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Parenting

I like change but I like routine more

May 24, 2010
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I am trying hard only to blog positive stuff as much as possible at the moment. So my long absence reflects a crappy last few weeks. We have been on the road visiting family in difficult circumstances, but we made the most of the trip and tried to make it fun for the children and [...]

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Where does my time go?

March 4, 2010

I held you, mottled pink and silicon-fat arms. I gazed at you, with amazement and fright. I fed you, in the dark hours when the world had stopped except for us. I rocked you, when nothing else helped. I changed you, picked up after you, I helped you to walk. I weaned you, I tickled [...]

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On being more patient

February 17, 2010

Luckily, Lent – and therefore my efforts to give up being impatient – begins on Ash Wednesday because yesterday was Trying. That is the most patient word I can think of to describe it. First, number three son -  already a tricky boy and already the difficult age of four – was poorly with ongoing [...]

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What to give up for Lent

February 16, 2010

After much deliberation, I have decided: I am giving up impatience for Lent. NO LAUGHING AT THE BACK. (I’ll let you know how I get on!) Photo: me

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Aporkalypse

November 24, 2009

So despite all my precautions, swine flu has hit the household, four days after William got his first of the two swine flu vaccinations. I wasn’t allowed more than three days of semi-relief that he was partially protected because that would clearly have lulled me into a false sense of security. And as any mother [...]

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Trying to be the best parent I can be

November 10, 2009

Life is not going well at the moment. Instead of blogging, I have been attempting to take care of the problems in my family. Sometimes I go on the internet to google things like ‘how to discipline a child who doesn’t care about being disciplined’, ‘counselling for a child’ and other such things. I want [...]

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Money well spent

September 25, 2009

The nursery teacher hands me the small brown envelope that I immediately recognise as the school fees. I am about to throw it away when I remember that Ben is staying for the lunchtime hour this term and therefore I will, for the first time, have to pay fees. It is only for that hour [...]

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Lessons in parenting

September 5, 2009

I love this piece from Anna Maxted in the Guardian today about calling in the parenting pros for lessons in professional parenting. I’m a firm believer in reflective listening and building self-esteem rather than punitive discipline but it’s not always easy, or even possible, when presented by a recalcitrant seven year old or a three [...]

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