Parenting
“All children, except one, grow up”
Today Aoife is five years, six months and three days old. Today, while she quickly wrote a story before school because we’d forgotten to do her homework (when does that start becoming her fault not ours?), we found her first…
(S)he who does not ask remains a fool forever…..
It’s that time again, HALF TERM. Time for me to do some of that ‘proper parenting’ that I’ve heard about…. Obviously it’s blowing a hoolie outside (well it IS June) so we’re mostly in house. Aoife being here full time…
“It’s been a bad day, please don’t take a picture”
I have debated long and hard whether I was going to share this post today. I’m aware that it shows me at a terribly low point, at my worst and that makes me feel incredibly vulnerable.
Playdates – Why do we do it?
Before I was 30 I’d have said I wasn’t a fan of children, I didn’t like them one bit. They absolutely weren’t for me and I’d never have one. Ever. Then I hit 30 and was struck with an overwhelming…
Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day…..
…So I’ll spend it inside blogging a blog and watching trash TV. Parenting like a pro…… A couple of weeks ago we had to reintroduce the tick system.
“An expert is a damn fool a long way from home”
Yesterday, when perusing the internet, I happened across an article by an expert of babies about why we shouldn’t teach self soothing. Now, the content of the article isn’t what I’m angry about per se, I’m picking on this article…
