As I’ve mentioned (a few times) before, N is starting school in September. I’ve been seeing on social media everyone else’s last days at preschool, and reading all about other parents’ emotional ‘end of nursery’ posts. We’re probably not the…
Note to self, in future always arrive at school events 10 minutes beforehand rather than 2 minutes before. For N’s first nativity play at day nursery, I arrived to find I was the last parent by miles to arrive, and…
As a working parent, there’s one thing I always dread after sending N off to nursery. Biting? Fighting? Bad language? Inappropriate actions that his dad’s taught him? Nope. It’s the dreaded nursery phone call with their name flashing out on the…
As a baby grows into a toddler and onwards, childhood influence is an interesting one to watch. I’m sure there are plenty of parents with older children that area despairing or pleased at their childrens’ influencers but at the moment…
Mummy gets my bag ready for nursery the night before, but I like to include my own things just as we’re walking out of the door. Anything to cause hassle and panic is great fun, although there is the danger…
N’s still got a few months to go until he moves up to the pre-school room in his day nursery as they don’t move until they’re three. But he does get to spend some time with pre-schoolers sometimes, so he’s…
Like any other nursery, ours keeps learning journals for each child. As parents we can sign them out as and when to peruse at leisure and see what they’ve been up to. Always useful when you only get a short…
You’d think N would be used to noisy mechanical equipment, having been used to tractors, diggers, quad bikes etc from a young age. But we’ve discovered that chain saws are really not a happy thing for him. His day nursery…
N’s at the amusing stage where everything’s ‘mine’. It’s always ‘MY this’, ‘My that’ or ‘MINE’ all said above normal volume. It can be a bit annoying when items clearly aren’t his, or if he’s taking offence to other children…
When I was working, it was really easy to work out what we were doing for dinner when. I tended to eat at work, N would eat at either nursery or at the farm on non-nursery days, and OH would…
For the second day on the trot, we’ve had to hang around at nursery waiting for one parent (oh ok, it’s been the mums that are the culprits) who’s hogging the person doing child handovers and day run through, while…