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…
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Help, My Child Won’t Wear A Coat! How To Deal With Cold Weather Coat-Refusers
Help, My Child Won’t Wear A Coat! If Your Child Won’t Wear A Coat, Here’s How To Deal With Cold-Weather Coat-Refusers, A Six Part Strategy 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…
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Am I Done Having Babies? How Do You Know For Sure?
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…
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17 completely unspectacular things I’ve done in 2017
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…
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Why we love the library (and seven reasons why you should love it too…)
Seven Reasons Why We Love The Library ‘Libraries gave us power…’ sang the Manic Street Preachers in what’s still one of the best songs ever (right?). The library played a massive, and massively empowering, role in my own childhood and for so many people I know. And all these years on we love the library…
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Five things: Christmas charity campaigns to support this festive season
Looking For A Christmas Cause? Here Are Five Christmas Charity Campaigns If you’re looking to donate to a good cause this Christmas, here are five Christmas charity campaigns for giving back. Christmas Jumper Day for Save The Children: Christmas jumper day is a-coming on Friday 15th December, and is the annual festive charity celebration organised by…
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In praise of Tamara Ecclestone, or why I’m breastfeeding my three-year-old
Tamara Ecclestone is back on TV again, something I know about not because I’ve seen her new reality programme, but because the press is reacting with horror at the fact that she is still breastfeeding her daughter, in it – and daring to talk, openly and in public, about breastfeeding a three-year-old *shocked face*. I…