When you’re looking after a little person, you’ve always got stories. Not a day goes by without something story-worthy happening, and that’s probably partly because the way the little people see the world around them – with constant joy and wonder – is the way we mums see them. Their amazement at watching a worm [...]
Wrigglebot had his first day at 3 year old activity group on Monday. I had to pack a lunch, I had to cover a book, I felt like my little Wrigglebot had suddenly grown up. I went to drop him off prepared for tears and so I stuck around for a little bit until he [...]
I sometimes think of what I might be if I was born in another place and time. Something that would utilise my unique talents and abilities. Maybe a queen, but I don’t quite have the diplomacy for that, perhaps a revolutionary, a scientist or an explorer, personally I would have loved to have been a [...]
I had stupidly thought the older your child, the more manageable life would be – this is not so (so far anyway) and life with Toddzilla is becoming increasingly difficult. I am beginning to wonder now if I made the most of that little baby that would stay on her blanket just where I put [...]
Disciplining is hard work and it’s hard to know what to do and how to react at times. It’s hard to judge motive in little ones who can’t talk and even when they can, they sometimes still can’t explain why they did something. So we guess, sometimes we’re right and many times we are wrong [...]