Parent Gossip

Witchling 10 is sick. She is poorly sick with what is either a nasty cold, or the beginning of flu. It started at the weekend as her eyes started to stream and her nose started to bung up. Next the throat was sore and she started to feel ‘gucky’. This is a great [...]

Welcome to 2009. It’s a New Year! A chance for everyone to make a fresh start, full of great intentions for the coming 12 months.  What are you going to change?
I believe that the best new years resolutions a parent can make is to quit smoking. If the health warnings that the Government has placed [...]

Despite what many believe, choosing to give children a vegetarian diet does not mean that they will not grow, or that they will not get the nutrition that they need. In fact it means that they have access to a varied, healthy, morally sound range of foods that provides all of the nutrients necessary for [...]

The first dose of whooping cough vaccination is given at two months old, and recently two young children have died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, presumed to have contracted it from their siblings or parents but they were too young to have had the vaccine yet.
Experts have now said that parents [...]

1 in 10 children in the UK are living in poverty, growing up in overcrowded, cramped housing, or in ‘temporary accomodation’ that sees them shunted from place to place with little stability or hope for a future. What is worse, 3.8 million children are living in poverty in the UK even after their housing costs [...]

Witchling 12 has gone off crisps! The queen of all things deep fried and salty has done a complete u-turn and is now demanding carrots and chunks of cucumber as snacks.   Her packed lunch this morning consisted of 2 raw carrots, a large chunk of cucumber, a chicken mayo sandwich and a yoghurt.  She took [...]

In the news today, are calls from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for a new approach to children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).  They argue that with proper training and lessons for parents and teachers on coping with the unruly behaviour that goes along with ADHD would be more effective [...]

It’s Autumn already and the football is on the telly all the time and the Witchlings are back at school.  They are both obsessing about hockey and netball trials and set off to school with bags bulging with towels and tracksuits and netball skirts and football socks in preparation to do battle on the playing [...]

More and more children are suffering from ADHD and other behavioural problems and the number of children taking Ritalin is also on the rise. There may be many factors causing this. Too much screen time and not enough exercise, divorce, working parents, SATs and exam pressures… the list goes on. It is interesting though, that [...]

It is wonderful to see the sun shining at last this summer. People are wearing summer clothes and all around me I see smiling faces. Sunshine makes people happy. In fact most of my happiest childhood memories are of long hot summers, playing out side and having water fights with my friends [...]