Category: Parenting

My little bilingual toddler 1

My little bilingual toddler

I belong to a Facebook group of bilingual parents and it’s great. I have talked about how I don’t know what to do about teaching Roz Tonga haven’t I? About how I despair that...

When a compliment is a veiled insult 6

When a compliment is a veiled insult

A while ago, a short video came up on one of the pages I “like” on Facebook.. I can’t remember exactly which page it was on ( I like a lot of pages) but...

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Circles and doodles

I often look on in awe as my niece, who’s six months younger than Roz, draws a circle on paper, blackboard, whiteboard and anything else she can get her hands on. My daughter could...

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Do you know the pumpkin man?

Don’t say I didn’t warn you about autumn posts because I did. So here’s my second one! The clocks went back today, so we had a bit of a lie in. Roz spent the...

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Of Chestnuts and conkers and everything Autumn.

So, Autumn is heeerrrrrreeee *singing* I love autumn. And I especially love it this year because my little girl is not a baby anymore. She’s not even a toddler. She’s a little girl. Seriously,...

My little alien and I… 2

My little alien and I…

I’ve been beating the attachment parenting drum a bit over the last two weeks due to some stuff I’ve been reading and hearing that’s made me sad. For example, someone said to me two...

from the mouths of babes… 2

from the mouths of babes…

Today, Roz and I went over to the city for a little adventure. We were in one of the shops when Roz looked up at the mannequins in the women’s department and asked, “Mummy,...

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Bad mommy, good mommy.

Bad mommy day. That was me last weekend. well, Sunday night to be exact. it was half one in the morning and Roz woke me up with her kicks and turns as per usual....