Parent Gossip

Oh my goodness, its nearly school holiday time again - the year really is flying by. But in a few weeks the kids will be breaking up for Easter and for 2 weeks my son will need to be entertained.  If the weather is good I’ll have no problem. He loves the park so a [...]

We live in a world where there’s too much to do and not enough time to do it in.  Evenings are spent racing home from work, making the tea with one hand helping with homework with the other and taking the dog for a walk if you get a spare minute!
Weekends are then left to [...]

I have a fabulous Mum and I am a Mummy.  So it gets difficult to know what to do to keep everyone happy.  Luckily I managed have my son despite it being his Dads weekend.  He gave me a lovely bunch of daffodils and a card - or the more special because he’d made it [...]

It was my birthday last week so as a family we arranged to go out to a rather lovely Italian restaurant.  The kids can build their own pizzas and the food for adults is good too so - result - everyone happy!
However, my son who is only 7 ,is slowly picking up from me that [...]

Is it really wrong to take kids out of school when they are only 7?  When they are in all the top groups and doing really well?
My son has just been on a skiing trip with his Dad in term time.  Obviously this was unauthorised by the school and understandably so but he’ll have a [...]