This weekend, my boy let someone else babysit him and put him to bed, with no fuss, and no tears. Most people would read that and think “wow, what is so exciting about that, do these people not have a life?” But if you read on, you will find out why that is a big […]
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Hello, Emily here. I am going to tell you about learning to knit. My mum taught me recently, and I love it. My mum says I am very creative and I like making lots of different things, and I always want to make things for other people, to make them happy. I decided, because I […]
READ MOREIn fact, bedtime round here, could be regarded as a major parenting fail… Before I had children, I swore that any children I had, would go to sleep by themselves and be good sleepers. After all, as a nanny, then pediatric nurse, I knew the hard time that parents who “pandered” to their kids and […]
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There, I said it. I hate raisins. They are nasty, sticky, shriveled up bits of fruit, that children and adults seem to love. I can’t stand them. I don’t like them in sweet or savory foods. I will avoid meals that contain them. The only thing I can tolerate them in is a well-made fruit […]
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I am a working parent. I currently work for myself, writing this blog and articles for various parenting organisations, as well as working in my day job running parent/carer groups local to me. I am lucky in many ways, because I am my own boss to a greater extent, so things like sick leave, holidays, […]
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We are very fortunate to have a large back garden, with lots of space and potential for growing things. However, I am not a gardener. My skills are limited to pots of herbs, and growing tomatoes and strawberries, and keeping my houseplants alive. I am very keen to use the space we have in our […]
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I love this quote and am finding it comforting at the moment, because it is where I am at both on a short term, and a long term, with my parenting. I recently hatched a plan to take the children, with just me (as LSH cannot take more leave) to go home, to Scotland, for […]
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*This is a collaborative post sharing why I don’t camp and why glamping is THE way forward if like me, sleeping in a tent on the ground is the last thing you enjoy doing. If you know me in real life you will know that I am not fond of the whole sleeping on the […]
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I am always on the look out for useful tools to help with parenting. As a family that loves stories, both telling and listening to them, I thought that this book might be something we could try. It’s a very interesting concept. This is a guest post from the author, Nic Andela, explaining a little […]
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When we were in Bangkok last Christmas, one thing I noticed, when we used public transport, was that Thai people treat children differently on transport. We used the SkyTrain a lot, whilst we were there (it’s amazingly efficient, we loved it) and when we got into a carriage with the children, people used to immediately […]
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