Parent Gossip

Have you ever sat in a restaurant or cafe and watched children eat with their families.  Because they are in public the parents will take great pains to berate their children for poor table manners ‘Sit up straight at the table!’ ‘Hold your knife and fork properly!’ ‘Where are your manners!?!’  The children often look [...]

It’s almost back to school time! Time to trawl the shops for school uniform bargains and pray that they still have Witchling 10 and Witchling 12 size shirts and blazers in stock!
I went to schools that didn’t have a school uniform. I never wore a blazer or a tie to school, while my sister [...]

The Witchlings have been on Holiday with Grandmera and Grapper.  A wonderful opportunity for us to save some serious cash on childcare over the summer holidays.  This is the diary tht Witchling 12 kept over her week away.
Dear diary
Sunday day time
We started our holiday today we went to look at the beaches. And we went [...]

Thankfully, incidents of paedophilia are still comparatively rare, but that doesn’t stop us lying awake fretting about it. Paedophiles are not strange looking men in manky raincoats, as the stereotype would have us believe.  They come from all sections of society, and can be respected members of the community in positions of high power and [...]

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 [...]

Everyone of us has felt angry at some time or another.  But few of us stop to look at where it really comes from.  It is a secondary emotion.  It has it’s roots in frustration, guilt, embarrassment, or any number of other negative emotions.  On occasion, it has been commented on, by people who are [...]

“Long ago you came to me,
a miracle of firsts,
First smiles and teeth and baby steps,
a sunbeam on the burst.
But one day you will move away
and leave to me your past,
And I will be left thinking of
a lifetime of your lasts.”
Karen Kingsbury
These are thought provoking words. I was not present at The Witchling’s births and [...]

It’s never too soon to start planning a birthday party for your little people.  I have come up with my own ultimate survival guide for the planning and preparation of a stress free Birthday Bash for kids.
Trust me when I say that planning well in advance pays off.  We live in a high speed hectic [...]

The Witchlings are being joined this week by two new family members.  They are twins and they are just 8 weeks old.

It seems like only yesterday that I came sleepily down stairs one Saturday morning, only to have my toes savagely attacked by a small ball of tabby fluff.  That ball of fluff grew [...]

If you have a little person who is starting school in September you will understand what a dilemma mums and dads face knowing how much your little person should know or be able to do before the big day.
Some children are already starting to read and write letters and numbers and can count to 20 [...]