Toddlerisms #9: Hair cup
N’s coming out with new words and phrases all the time. The latest of his toddlerisms makes us laugh everytime he says it. The other day, his dad had his hair cut. It was pretty severe, going really short for…
Thoughtful discussion
Radio rocker
Today is/was Radio 2’s Today programme – all day they’re celebrating the orchestra, and on each show they’ve got different orchestral sections playing pop music and the like. Having played clarinet and saxophone (with a smattering of piano chucked in)…
Biting toddlers
Does your toddler have bad habits like biting? N doesn’t bite. On occasions when he’s playing he might go to hit me, but so far I’ve been able to just tell him that ‘hitting’ not nice, it hurts people, and…
Toddlerisms #8: MY mummy
It’s been a while since I shared some Toddlerisms on the blog. N’s been a bit slow on providing amusing phrases, but he’s started to become really protective over us, ie his mummy and daddy. Nursery is where it’s been…
Childcare Gurus
The BBC magazine website yesterday had an article about six childcare gurus who changed parenting. It was an interesting read, and although I hadn’t heard of the earlier people (pre-Penelope Leach), I’d heard of the ideas behind some earlier parenting…
The thought of swimming…
And so to Saturday again. Swimming. We love swimming now (after almost a year of hating it and having serious water wobbles from N and me), so I have to be careful in the morning not to shout too much about…
Recycling with toddlers
An aside first of all, amusingly I was going to entitle this posts “recycling toddlers”. I’m sure quite a few parents would like to try recycling theirs and swapping those with huge tantrums, with some more obedient ones?! I now…
Snoring Beauty
I’ve said it before and will say it again, N loves his sleep. And like most children, however hyper and lively they are in the daytime, they’re like a ‘snoring beauty’ when asleep, looking like butter wouldn’t melt. There’s a…
Baby proofing or not?
When you’re a parent in this day and age, you often have safety information coming at you from left, right and centre, especially once your child is mobile whether that be crawling or walking. Health visitors tend to pass on…
Slow growing feet
N’s feet have to be the slowest growing in history. I don’t think his feet have grown more than a quarter of a size (from over a 6 to just hitting a 6.5) since September. Makes for cheap shoe buying…
Summer clothing
Ok, so maybe I’m being a bit optimistic in thinking we might get warm enough weather for me to break out into some summery clothes, but I’m planning ahead in anticipation. It’s always hard for myself – I’ve got wonky…
