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 …
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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 …
This week my daughter contracted a nasty case of conjunctivitis. She woke up crying, "My eyes! My eyes!" Her eyelids glued together with a crust of luminous mucus. Once bathed with cotton wool, she squinted out of red, swollen sockets which oozed with green gunk. It was horrible to see her in pain. But even …
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This week our boiler packed up - the perfect time of year for an unforeseen disaster. Aside from the stress and expense of finding a plumber who could fit a new one before the forecast snow began falling, we were left without heating or hot water for six days. Though we were not exactly cosy, …
I have just finished chipping dried Weetabix off the table when my two-year-old daughter asks for another bowl of cereal. After this second sitting of breakfast is over she decides that she feels like being naked today. So the dress she insisted on wearing - one of her smartest and best fitting - has been …
