parenting tips or stories about dealing with children and helping them be stronger and more contented.
Oh Lance Armstrong, how gutted am I; you were the ultimate in marketing/hope story dreams. The cancer recovery, the seven wins of the Tour De France (my husband is a fan, and I like the bums), the amazing record. We’ve been listening for years about the fact that it was all a lie, but […]
So Far … For the last 7yrs since Curly Headed Boy arrived, I’ve been pretty much surviving on my intuition and dipping into the odd book for help every now and again for an adaptable tip. I had tended towards the trying to be as respectful and fair as possible, but when Little Dimples […]
Several months ago I was sent the most amazing thing for Curly Headed Boy to review the ‘Ultimate Dangerous Den Kit’ from Battle Box. OMG was I the best Mummy in the world for this old blogging marlarkey when it turned up! Luckily for me they are incredibly nice people as well, and they have never […]
We love out kids right? Even when they are being little sh*ts! But we do get frustrated and angry sometimes. We do let ‘life’ get in the way. And with horror we sometimes realise that our kids don’t know how much we love them. It can even get to the awful stage that they get […]
We love our kids, but it’s not always easy to have the amount of energy needed to keep them occupied, especially during holidays or when we are sick! So here are some tips on what to try when you are shattered, but you don’t want to turn on Cbeebies yet and you don’t want to […]
Things are so much easier now! AND SO MUCH HARDER! Philosophically I get that life is just different, children change, our challenges change, things aren’t ‘harder’ or ‘easier’, they are just different. But I’m surprised how much more difficult it is. Billie Piper talked about it his week (warning, that’s a link to the […]
I‘m not here today. I’m over on the BritMums Blog with my summary about dealing with online negativity or bullying. Go check it out, because it has a full description of the summary that I skipped over at the end of the panel with my Top Tips for dealing with these miserable people online: 1) […]
Choosing schools must be one of the most stressful experiences a parent ever goes through. Changing where you child goes to school is even worse! Rationally there is no way that just this one choice will be the making or breaking of them. But for some reason we become complete nutters when bewildered by choices, […]
What makes us feel one way or the other about education and the choices that we have to make for our children? Some of it must be society and peers. But I reckon a big part comes from our own childhood. I was sent to an all girls school; hence my dislike of single sex […]
This post is being written as part of the blog prompt for #DoSomethingYummy from Typecast which is the campaign for CLIC Sargent Charity for children with cancer. It hit a note with me because just after Little Dimples was born I had a cancer scare for about 6 months. The terror that hit me was immense, but there is one thing […]