Category: Parenting

  • Swimming is a life skill!

    Swimming is a life skill and should not be optional.  According to ROSPA, on average 40-50 children drown per year in the UK. I know someone who, when he was at primary school, hated swimming lessons, I don’t know if it was because he was self-conscious of his body or what, but his mother would wrote him…

  • Monster rearing it’s ugly head!

    The monster has reared his ugly head again in our house but this time it’s in the toilet.  A few months back we had a problem with Madame developing a fear of the little buggers in her room at night but with the help of a monster detector and a few nightlights I thought we’d…

  • Teach your kids a foreign language!

  • Traveling with kids in London

    I overheard a rather interesting conversation today at work, obviously two blokes in their early 20s without kids. They were fuming about mums on trains/tubes with prams, saying that they should have to pay for the prams, just like cyclists have to pay to take their bikes. Is that actually true? I have had the…

  • Dad’s race!

    My husband really makes me laugh sometimes.  I never took him for a competitive dad.  We went to our daughter’s school fair on Saturday, our first one in fact.  There was a wheel barrow race.  Not competing against others directly but a timed one.  The person with the highest score wins. The first thing Hubby…