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What manners can make, coming untied and a half-empty moment. Things I learned.

March 4, 2019 By Ellen

It’s been an educational few days. Here’s what I learned: As a parent, manners aren’t always what you want. This morning’s dull commute was considerably enlivened by the presence of an appealing and articulate toddler chatting to his mother about grapes, tractors and the understandable excitement of being on a railway train. And then it […]

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On being useful, pet potty training and a waste of money, things I’ve learned

January 31, 2019 By Ellen

I thought that blog comments were out of style – so last year – turns out that I just wasn’t writing posts that anyone had anything to say about. So that’s something I learned. People will talk to you if stop trying too hard and just say what’s on your mind. Other things I learned […]

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How do we talk to children about Trump?

January 16, 2019 By Ellen

This was written two years ago, but still applies. Only now we can add Brexit into the mix as something scary that makes no sense to anyone, especially children. “Donald Trump scares me,” said Boy Three, tousled from his bed and clutching a toy penguin. The statement was more alarming than the news that something […]

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Dispatches from the bunker… just after the famous football game where you think it might turn out fine in the end

January 6, 2019 By Ellen

Well, happy new-year-new-you one and all. It’s still peachy here. You know why, don’t you? It’s because we’ve just been off for a few days of ‘sod it, it’s Christmas’ and the cold hard realities are just mustering themselves ready to pounce. So to celebrate the fact that true hostilities haven’t yet resumed, it’s time […]

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14 years at the school gates: what I have learned so far….

September 13, 2018 By Ellen

Update: This was written a couple of years ago – now the baby is in P5 (still cute though).   My baby, he’s all grown up. It doesn’t seem a minute since… Yada yada yada.  You know the stuff – uttered by runny-mascaraed mothers waving children off to school before returning to their bleak and […]

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