Category: Health

  • Should dog licensing be reintroduced in the UK?

     In the last week alone, we’ve had two run-ins with dogs where the owners were unable to control their pets. Yesterday, we went for a walk at Heartwood Forest near St Albans, which is a Mecca for dog walkers and for kids wanting to build dens. On our way back to the car a dog…

  • Would you eat your own placenta?

    I personally wouldn’t and the mere thought of it makes me gag. Earlier in the week I was watching ‘How to be a good mother’ hosted by Sharon Horgan. Sharon, like many of us, was questioning her own parenting skills and went to visit 6 mothers who have very different approaches to parenting. Introducing the…

  • How to talk to a complete stranger?

    Nearly broke my heart today. My daughter asked to go to a soft play centre, which is equivalent to hell for me. However, in an attempt to be a good mother, I said no problem, but I explained that we would be going on our own and wouldn’t know anyone there. She said she wasn’t…

  • At what age do children become self conscious of how they look?

    Firstly, I must preface that this has nothing to do with the particular parent, child or their parenting skills.  It could have been any child even my own. We were at a Christmas party on the weekend.  There was a pretty little 4-year old girl in a lovely party dress.  She accidentally spilled a glass…

  • Stranger Danger!

    I’m not one for giving unsolicited parenting advice, as parenting is not my forte, but I genuinely believe this is very good advice. My daughter is only 4; she knows our house number but not the name of the street, she can count to 30 and back but would never be able to recite my…