parenting

After school

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It has been a long term for my five year old.

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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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Blogging and parenting

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When I wrote a post about coping with four children under six I could never have imagined that, over time, I would have thousands of visitors to it (many searching on search engines for tips for coping with lots of small children), that it would be posted on parenting forums across the world and that [...]

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Where does my time go?

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I held you, mottled pink and silicon-fat arms.

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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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