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Tweet I’m not sure if someone somewhere has realised that parents have the potential to be a powerful force and therefore the best way to stop us joining together and turning up at the gates of power wielding pitchforks and burning torches is to ensure that we are divided Either way it feels to me [...] 
Tweet It struck me that childcare in the UK is rather like the making things part of a Blue Peter episode You are shown the ideal of childcare that works perfectly, is flexible, affordable and child focused – you then try and re-create this perfect creation in the safety of your own home only to discover [...] 
Tweet It’s Sunday afternoon – in a world pre-children you’d have been lazing around after a long lunch, instead you find yourself dreaming of quiet time on the sofa whilst your small pot of wonder demonstrates just how cruel dropping their afternoon nap is for parents Obviously for the rest of the week you are [...] 
Tweet … or rather how we broke Littler 10 days ago she fell off a slide in the small person bit of soft play and we found out she had broken her arm – they tried to set it but left us with the less than comforting words ‘we may not have got it straight’. [...] Tweet Oh the seasonal delights of Christmas and the weeks upon weeks of enforced pre-Christmas joy – the first school event vaguely linked to Christmas was before half term and our nativity play is in November (admittedly the 29th but still NOVEMBER) Anyone with small children will know that the worst thing you can do [...] 
Tweet A week off over half term has had me musing rather more about how we do tend to set ourselves up for a fall when it comes to parenting In my head half term was going to be walks through the woods, afternoons doing jigsaws infront of the fire and family time together enjoying having to [...] 
Tweet How on earth can it be three years already since she arrived??? We always knew Littler would be special – she held on and fought so hard to stay with us during that pregnancy – the fact that she has turned out to be opinionated and stubborn really shouldn’t be a surprise… we named [...] Tweet Funny how you wait ages for something to irritate you enough to blog about it and then a whole raft of them come floating past in quick succession… The latest is the number of parents who bleat on about how unhappy it makes them to have to tell little Archibald off for pinching other [...] 
Tweet The delectable Nigella Lawson has a new TV series out so has decided to publicise it by telling the world that she is convinced that “it’s impossible to be a mother without a huge sense of failure” I mean really? Are there mothers sat out there each evening, going through the day and working [...] Tweet Whether you bottle feed or breastfeed doesn’t matter to me, I know you made the choice you did based in love for your child Whether you co-sleep or sleep train doesn’t matter to me, I know we all do the best we can to try and raise children whilst struggling through the sleep deprivation [...]  |
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