Over the last few weeks I have felt as though I am banging my head off a brick wall. Jake has always been more free with his hands than Rachel, but over the last six months or so, I have noticed that he rarely hits, kicks or pushes anymore. Since summer holidays started though I [...]
They say you can raise the perfect child, until they mix with other children. Over the last few weeks I have had some detailed insight into that topic. Over the last month or so Rachel has been playing outside almost every hour that she isn’t in nursery. She has become so sociable, and it is [...]
I love our local library. Its a fun, educational place to take the kids….and even better its free!? We got Jake his first library card when he was only two months old and Rachel was just turned two and ever since we have been regular visitors.? Our local library is very small, but the librarian [...]
Last week I told you that we had decided to take Jake out of night time nappies (diapers) and were anticipating a few weeks of wet sheets and blankets before he got the hang of it. Once again we had underestimated our child and a week and a half later, he has had one very [...]
For anyone interested in homeschooling, why not jump over and have a look at the Carnival of Homeschooling. Its really informative and contains some very high quality links (including one to us of course). A great one for any current homeschoolers or anyone interested in starting.
What makes this story even more strange is the fact that I’m not even looking for a job! A few years ago I was asked to sit on the Advisory Group for our local Parenting Forum. I gladly accepted and up until I had Baby D I attented almost all of the meetings and enjoyed [...]
Last year Gerard and I both attended a positive parenting course. Not because we were having any great problems or difficulties with our children, but just in a bid to educate ourselves and hopefully improve our parenting technique. One area we looked at in great detail was that of discipline. Gerard and I were both [...]
Ray just loves story CDs. But she only has a few and they can be quite expensive to buy, so i was thrilled to come across this link to websites with free downloadable mp3 stories perfect for the iPod. I am going to download a few tonight and let her listen to them in the [...]
I just read this post on Lucky Mom?about child safety. She summarises a child safety programme which she recently attended and reminds us that when it comes to child abuse, 70-90% of abusers are aquaintances of the child. This topic terrorises me. It gives me sleepless nights and plagues my mind during the day. I [...]
Ray has been a fussy eater from the word go. I’m not sure whether she was born that way, or if it is because she was our first child and I was very cautious and unimaginative in what I fed her in her early months. She eats the same dinner almost every night: Potatoes with [...]
