We’ve (well, I’ve) been going to Water Babies swimming lessons with N since he was almost 3 months old. I think that means we’re pretty qualified in sharing thoughts on the differences between baby swimming and toddler swimming (and I’m…
N loves his youngest cousin. They’re probably best friends aside from having best friends at nursery and school, even though there’s a couple of years age difference. At the moment it’s the biggest gap as his cousin’s about to turn…
With young children, there’s always that panic when things go quiet. You wonder what they’re up to, because of course it can’t be anything safe and tidy. In the mornings N rarely plays in his own room while I’m in…
Oh dear. There was me thinking N’s never thought twice about eating cow, sheep or pig. Living on a livestock farm, we’ve always been very open about what food N is eating. Exactly the same as his older cousins who…
As a working parent, there’s one thing I always dread after sending N off to nursery. Biting? Fighting? Bad language? Inappropriate actions that his dad’s taught him? Nope. It’s the dreaded nursery phone call with their name flashing out on the…
They say that children should start to show a preference for handedness by the age of 18 months. So far, at 3.5 years, I still have no clearer idea of which hand N will end up using full time Both…
However easy the child, parents always have concerns of some kind as their baby grows up. Eating’s one thing that’s always on people’s minds. It starts with the whole breast vs bottle worries – what do you want to do,…
N doesn’t really have much idea about jobs and what they are. Apart from farming obviously. And vets and tree surgeons as that’s what our lodgers do. I’m not sure he realises that the staff at nursery have a job…
Clearing and decluttering really does take a long time to do. Even worse is when you need to clear out your own house, but you’re spending your free time clearing out someone else’s. In this case, our mum’s house. We’ve…
So, food packaging. Or just packaging in general, but food packaging is my minor gripe. Usually because there’s a toddler hanging off me or climbing up on chairs to open the fridge and remove something to ease his ‘I’m hungry’…
N’s generally a really friendly child, or he is once he’s got used to people. I think it’s helped that he’s been around lots of people since really young. As a baby we spent a lot of time out and…
