It’s a heavy weight to shoulder sometimes, being the keeper of all kid knowledge. I am the one who knows everything there is to know about our kids. I know who is allergic to what. I know how much each of them weighs. I know who likes sausages and who doesn’t. I know who has […]
Parenting and Family.
Being a parent is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also just plain hard!
These parenting tips and ideas can help you find ways to make life with kids a little easier, and the real life stories from parents just like you might make you feel a little less alone.
Walking Home Alone.
“If you two don’t stop fighting I will stop this car and make you walk home.” I could not believe those words actually came out of my mouth. Was I insane? Had the bickering and screeching and scrapping and whining finally made me lose my mind? As soon as the words left my mouth I […]
Why Reward Charts are Not For Us…
“He’s two right?” “Yes” I reply… “he was two in June.” “Oh is he toilet trained yet?” “No, I don’t think he’s ready yet.” I had hoped the conversation would end there. After all, toilet training is the ‘do they sleep through the night’ of toddler-hood and since my toddler was obviously lacking in that […]
Arrghh! Christmas!
Welcome to my Arrghh! Christmas! Series. I am far from an organising guru and in fact I feel somewhat agitated to see the word ‘Christmas’ splashed around in October, but I’ve learned from experience that if I don’t start getting my head around Christmas now then it all goes to hell in a hand-basket somewhere […]
Rats
I think I might have somehow possibly agreed to let Zoe get a pet rat. Maybe She was devastated after Nutmeg (guinea pig number 2 for Zoe) died and swore she could never be replaced… at least not by another guinea pig. And then she began to bring home books on rats and mice from […]
Helping Kids Deal With Change
There is change in the air around here. We are about to embark on the messiest stage of our renovations. My tarpaulin kitchen will be ripped out tomorrow (I will have a make shift cooking area in what used to be our bathroom! But more on that later), there will plasterers here all next week, […]
The Miracle of One Less.
This strange phenomenon can happen to anyone with multiple children. Have you ever experienced the miracle of ‘One Less’? I cleaned the kitchen after dinner while the girls showered. The toddler played quietly on the living room. I vacuumed and put the dishwasher on. The girls watched an episode of Horrible Histories and the toddler […]
Play With your Food? Or Not? My Thoughts on Food in Play.
When I was a brand new teacher, I worked with a wonderful woman who taught me lots about really connecting the children we were working with to what they were learning. She had some very passionate ideas, and one of those was that food should not be used for play. Her reasons for this made […]
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