Our little son was very good at communicating his need to watch tv before he could even speak. As 15 month olds they communicated with us via sign language as we had taught them from age seven months basic signs for milk,various animals,food,‘more’,‘help’. We made up easy signs when required and [...]
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I’ve been revising my knowledge of Gina Ford’s baby routines like a fiend since getting a new copy of her latest edition of the ‘The New Contented Little Baby Book:The Secret to Calm and Confident Parenting‘. When we first had the twins 5 years ago I was ready to put both babies out [...] Our twin children start at school tomorrow. For a couple of years we have wondered whether educating them at home instead of sending them to school would be best for our family. The question first arose when we lived and worked in London and weren’t particularly happy with the idea of them attending the local [...] My son really disliked peas. The way to get him to finally after years of cajoling him try some and announce ‘Yum!’was staightforward but long winded in the extreme. I had to sow peas,grow peas,stake the peas,have the children pick the peas,shell the peas and only then did he feel [...] Last month my daughter and I decided to create a mini pond in our rented garden with the hope of finding some frogspawn to come and live in it. We built the pond from an inexpensive ‘tub trug’and placed loads of rocks in it and around it so the small creatures could get in [...] Edie and I watched some ladybirds ‘cuddling’last week and photographed them. Later in the week when we found our newly flowering aquilegas were covered in aphids I suggested we go on a ladybird hunt as they are good at eating all the aphids. We were both a little surprised to find one who [...] My poor four year olds were back at their idyllic village pre-school yesterday after a two (or was it three?) week Easter break. Each day I’ve picked them up at 3pm only to have both of them wailing,refusing to get in the car and generally melting at the tops of their voices with streams [...] A lot of lucky kids have playhouses in the garden which are smashing but they do cost a fortune. This new structure in the garden for our kids to play in cost £40 for materials (willow ‘withy wood’,twine and weed-free membrane) plus a half-day of labour. It looks quite pretty already but it should [...] I had such an inspiring post from a woman called Caz who has 5 children who admitted that getting housework done is a challenge but this very blog had inspired her. I was so flattered and so pleased that she’d written to me I thought I’d stop thinking about the garden for a while and [...] Blessed Bealers wondered if I had anything in particular I wanted to do to mark this Sunday’s Mothers’Day. After about 1 second of thought I realised I didn’t want cut flowers or to be wheeled out to a restaurant with the rest of the nation’s matriachs. Instead I’ve suggested that if the weather’s fine [...] | ||||||
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