parenting

Oh the IRONY!!!

The home-made soup I have laboured over this morning simmers menacingly. This week’s migraine is pounding a rhythm carefully on the inside of my skull when Eight – his homework spread across the kitchen table – asks me to explain the difference between funny-haha and funny-ironic. I stop and think and can almost feel my [...]

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Honest

It’s been a long time coming but things are finally going a bit right for our family at the moment. I’ve written before about the problems my eldest son has been having over the last year. In daily life I haven’t really talked to anyone about what I have gone through with him but in [...]

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The only thing you need to take on a family vacation

A hotel that calls itself a family hotel is categorically NOT a family hotel if it doesn’t pay attention to the details that make a holiday with small children workable. Last week we spent the week in Devon in a lovely family-friendly cottage. Except the cottage wasn’t set up for small children. The water was [...]

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How not to lose a child in a public place

not losing anyone

Once upon a time there was a smug mother. This smug mother had two beautifully behaved boys who walked beside her whilst out in public and who never strayed (much) from her side in public places. Then this mother birthed a child called Ben. By the time he grew legs the smug was wiped clear [...]

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Bush

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My children are blessed with generous family and godparents and, as a result, each of the children has their own camera. It seems absurd to admit that at age 4, or age 2, they have a camera – albeit secondhand ones – and at first I was slightly ashamed of the fact. But despite having [...]

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Softplay and snogging

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This is a guest post from Bea Hope who is writing about her morning at the soft play centre. If you would like to guest post here please let me know. Yesterday I took my youngest to softplay because it was raining. I haven’t been to our local softplay centre in a long time because [...]

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