Parenting

What to give up for Lent

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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Blog confessions

Adrenalynn recently posted some confessions and I was inspired to do the same because I like to share. So here are my top five confessions: Confession Number 1 I tell my children I cannot come out and play with them in the garden because I am busy doing chores. In reality I am on Facebook, [...]

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Aporkalypse

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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Money well spent

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

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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Slightly hard, just a little bit soft

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 little bit wrong that I should [...]

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