where I grew up and will always refer to as home, despite having not lived there in well over a decade) came to visit. She’s a history teacher, so I thought she’d […]
A lovely picnic by the lake: How to give your kid kyknophobia Read More >>
Two and a half years ago, when I was just starting off in the blogging world, I wrote a post about my honest experience of breastfeeding which you can read here. In short, to begin with, breastfeeding hurt. It hurt a lot. It was toe-curlingly, excruciatingly painful. Both times, after a few weeks of perseverance, tears and a lot of
Breastfeeding can hurt and it’s time to be honest about it Read More >>
It’s too hot to be inside, it’s way too hot to be out. It’s too hot to walk, it’s too hot to get in the car. It’s too hot for deodorant to be anywhere near effective. It’s definitely too hot to go on public transport. It’s too hot to go to the park, it’s too hot to go to soft
It’s too hot: An ode to a heatwave Read More >>
Monday was the first official day of the summer holidays! And here is how it went down. It turns 6.41am and here they are. Who listens to gro-clocks anyway? Not my kids. I can tell the big one hasn’t had enough sleep, it was very very hot last night. God help us all. I reluctantly get up and help them get
DITL: First morning of the summer holidays Read More >>
I said I wouldn’t cry at my daughter’s last day in preschool. I laughed and said ‘I’ll be coming back here every day with the other one next year, and she’ll only be in the building next door!’. I said ‘If I cry it’s only because I know I have to entertain her for six weeks all by myself!’. But
The end of term… and an era Read More >>
Today is the end of the preschool term. The biggest one goes back in tomorrow for a party and then – bam – it’s all over, until she starts Big School in September and the preschool reopens, six full weeks from now. It’s just us three, on our own. For six weeks. Here are some thoughts that I’m having today:
Eight things I’m thinking on the last day of term Read More >>
As the UK prepares itself for the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, to touch down in our home country, and the women of the United Kingdom feel their vaginas slam shut in unison, it got me wondering about the kind of world that my kids will be growing up into. That made me pretty sad.
I think my three year old might be Donald Trump: Here are 17 reasons Read More >>
If you’re reading this, then chances are you’re pregnant. Congratulations! It’s great, isn’t it? Just kidding, rather you than me. Now obviously dealing with this heat, that’s the easy bit. Harder by far is deciding (and agreeing upon) what you will call your baby. Somehow, from the thousands – no, millions – of potential names, you have to decide on
Ten steps to picking the perfect baby name Read More >>
It was my smallest’s third birthday yesterday. We decided to throw him a party, and as his birthday fell on a Sunday it seemed like a good idea to have it on his birthday. It certainly made for a full-on day for all of us! Here are my top tips for third birthday survival: 1) Go to bed early the
Surviving a third birthday: Ten top tips for parents Read More >>
I feel like I couldn’t let this slide by without marking it in some way. My little boy is turning three this weekend! He’s gone from a baby to a toddler to a preschooler in the blink of an eye. A very long, very tired blink of an exceptionally bleary and sleep deprived eye. In the last year he’s gone
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