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What Happens As Your Children Grow Older. According To Me.

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  This post is prompted by a wonderful post I read a while back by Mr & Mrs T Plus 3 which set the old thinking wheels in motion. It’s also a little bit triggererd by the post I wrote yesterday about parent blogging. Whilst this site isn’t meant to be dominated by parenting stuff, I guess its a pretty natural and easy subject for me to touch upon. I put ‘According to me’ in the title, simply because it is, according to me. I am not the parenting oracle or anything, but I can happily let my fingers type up…

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Is Brutal Honesty In Parent Blogging Always Warranted?

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  “Honest parent blogging” – is it always useful and helpful to read? Or is it just a cheap shot at our offsprings expense dressed up as brilliant writing? This is the question I’ve just been pondering in the shower. Let me explain … For years now, I have been following some pretty amazing parent bloggers. Bloggers who have an amazing literary ability to highlight all aspects of parenting; the great times, the funny bits (a few rude bits thrown in for good measure) and a sprinkling of the darker times too. It’s those bloggers who, whilst immersing themselves in the beauty…

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Long-Haul Travel with Children

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If you are considering your first big long-haul trip with your family – I hope this might help a little. I know that the thought of travel with a young family can be daunting one, but it needn’t be. We travel with our 4 children a lot. I can honestly say that with a little careful planning, travelling with little ones can actually be so much fun. I am personally truly addicted to holidays and wouldn’t miss the opportunity for adventurous family time for all the tea in china! So, does a long-haul flight and change in time-zones really have…

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Don’t look now : Your family is changing fast.

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Yesterday, something profound occurred : Something slightly painful and sad actually. And you know, I’m really glad it did. Whilst looking for an old contact number, I fished my old Blackberry from the depths of our ‘device graveyard’ as it’s referred to around here. It’s been in there for around 3 years, waiting for me to download its important contents. Suffice to say that so far, I haven’t bothered. No spare time for such efficient luxury. So I plug in the charger and fire up what seems like an old dinosaur, with its tiny buttons and even tinier screen. And its…

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20 SIGNS THAT YOU’RE SO NOT DONE HAVING BABIES

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Following on from my own post 20 SIGNS THAT YOU’RE DONE HAVING BABIES, my lovely friend thought she would counter it with her own list. She wishes to remain nameless for this post (to save her rep and marriage!) so I will make an executive decision and christen her AnonyMiss  … 20 SIGNS THAT YOU ARE SO NOT DONE HAVING BABIES 1. You stare longingly at every child under the age of 5. 2. You offer to babysit for friends’ babies, friends of friends’ babies, friends of friends of friends’ babies. 3. You refuse to throw away your big baby items…

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20 SIGNS THAT YOU’RE DONE HAVING BABIES

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1.  You have run out of bedrooms. 2. You want to begin wearing heels again, during the day, on a week day even. Because they are cool and grown up. Sophisticated ladies wear them -you know the sort, the kind that you view from afar, she is probably carrying a nice handbag in one hand with a starbucks in the other. 3.  Whilst shopping in toys ‘r’ us, you quite happily walk past the baby section and notice that you feel a little sorry for the pregnant/and or tired browsers that you might typically see pondering the pro’s and cons of BPA free stuff.…

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