The You’re Doing It Wrong Podcast – And A Trip To The BBC Have you heard of the You’re Doing It Wrong podcast? Also – how easy is it to parent in an age when there are a million different sources of advice, all of it conflicting, all coming at you from hundreds of different…

Here are five truths about parenting on snow days… As the country is currently in the grips of SNOWMAGEDDON, aka the Beast from the East aka Storm Emma aka alll the weather from the past fifty winters all come at once, what better subject is there than parenting on snow days? (Seriously, has anyone talked…

Firstly, hello! I just wanted to say, well, that really, and do a kind of awkward wave via a blog post. And secondly, say apologies for the unintentional blog break and blog post drought…it just kind of happened towards the end of last year when everything got really really busy in the run-up to Christmas…

A few weeks ago it was Alex’s birthday, and a funny thing happened. We went out on his birthday. Together. While some people may be squinting at the screen and saying ‘what’s remarkable about THAT?’ For us, with a frequent night waker who will only go to sleep or re-settle for their mum or dad, it…

Help, My Child Won’t Wear A Coat! Are your children cold weather coat refusers? Do they strip down to a t-shirt at the very first touch of frost? It’s not just you (or your child who won’t wear a coat when it gets cold). Baby, It’s Cold Outside I’m one of life’s cold people (physically,…

Am I Done Having Babies? If So, How Do I Know? Question: How DO you know when you’re done having babies? Do you ever know for sure you won’t have any more children? Asking for, well, someone…who’s not sure if she’s done having babies! Because at the end of last year, Florence turned three and…

With it being so very nearly the end of the year – HOW did that happen? WHEN did that happen? Wasn’t it just the summer? Wasn’t it just…January…? –  it is, as always, a time for contemplation and reflection about the last twelve months. A popular Twitter meme at the moment calls for people to…