It’s the summer holiday, the sun is shining, you are near a beach, a day at the beach is top of your list. It’s your happy place, you can lie on the warm sand while your children run around and…
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As I am close to entering my second set of teen year parenting, my 12-year-old son is already starting to act like a bona fide teen with mood swings, door slamming, having to have the final word and generally being appalled…
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Now that my ‘baby’ is rapidly heading for her seventh birthday and my eldest his twenty-first, I have been looking back at my twenty or so years of parenting and thinking back to those lovely parenting books that I read…
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Three weeks to go. This phrase has been used quite a few times this weekend as we are all counting down to the joy that is the summer holidays. We are really lucky as both my husband and I work…
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My 12-year-old son knows everything. In fact, he knows more than me. Or at least he thinks he does. I am pretty sure that in a few short years, he may well know more than me but I still play…
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Should we let our children swear? When it comes to swearing, I have had two very different experiences with my children. My eldest son did not swear around me. Even though I knew he swore when he was around his…
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Just lately treading on eggshells is a phrase that often comes to mind. Maybe it is a phase that you go through with children of a certain age. The onset of teenage years is close and it is certainly making…
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There is a new development in parenting and it comes in the form of an electric plug and a cable. Chargers. Chargers have become an essential part of life. Each and every device has one. All with different bloody cables…
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Watching my children growing up all too quickly, I was thinking about the differences between my sons and their. After so many years with just boys, it still amazes me a little that I have a daughter and she is so…
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Hello and welcome to my blog. I'm Nikki, mum of four, wife, teacher, writer and drinker of many cups of tea. This blog is pretty much anything that pops into my head, an eclectic mix of family life and lots more. Grab a cuppa and have a read.
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