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Parenting

Slightly hard, just a little bit soft

August 26, 2009

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/certified_su/ / CC BY 2.0 After a day or arse-splitting constipation from Third Son, requiring manual extraction (oh dear God no, I can’t even write those words without flinching) and a day of arse-exploding diarrhoea from Second Son (sixth stomach bug in five weeks, it’s been such a fun summer) is it just a [...]

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Three years old, blue striped t-shirt, wispy hair, eczema all over his mouth

August 12, 2009

Photo: tomaszd We push through the entrance. There are thousands of people here. ‘Stay where you can see me, boys,’ I say. ‘If you get lost, we’ll meet here – find a mummy and tell her to bring you here.’ I say it twice, the second time making them look at me because they’re already [...]

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A different kind of perfection

May 27, 2009

I strive for pefection. I achieve, um, something quite a lot less than that. But that’s okay. My house is a mess but my children are happy. I’m busy but they learn to be resourceful and fill their own time. I don’t get anything done for myself or around the house that I would like [...]

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Pocket money, tooth fairy money, gift money: why the children are rich and I am poor.

January 5, 2009

William lost his first tooth on Boxing Day and was mostly concerned whether he would have another £1 from the tooth fairy to add to his stash of money received from various relatives over Christmas. That and how quickly he could get his next tooth to wobble and fall out to boost the coffers further. [...]

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Finding out about Santa

January 2, 2009

Despite all the sickness, Christmas was wonderful this year. At nearly seven, five and a half and nearly three, my big boys loved every minute of it. Harry vascillated between saying ‘I know that you fill the stockings, Mum’ and watching the skies for Father Christmas’s sleigh with uncontained excitement. Even though he is on [...]

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Dear Deidre, Help, my toddler won’t eat!

November 28, 2008

Ben, my irascible-yet-charming preschooler, has eaten nothing but a rice cake since yesterday morning. And this is a perfectly regular occurrence in our house. Every mealtime is greeted by his siren call: ‘I don’t want chicken sandwich/apple pie/sausages/grapes/whatever ‘ and everytime I say, ‘okay, come and eat when you’re hungry’. Because I know how to [...]

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Ten things that motherhood gives you

June 25, 2008

From Caitlin Moran, at Alpha Mummy, comes quite possibly the best description of new motherhood I have read: As I discovered in the first few weeks of motherhood, having a newborn is a very special era in your life, when you have so little time that you often have to split having a poo between [...]

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Mothers day

March 5, 2008

Last Sunday was Mothers’ Day here. It didn’t get off to a good start when Ben woke coughing at 2am and didn’t stop until about 6am. So around 5am I brought him into bed with me in the hope he would settle. Instead this was possibly the most exciting thing I could have done and [...]

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