parenting

Parenting stories of poop and potty training

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Parenting Tips: encouraging your children to tidy-up at the end of the day

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Welcome to the Friday Club Carnival, a weekly carnival held here. This week’s Carnival is all about parenting tips and you’ll find links to other fab parenting tips at the end of this post. ******** My parenting tip this week is a simple one but one we use every day. For me, the most depressing [...]

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Christmas traditions

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Welcome to the Friday Club Carnival, a weekly carnival held here. This week’s Carnival is all about Christmas and you’ll find links to other great Christmas posts at the bottom of this post. ******** I think I am looking forward to this Christmas more than any other. Edward is nearly three and is beginning to [...]

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Foibles

so what

What do your children do that makes you love them even more?

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Advent: reading by candlelight

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Welcome to the Advent Carnival. At the bottom of the post you will find links to lots of other fabulous Advent Activities, please check them out. ******** The children know Advent has really begun when I put the reading-by-candlelight Advent candle on the table. This is a simple red church candle with a small wreath [...]

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Not the kind of sex education I want to teach

‘What’s a snog, Mum?’ ‘It’s another word for a kiss.’ Harry looks embarrassed. ‘Oh.’ ‘Is someone talking about kissing at school?’ There is silence. He won’t be drawn and goes back to his homework. But he’s not finished. ‘So what’s sex then?’ I’m unfazed, we’ve had this conversation plenty of times. ‘Sex is when a [...]

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