Today I have an interesting guest post from Quib.ly which is an amazing website dedicated to helping parents get to grips with the technology their children are using. This post is about the different apps that our older children are…
Read More »I am a big believer in letting children be children. That might sound like a funny thing to say, but I see more and more examples of parents who allow their children to grow up too quickly. That doesn’t mean…
Read More »The teenager has another job. He is very pleased about this as it will see him earning over two pounds an hour more and as he is quickly discovering the real cost of owning a car, he is looking forward…
Read More »I go on a lot about reading in this blog. There are two reasons for this. Firstly because I love reading and I always have and secondly because I think that reading is such an important thing to encourage to…
Read More »I was having a discussion on Twitter the other day and used my well-worn phrase that ‘there weren’t enough hours in the day’. I use it a lot as it is so true, there aren’t and someone suggested that we…
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Yes I know, I know, I don’t look young enough to have a child of eighteen (even though I feel about eighty myself most days) but I do. Yesterday, the teenager officially became a man, which is a very scary…
Read More »This is a question that genuinely interests me as it is one that my husband frequently discuss and one which we often disagree about too. It has also been on my mind recently too due to the extreme amount of…
Read More »I have noticed a really strange pattern of events forming in this house and in fact when I think back it has been happening for some time. Everything is my fault. Yes everything. Child stubs toe on piece of furniture….
Read More »This evening I sat down at the computer to do my two school admission forms. One for R who makes the move to middle school next September and one for A who starts school at the same time. I hadn’t…
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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.
Nikki
