Six Of Our Favourite Apps For Kids What are your favourite apps for kids, or your children’s favourite apps? Like most parents, I have a bit of an up and down relationship with my children’s relationships with screentime, iPad use and apps and the like. Screentime And Kids – A Force For Good I firmly…
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The going rate for the tooth fairy, and other questions
Read moreA question I found myself Googling just before Christmas: what’s the going rate for the tooth fairy? Along with when should children’s baby teeth start to fall out? And is four too early to lose teeth? (And the answers: see below, from around now and it’s early but fine, apparently!) Motherhood is full of surprises.…
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Nine alternative ways to protest (when you’re a parent of small children)
Read moreWhat are the best ways to protest when you’re a parent of small children, and can’t go to a protest march? I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week, for all the obvious reasons, mainly while I was trapped under a sleeping toddler and couldn’t even go to the kitchen (again). Like most people I…
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The nap snack delivery company and other fantasy parenting inventions
Read moreWhat invention would have the potential to completely change your life as a parent? I was thinking about this very topic of fantasy parenting inventions earlier this week, while pinned to the sofa by my sleeping toddler. Picture this scene, parents of toddlers; it might be familiar… We’d already left the house that morning –…
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51 ways to shake off the parenting blues
Read moreHow do you shake off the parenting blues? It is, apparently, Blue Monday today, which is one of those yawnsome made-up stories about it being the most depressing day of the year, due to a combination of factors involving January doing what it does best, everyone being predictably post-Christmas poor and the weather being, well,…
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Back to school: lessons I’ve learned from the first term of primary
Read moreAre you making the big and scary primary school application for your child this month? We’ve just gone back for the new term which means we are one whole term down into primary proper. It seems really odd to think that it was us last year, nervously pressing send while rocking back and forth, wailing about…
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Life lessons I’ve (accidentally) learned in 2016
Read moreIt’s fair to say 2016 has been the equivalent of the anguished face emoji about a million times over, for all the obvious and well-publicised reasons. It’s been a shocker, hasn’t it? When I had a look back at the posts I’ve written over the past 12 months, I realised that while I’ve spent a…
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