"Are you happy?", my daughter asks me as I pick up pieces of broken egg off the floor. Kneeling at her feet I stoop to scoop up the cold gloop which is slowly spreading over the kitchen floor, a scrambled mess of yolk, white and shattered shell. "No, I am not happy," I reply. I …
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I wonder who I will be today? This is the question I ask as I get out of bed every morning. Not as part of some great life affirming exercise, but because I simply do not know. Since I became, “Mummy”, I lost track of my true self a long time ago. But these days …
Continue reading Who Do You Think You Are? Children’s Role Play
There's no denying it, becoming a parent definitely changes a person. Attitude, outlook, goals, ideals, dreams, expectations... creating a life just kicks your own into perspective. And the roles and responsibilities that come with rearing a child take up so much of your time and attention. But sometimes the impact of parenthood can cause you …
Why should children have all the fun at Easter? We hide the chocolate from them, then we help them find it and let them eat it all. What we should be doing is just hiding the chocolate. Then we can eat it when they aren't looking. But the trouble is - where to hide it …
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"When I grow up", has become a common theme of conversation in our household. My daughter only turned two in October, but she has long been talking about the things she will be able to do when she is three. "I'm going to be three", she tells strangers on the bus. "I am not a …
As previously discussed the thought of emptying the bladder has been weighing on my mind a lot of late. Here is a little ditty my daughter and I started to compose during those endless minutes sitting on the potty, waiting for something to happen. Sung to the tune of Frozen's Do You Want To Build …
Continue reading Do You Want To Use The Potty? A Toilet Training Parody
Now I understand why the word 'potty' is also used to mean mad. Five days in, potty training has driven me totally bonkers. My real problems was, I expected it to be fairly straightforward. Now I realise that I have fallen foul of an enormous conspiracy. Those casual posts I read that said, "Stay in …
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Cluck, cluck, cluck. It's that yearning you get when your baby is not really a baby anymore. You are struck by unexpected pangs of longing to have a tiny, helpless creature to snuggle up to. You find yourself wistfully wondering when your youngest suddenly got so big, and gaze enviously at other people's newborns. But …
“See you in 10 minutes,” I had said. We are meant to be meeting a friend at the park. It is a five minute walk from our house. And yet, fifteen minutes later we are only half way there. There were the typical hurdles to get over before actually leaving the house - putting coat …
As the eldest child of five, all through my early life I was dogged by the phrase, “Set a good example.” “Finish all your vegetables”; “Don’t pick your nose”; "Let someone else have a turn”; “Don’t climb on the furniture”; “Tidy your room”. The eyes of the world were supposedly on me, and the weight …
