Childhood Curiosity
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Has anyone ever walked on water?
It’s the summer holidays and we have done remarkably well. Let me repeat that…remarkably well. We have had some challenges, I can’t deny that, but we have navigated through them better than I ever imagined. However, I was aided with all my new knowledge and patience, and I was prepared (as much as possible) with Continue reading
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How quick has this year gone?
There were so many times when my son said things that were so much older than he actually was. And this was one of those times. We were driving to school with his favourite song on and I could see he had his fingers crossed and he looked at me, sighed and said: “How quick Continue reading
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Maths and The Many Many Questions of My Child!
What is 50 add 15? This question is just one example of the questions we are currently in a phase of. I say phase but I’m not sure it will ever end, if anything the questions are getting more intense and more prevalent. For around 3 months every single day we get questions like: Is Continue reading
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The Tooth Fairy and The Many Many Questions of My Child?
Firstly let me apologise in advance for the number of tooth puns in this post. I can promise you they are acci-dental!!!! My son is at that age where he is losing his baby teeth. One fell out a while ago but he lost it at school. He said it fell out first thing so Continue reading
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Why do you ask so many questions?
Ironic huh. This is actually what my son asked me one day as we were getting in the car to set off for school. I literally stopped in my tracks as I couldn’t believe my ears. Here I was writing about the questions he asked me and he thought I asked him a lot of Continue reading
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Have I got a hole in my bum?
If you read last week’s post you will know that my son resurrected an old question about his eyes. The eye question used to be asked frequently when he was around 3 years old. After he resurrected it I started thinking about other questions he had asked frequently which I had forgotten* about (*blocked out) Continue reading
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Have I got one eye or two eyes?
We were on our way out, going Ten Pin Bowling in the car at the weekend and my son asks: Have I got one eye or two eyes, Mam? My body immediately had a reaction. I went into fight or flight mode. I started to come out in a cold sweat. I had palpitations. I Continue reading
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Mum, how long did it take you to get to 40 years old?
I wanted to answer wistfully with “in the blink of an eye” but knowing my son like I do he would then stop blinking just incase it made him turn 40 years old. My answer was simply “it has taken me 40 years to get to 40 years old.” But what does that actually mean….let Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 