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My wild thing picks his favourite book

April 21, 2012 By Ellen

There aren’t many books I really remember having read to me in childhood – Beatrice Potter, especially the scary one with the squirrel, Anatole the French mouse and the Tiger Who Came To Tea (although I may have imagined that).  But I still remember the way I felt about Where The Wild Things Are, by […]

Filed Under: anger, bedtime stories, books, reading, toddler, Where The Wild Things Are

A momentary panic in the bedroom

April 13, 2012 By Ellen

Boy three has graduated. At the grand age of almost three he has moved from a cot and sleeping bad into a Big Boy bed under a quilt.We had been considering it for a while, mostly because he had grown so much. He was starting to look faintly silly in the same way a dainty […]

Filed Under: babies, sleep, toddler

You know you live with a toddler when…

March 26, 2012 By Ellen

For two mornings in a run, you wake up with “There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden, and his name is Wiggly Woo.” going through your head.You find yourself sitting cross-legged on the floor in the Glasgow Science Centre singing Old Macdonald and you don’t fear arrest. It’s not uncommon to prepare a breakfast […]

Filed Under: boys, toddler Tagged With: family, in my life, parenting, Something happened in my life

Potty training for reluctant parents… please

March 22, 2012 By Ellen

If you have the entirely understandable attitude of not giving a flying fig about the continence or otherwise of my children, look away now.  But it has come to this. Boy Three is two and three quarters. He’s a big lad, he communicates well (and frequently) (and forcefully) and as far as I can see […]

Filed Under: babies, potty training, toddler

Total Wipeout – the domestic version

February 29, 2012 By Ellen

Of course there’s a monkey on the light fitting This morning has been something of a trial. Properly testing the little ship of equanimity I’d sailed out of my yoga weekend in. Huge gusts of crabbiness were threatening to dump me in the ocean of irritability.Then I realised. It’s just a game. Total Wipeout for […]

Filed Under: boys, family, toddler

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