Family Life
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How Do You Get a Baby?
That question.The one every parent dreads. I’d been expecting it, but I was especially nervous about hearing it from my son. His thirst for information is endless — once he’s curious about something, he wants to know everything. One question always leads to another, and then another, and then another. There are no shortcuts, no Continue reading
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What happens if the banks run out of money?
Recently my son developed a new special interest: money. For a couple of weeks, we spent hours talking about it, counting it, stacking it, and recounting it. Then he went on holiday with his dad—the longest we had ever been apart. While he was away, my mind wandered, as any parent’s would: “Will he be Continue reading
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How old is the maths tutor?
A Parenting Story of Calm Chaos and GCSEs This post follows on quite nicely from my one last week about my son and his no filter and the fact he talks loudly. Not only does this story capture the essence of what I was talking about last week, it also captures (or at least I Continue reading
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How Do You Parent a Child Who Notices Everything?
How much notice of things do you actually take? My son notices everything—and I mean everything. Whether it’s a small change in his surroundings or something new about a person, his attention to detail never misses a beat. He can walk into a room and immediately know if I’ve moved something; it’s almost as though Continue reading
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How do you make money?
We were about to go to the seaside for an afternoon and were planning on going in the arcades so my son was counting out all his 2ps for the 2p slots. He spent ages looking for the 2ps amongst all his other change and then he asked me… “How do you make money?” This Continue reading
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Did you have a nice Christmas and New Year?
We all know the score don’t we. For a couple of weeks after the big day and New Year when you see new people, people you haven’t seen since last year they say… “Did you have a good Christmas and New Year?” And I always wonder are they really interested, like really interested or do Continue reading
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Christmas and The Many Many Questions of My Child!
Yes, it’s that most wonderful time of the year isn’t it!? And I absolutely love Christmas, or I certainly did. It used to give me a warm fuzzy feeling every year and more often than not I couldn’t sleep on Christmas Eve for excitement. I was Mrs Christmas – trees up early, presents sorted and Continue reading
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What is a daydream?
It had been a long, long day (aren’t most of them nowadays) and I knew I had a long way to go. I had been playing headers with my son where I throw a small ball and he heads it. This was the new version of goalkeepers that he liked to play. He then wanted Continue reading
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Can I sleep at Grandma’s?
All children sleep at their grandparents at some point, right? Well not my son, not really. My daughter slept at my mams, her Grandma’s a lot. And she loved it. Absolutely loved it. She had her own bedroom there and it was home from home really. The same never really happened for my son. As Continue reading
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Can we look through my photo book?
All families have their traditions and its usually an activity or pattern of behaviour that reflects a family’s values, interests, or beliefs. It can be as simple as hanging the Christmas stocking up together at Christmas, or having a caterpillar cake every year on your birthday or getting a photo book every year!! We have Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 