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I recently posted about categories of mums including ”competitive” mums. Naively I wondered why mums were getting so stressed about the achievements of their young children. Then I read a letter in Nursery World describing how a private prep school sends a 24 page document to parents of children joining its reception class stating that before [...] This week I read a great post from blogger Plan B in response to an article by Lucy Cavendish in The Observer. LC was writing about the “battle” between mums who parent in different ways and Plan B countered that she’d never experienced anything like this in the blogging community. As part of this discussion, blogger Deer [...] There have been no posts for a couple of weeks because we have been away: visiting husband M in Dhaka, Bangladesh where he is working, then staying with friends in Dubai on the way back through. Dhaka is not a normal family half-term destination and I think some of the playground mums considered me mad to [...] For three days last week my son B (3) was ill. Nothing serious, he was bright in himself, but enough to keep him from his mornings at nursery. Apart from the school runs that top and tail the day, I didn’t leave the house. I didn’t go outside the village boundary. That might sound limiting, [...] This morning I went to Town. I don’t like going to Town. I’ve adapted to living next to cows and green fields so that in Town I feel claustrophobic. It felt crowded; there were students everywhere, making me feel old in their frighteningly fashionable clothes. There were roadworks and ambulances and runners and cyclists and [...] Isn’t it depressing when, trying to clean the house, your children manage to mess up where you’ve been by the time you get to the other end of the room. In the same way I feel for the workmen resurfacing a road in our village. As it goes down the tarmac is black and glossy, the [...] So far Friends for Tea hasn’t been much success. One child was crying before we even got home, freaked out by our chaotic school run with Baby J arching her back and screaming in protest at being shoved from car seat to buggy and back again. Once home, however, they did all have a wonderful [...] When your first child starts school it’s as much of a change for you as it is for them. Days are dictated by a fixed schedule and you have new challenges to face. One of these is Friends for Tea. My son has just started asking to have friends over for tea after school. I’ve discovered [...] There are days when you feel life is tough. I think I’ve been having a tough time lately. My husband is working away for three weeks so I’m at home alone with the three children. The boys seem to be permanently antagonistic and aggressive, there’s always one shouting, crying, pushing, thumping, hurt. Neither the carrot [...] |
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