Have You Heard The Parenting Quote ‘You Only Get 18 Summers With Your Child.’? Here’s Why I Hate It Here’s why I won’t be getting perspective about spending one of our ’18 delicious summers’ with my children…and why I hate the parenting quote about ‘you only get 18 summers.’ Have You Heard The Quote About…
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Ten Ways to Protest as a Parent, When The World Seems Terrible
Want to know how you can protest as a parent? Here are ten tangible things you can do to protest as a parent, when the world seems terrible. Because this week I’ve been mainly despairing about the state of society, which seems increasingly dreadful, while feeling helpless…you too? There’s a good summary over on Cup…
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Happy Father’s Day Dad; you were right about EVERYTHING
There’s nothing like becoming a parent to make you realise a couple of things: 1) It’s inevitable that you will, to some extent, turn into your own parents, In fact, you probably already have 2) How right your parents were about most things. It’s fairly typical to go through that teenage phase where you think…
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What’s your secret single behaviour, as a mum? On Sex and the City 20
Sex and the City, the ground-breaking TV programme EVERYONE loved, was first shown on our screens 20 years ago. How crazy is that?! Doesn’t it seem like getting older is just one long opportunity to repeatedly make yourself feel ancient, especially when it comes to popular culture that you’d swear was released yesterday but is…
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How not to leave the house with small children: the school run special
Two eternal questions about motherhood: Why is it so hard to leave the house with small children? (Here is my previous exploration of the topic) And… Is school – where you to have your child there on time, every day, for the rest of your foreseeable life, *sob* – a feat of impossible endurance sent…
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We Visit Down House, The Home Of Charles Darwin
We Pay A Visit To Down House, The Historical Home Of Charles Darwin Here’s What We Thought Of Down House – And A Tip For All Parents (Based On My Terrifying Experience!) We paid a visit to Down House, which is the historical home of Bromley ‘celeb’ Charles Darwin. The house – and beautiful gardens…
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The Cinema With Children: How to avoid it becoming a parenting disaster movie
Would You Take Your Children To The Cinema? We weight up the cinematic odds of taking young children to the cinema… When’s the best time to go to the cinema with children? In a dramatic turn of events; we went to the cinema last week. Together, as in me and Alex together together, shock horror.…