Over the last few days, I have seen my usually happy and confident eight-year-old son become irritable and introverted and I have had a real panic attack! The reason? Grade one piano exam. He has been so stressed about it…
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Do you ever get sick of the sound of your own voice? I certainly do. I’m sure that my children get sick of it too and probably think that I get some sort of pleasure from nagging. I don’t. They go…
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You might look at me and not know that I’m a proud mummy of four. The small gang of children that I have attached to my hip does give it away, but there are other clues too if you look…
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I am sure I am not the first person and I will not be the last, but when is a good time to let children go out to play? When I say out to play, I mean out of the…
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Earlier this evening, I was lying on the bean bags watching a little bit of television with my two-year-old daughter and the answer to that question came to me. She got up and threw herself at me, put her arms…
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Today is my little girl’s first morning at playgroup. She is two. She is absolutely and definitely the last child to be produced by this worn out old body. She is a happy, confident, chatty sociable little girl and I…
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Yes I know she is cuter than me, probably has nicer clothes than me, definitely looks a lot better on t-shirts than me, but do you know what, along with her sisters of consumerism: Peppa Pig and Minnie Mouse, I’m…
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It has been a whole new ball game for me having a little girl. With my first three pregnancies, I instinctively knew that they were boys. It made things easier in some ways. Although they are all completely unique and…
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I was going to call this post; ‘Mobile phones are bad for your children’, but I thought that that might be misleading as I have little knowledge of the effects of mobile phones on children. Well apart from one that…
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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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