The worst thing when your children are at school or nursery, has to be seeing the school office number coming up on your phone. It’s happened a lot in the past. At nursery for permission to give calpol and various bumps and scrapes warnings before I turned up and was horrified (well, that one was only once). And school it seems that a bump on the head is N’s favourite method of injury. In reception year, the school got a… Continue Reading “A bump on the head / what to watch out for”
The new term at tennis is always hit and miss with N. It seems he’s now playing tennis three times a week at the moment. On Mondays at after school tennis club, on Fridays at the tennis club junior lessons (both with the same coach). And now on Fridays at school, it’s his class’ turn to have tennis from an external coach. N doesn’t seem too concerned about that, and there’s no other sports that he wants to try. Other… Continue Reading “Nervy start to a new tennis club term”
When you have a baby, the health check side of things are quite straightforward. You get notifications from your health authority when you need to make appointments. With the dentist, you just take them once their teeth come through, and the dentist prompts it when you go yourself. Then school happens and generally health checks transfer to blanket year group appointments at the school. Reception meant weight check and eye tests, then year 1 to 3 is flu spray time.… Continue Reading “A first eye test”
Ever since first playing tennis at school last year N has enjoyed the game. They have an external coach from a local club come in and do junior lessons for them, and after playing in the summer term, N was given a referral letter to play at the club. Tennis was my sport at school (before squash took over at uni and afterwards), so I’m pleased that he enjoys it so much. For a 5 year old, and thinking about… Continue Reading “Joining the tennis club and a clingy child”
I love dance. So much so that I’ve set up my dance blog to get the word going and try and encourage other people who debate about starting dance but don’t dare. My route back to dancing is a little sporadic during the summer – having a husband who works all hours 7 days a week during harvest and a 5 year old who needs babysitting, isn’t conducive to dancing twice a week. But it’s my passion and it’s great… Continue Reading “Get boys comfortable with dance – inspired by Motionhouse”
N’s been interested in the Rio Olympics since it started. When we’ve been at home, the Olympics is what has been on tv, mostly because I’m obsessed with the event. I’ve always loved big multi-sport events since childhood. I think it’s a great opportunity for children to learn more about different sports you’d never hear about otherwise. And hopefully inspire them to want to try and sport themselves. Compared with the Euros when the OH watched football non-stop, his choice… Continue Reading “The Rio Olympics according to a 5 year old”
I love my fitbit and I’ve always wanted to give it to N to see how much activity he does during the day compared to me. But instead of risking him losing my Fitbit, Leapfrog sent us a Leapband to try out. N was excited as soon as I opened the parcel up. He loves wearing a watch so the Leapband went down well immediately even before he knew it spoke to him. Yes, he’s a typical child and loves… Continue Reading “Kids get active with Leapfrog Leapband”
Until last week, I’d not felt too pressured by school non-uniform dates. World book day passed pretty easily (I had a plan for Horrid Henry, but N decided he didn’t want to dress up), non-uniform days have either been pj days or just standard non-uniform. I can cope with those. Even the nativity worked out easily with my 5 minute multi character t-shirt costume! But sports week has proved the hardest. Yes, last week was National Sports Week. I didn’t… Continue Reading “The sportswear dilemma of National Sports Week”
One of the great things about children starting school is that you no longer have to answer every question they ask. I’m presuming the teachers get a lot of their questions too. But there’s also the mystery about what they learn at school. Because you can never get a complete school day run down from 5 year olds. N’s quite good at telling me what he’s been doing. Sometimes it’s sporadic, but I can prompt because the school send us… Continue Reading “Learning about health and exercise at school”
Now I’m back dancing again, I’m trying to get there 2 nights a week. That helps on the fitness side, but also gives me a bit of a social life outside of work – although I don’t see many of my old friends there there’s only so much chatting and socialising I actually do. Me dancing does seem to confuse N a little though, and it makes it hard to get the bedtime routine done on time and bedtime stories… Continue Reading “Children’s chatter – Who do you dance with?”
