It’s been a dreadful week, culminating in all four of us crying at some point on the school run this morning, Harry because he didn’t want to go to school, Ben because I insisted on holding his hand on the road to stop him from throwing himself in front of a car, William because he [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Too Many Children'
How do you deal with such bad behavior in a five year old?
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Homeschooling and School, Too Many Children
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Morning rush hour
October 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Daily Life, Too Many Children
I pause at the garage door, boots on, coat and hat pulled tight, and look up at the ominous sky. It’s still dark and more than a little bit foreboding even though I know our walk like the back of my hand and even though I know sunrise will be here within a few minutes. [...]
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More ice for my balls
August 31st, 2006 · No Comments · Parenting, Too Many Children
Over the summer I have been taking both my eldest boys to speech therapy. I was dreading loading all three into a hot, sweaty car on a hot, sweaty day when all of them would probably rather be in bed, comatose with exhaustion from occupying each other for a whole morning. And also [...]
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Surviving the summer
July 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Parenting, Too Many Children
There is one week until the summer break and I’m dreading it, incrementally, by the hour. I’m relying on getting together with friends to share the sheer and utter joy that will be Having Our Children At Home All Day. These friends will be chosen carefully for their child-load: parents with at least [...]
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Ten minutes
June 14th, 2006 · No Comments · Post-Partum Depression, Too Many Children
So I’ve decided to stop wallowing in self-pity and to get on with Life. I chose this path, right? So I should just suck it up and get on with it. And the baby? Oh, well I’m going to pop him in the cot in the corner and leave him to [...]
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Mind matters
May 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Too Many Children
The daily battles start early: Eldest Son, who is four, puts up the best fight he can muster to avoid pre-school each morning. When he gets home he is tired and badly behaved. His teacher told me today that he is acting immaturely at school and is not really ready to start big school in [...]
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I don’t really believe in signs but I have to believe this one for my own sanity
April 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Too Many Children
So having not quite got around to firing the nanny (I had only actually fired her in my mind)I phoned her yesterday and explained that I wouldn’t need her after today as our arrangements had changed but that I would be very happy if she would like to work one more afternoon to help me [...]
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I just want Mary Poppins
April 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Too Many Children
I fired the nanny. She kept saying she couldn’t come, often with only a couple of hours notice. Today she called at 11.30 saying she couldn’t come (at 2.30). But, she said, she could come tomorrow instead. No, I said, that’s no good because I ask you to come on Tuesdays [...]
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The chocolate manufacturers should be at my house today
April 17th, 2006 · Comments Off · Too Many Children
The day after Easter and today I face the delights of the chocolate poo (the toddlers’ not mine). You know, that sticky, in-one-end-straight-out-the-other poop that is the after-effect of toddlers eating too much chocolate. It’s going to be so much fun.
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Getting on with it
January 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Too Many Children
My two week babymoon is over. Matthew is back at work, I have accomplished getting two toddlers and an infant up, dressed, fed, nappied, nappied again and then nappied again (the infant is getting through about twenty diapers a day at the moment), got everyone in the car for the school run, come home, [...]
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