The mum taxi gets out of hand
Regular readers will know I spend an awful lot of time driving my kids round in the ‘mum taxi’. On a normal week, I do…
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CANCELLED!
I haven’t seen my son play football for his club once since Christmas. Not because I haven’t been going to his matches, but because they’ve…
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How to make slime
If you’re the parent of a tween, or maybe even a younger child, you might have heard about slime. But how do you make it?…
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My daughter and the slime
A few months ago, my daughter announced that she would like to make slime. I had no idea what slime was, but if you’re a…
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This week, last week
June is always a busy month for us. We have two birthdays and other stuff just keeps cropping up all the time. Our lives are…
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‘They’ll have to give something up’
Naively, I thought the extra-curricular activities might be easier to juggle this term. My daughter would be back to one ballet class a week, after…
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(Not) Watching stuff
The first time you see your tiny Reception child up on stage dressed as a shepherd in a tea towel or an angel with tinsel…
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Strange weekends
During the approximately eight months of the year that constitute the winter (in kids’ sport terms, if not other terms), you will often find me…
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February half-term
No guitar lesson, contemporary dance, ballet or Scouts on Monday. No tutor or Explorers on Tuesday. No choir, rugby or street dance on Wednesday. No…
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Tough decisions
Sometimes, making decisions isn’t easy. Especially when you’re 9, going on 10. My daughter is at age now where she’s having to make what seems…
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The cost of kids
If you’ve got babies or toddlers and you’re longing for the end of nappies so that your life can get cheaper, I’m sorry to say…
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Letting it go
As things to wake up at 4.30 worrying about go, it was pretty lame. But I couldn’t get it out of my head and it…
