The Politics Of Parenting
It’s Election Day 2015 – who are you voting for? Here’s my thoughts on the policies of the main parties from a parent’s perspective…
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Our (baby-free) escape to the country
Find out what happened when we left Baby B with his grandpa and escaped to the Cotswolds!
Our Perfect Easter Weekend.
Hnnnnfghh Eamnnuchh Everyone! Sorry. Mouth full of chocolate. Happy Easter Everyone! How’s it going? Living up to the TV advertising dream? Four days of family fun, running like clockwork, cooking endless delicious meals with one hand while putting the finishing touches to your Easter bonnets. Adding each child’s […]
Parents – Are You Making Time For You?
I’d like you to try a little thought experiment. Cast your mind back to before you had children. Struggling? Maybe you need some props. Get the baby monitor and put that annoying wave sound on. Now get an alcoholic drink. Wait, don’t just knock it back! Blimey. OK. […]
My First Day Out Alone With A Baby
Today when we opened the blinds the sky was blue (well actually it was dark at 6am but it got better) so I decided to get out for a walk with Baby B. Last week I wrote about ideas for entertaining a toddler and one of them was […]
How to entertain a toddler
Babies are easy to please. No really they are. For most of the first year they lie down in one place and enjoy looking at faces, sparkly dangly things, the sky, lights. And sometimes they sleep. Even when they start crawling a cardboard box or a wooden spoon […]
Are We Getting Enough Sex (Education)?
Spoiler alert: Before you get too excited or worried this post isn’t about my sex life. I’m not a fan of moral panics, unlike the media, but I’ve been picking up on a growing wave of concern about young people and how they learn about sex. It doesn’t help […]
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