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Parenting The Truth About...July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

Why Is Water Wet? (And other equally confusing questions).

Kids, eh? Teaching us things about ourselves every day. My latest lesson? Well, turns out I’m as thick as two short planks. At four and a half Rian has moved firmly past the general, easy questions that young kids ask centering around ‘Why?’ and we have upgraded a level to the never ending loop of…

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General Life Parenting The Truth About...May 16, 2019May 16, 2019

Questions from a 4 Year Old

‘Hey Mam? Remember when yesterday – yesterday – yesterday and yesterday we had no crèche?’ That’s how Rian counts days in the past and days in the future. Yesterday-yesterday-yesterday is his way of referring to last Sunday for example, if today is Thursday. And if today is Thursday, tomorrow-tomorrow-tomorrow is how he refers to next…

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Parenting The Truth About...April 18, 2019May 19, 2019

Double, Double, Toilet Trouble

Welcome. And also, congratulations. You’ve reached a point in your life where you’ve felt compelled to click on something with Toilet in the title. What brings you here? Not here specifically, although I’m glad to have you and all, but I mean, what state of affairs is your life in that you want to read…

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General Life ParentingFebruary 24, 2019February 24, 2019

Let’s Parent Like It’s 1993

If you lived with a four year old obsessed with George Ezra’s Shotgun song, who pestered you non stop all day asking “Mam can we listen to ‘underneath the hocksun‘ now?”, what would you do? Well, if you were me you’d start off by saying every time, “it’s not ‘hocksun’ Rian it’s HOT SUN, and…

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