My youngest son is now a glorious seventeen months old. It’s a good age, seventeen months: old enough to make your feelings known, young enough to elicit a hug simply by looking up, eyes brimming with unshed tears, old enough to bait your brothers, young enough to have a mother’s unquestioning protection from them.

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God, journalists piss me off sometimes. Yet another article about the self-absorbed nature of bloggers. Not only that, but the author has seen fit to pick on the self-absorbed nature of mommy bloggers.
For heaven’s sake! At least be fair and pick on all types of bloggers. Don’t we, as parents, get enough grief [...]

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To the readers that came to me from the feature in The Independent “Have you read the one about me?” and who keep coming back I would like to say thanks for reading, especially as it seems that not all people agree that blogs or blogging are interesting.
There has been a surge of interest in [...]

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