It appears that with the approach of Easter comes the time when schools are teaching children about the Easter Story. I’ve heard a few parents saying that their children have been asking a lot about God and Easter, and that…
Children grow so quickly, but when you see them every day, it’s hard to see it until they grow out of their clothes. Or are stood next to someone else’s child and you realise they’ve shot past them in height….
While I usually sigh when N asks yet another random question, I do love that he’s interested in the world around him and wants to learn more. I just don’t always know all the answers. This time it was all…
Bizarrely, as a girl going into 6th form, I did exactly that and went to a boys school. Well, at the time it was a boys school but took girls in the 6th form. After I left, they then started…
This week there’s been a new report out and lots of media discussion around children and obesity, with the report recommending children’s BMI checks annually. This all ties in with discussions on sugar tax recommendations – in particular on sugary…
N’s now turned 5 – yes, that final week of him being 4 rushed past like anything. So I remembered to sit down and do my birthday interview with him…now he’s a year older. We’ve been doing these since he…
Post Christmas, and for us a birthday, means that lots of children were given electronic gadgets. With children under five now being bought tablets and shops offering children’s versions of every electronic gadget possible, it’s often hard to know which to buy….
I do have some interesting conversations with N. Many of them seem to be about human bodies so I do sometimes wonder how his questions come about. A favourite recently has been about blood, and why we have it in…
Are people really that rude that they think it’s fine to not reply to children’s birthday party invitations? Or that they don’t respond but then turn up anyway….possibly with extra siblings in tow who weren’t invited? We’re in the planning…
I didn’t think I’d be explaining different relationships and how 2 adults of the same sex can have babies when N was only 4 years old. Given at that age a lot of children don’t know exactly how babies are…
Gifts for teachers. Do you do them or not? The last day of term before Christmas I spotted children going into school with gifts, and with horror realised that it hadn’t even occurred to me to sort a gift out. …
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