Tag: parenting
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Friday 5: Top Parenting Quotes
I’m not normally a huge fan of quotes, especially when people tweet inspirational quotes on my timeline. However, over the years I’ve come across a few parenting quotes that either resonated with me or made me laugh and thought I’d share them with you. ‘Toddlers are like airports without control towers’. ~ Dr Christopher Green…
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Things you shouldn’t say to your kids
I was walking to Sainsbury’s the other day, it’s just around the corner, and came across a mum, possibly a 2-3 year old in the stroller and their dog, suitably on a lead. The dog was whimpering a bit, nothing really. But then I heard the child from the pram say ‘shut up’ to the…
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Smothering not Mothering!
I’m convinced some mums secretly enjoy their children being clingy. *runs for cover* On the weekend I took my daughter to a children’s production. It was a lovely story of a dad, with a wild imagination who got up to all kinds of mischief. At the beginning of the play, the father is asleep on…
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Maybe being a perfect parent isn’t such a good idea….
Do I take my daughter to see her daddy in hospital? This was a question I struggled with recently. As many of you are aware my husband was involved in a road traffic accident and sustained substantial head injuries; not a phone call any loved one ever wants to receive late on a Friday night. …
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Lies we tell our kids!
As parents we’re not always perfect and at times are pushed to be creative with the truth; eg. Telling them the park’s closed, sheep are wooly pigs and that wine is ‘Mummy’s Brain Juice’. What’s the worst/best thing you have ever told your kids? Feel free to add them to the comments section. Here are…