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I have been writing recently about why children need risk. In The Sunday Times (4 July 2010) there was an article about an interesting aspect of this. Two parents had decided to let their children, aged 8 and 5, cycle to school alone. They live in Dulwich. They were cycling along pavements and only crossed one road, with [...] At Sunday School we are having very interesting discussions which are challenging and inspiring both adults and children. We are thinking about the nativity story behind the Christmas card scene; what it was like for Mary who was probably a young teenager, giving birth for the first time away from home and family; how it [...] My six year old has his first loose tooth. His is delighted. Losing teeth is the most popular subject in his class at school (after football cards). He said one boy spent the “whole morning” in the toilet waggling his teeth! T is completely envious of peers who have already lost a tooth but I [...] It’s typical of my over-active mind that a five minute ponder about where we could possibly fit in any new toys the children might be given at Christmas has turned into an analytical self-questioning blog! The day after I’d stood in the boys’ room wondering how I could shuffle things around to make more space, I [...] This is a follow up post to one written by Whistlejacket about having too many toys. All the comments to her post were in agreement – yes we have too many toys; yes people are too generous at Christmas but what can we do, relatives like giving children presents; yes there’s no need to buy [...] In his book Superpowers for Parents (click here for my review), Dr Stephen Briers writes “The pace of our modern world conditions our children to expect everything instantly…most children play computer games that deliver a rapid succession of satisfying “hits” in return for very little sustained effort. One drawback of this is that today’s children [...] I’m not really into You Tube but I saw this on someone else’s blog and it did make me smile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hooid1LJ9Kc&feature=player_embedded There’s something special about the fat chuckles of babies. But I couldn’t help wondering what it was like when all four cried at once! Having three children can be chaotic but, interestingly, I feel a third child has brought balance and almost calm to our family because of the relationships it has created. One of my favourite things about mothering is the dynamic between the children. Although boys T (5 – but 6 this month!) and B (3) fight constantly, [...] There is no doubt that parents are role models for their children. One of the saddest thing I’ve heard recently involves pupils in a school in a deprived area of Kent. A friend of mine teaches there and he told me that if you ask children in his class what they want to be when [...] |
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