12th May, 2012 - Posted by admin - 4 Comments
This is the cover of Time magazine. I have three issues with it: 1.The article, it seems, is not about the model, or breastfeeding, or natural term breastfeeding. It is about William Sears, who coined the idea of “attachment parenting” (well he made the label mainstream, anyway) but apparently isn’t eye catching enough to put » Read More
12th March, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Just a quick post with tips for getting those more choosy toddlers to eat… Snack trays – A different snack in each muffin case makes for an interesting monkey snack tray. (there are nuts on this tray, but please follow nhs guidelines for giving nuts to children). Get the kids involved – I was thrilled » Read More
25th February, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Extracting yourself from your child’s bed should be an olympic sport – requiring as it does, a range of skills from balance, dexterity, stealth, and speed to intuition and instinct. You rely on your wit and experience to know when to leave the bed – the child must be deeply enough asleep but not sleeping » Read More
12th February, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Following my article on sugar, here is a quick blog to give you all some links to recipes that have been a hit in our house – healthy stuff, some with sugar and some without, but all yummy and full of goodness: sugar free banana bread Deep dish cookie pie made with chickpeas! (a low » Read More
30th December, 2011 - Posted by admin - No Comments
So, I have decided to try making a “busy box” for X every evening before we go to bed for him to play with the next morning. This is our first attempt – a box from the Ikea shelves we have, which we will use each time. I filled it with lentils (puy, yellow and » Read More
11th November, 2011 - Posted by admin - No Comments
How long do you let your toddler nap during the day? I am sitting next to X who has been napping for 2 hours now, and wondering if we will regret this long daytime nap tonight. At nursery, 2 days a week, he naps for an hour or less. Sometimes at home he totally skips » Read More
9th August, 2011 - Posted by admin - No Comments
The bedtime book for exhausted parents, “Go the F**k to Sleep” by Adam Mansbach, was a hit before it was even published, thanks to (apparently unintentional) viral marketing, including a reading on YouTube by Samuel L Jackson. Using expletives many parents wouldn’t dream of admitting to uttering near the ears of their dream-less little ones, » Read More
15th March, 2011 - Posted by admin - 2 Comments
How do you cope when your child is aggressive towards other children? X has started pushing his very best friend. What are my options as a parent? Taking him away from his friends? Time out? The idea is that he learns that the behaviour he just displayed led him to lose something (attention, play) – » Read More
17th January, 2011 - Posted by admin - 1 Comment
This article appeared in the Guardian yesterday, and has sparked a resurgence of an old anger that I try to keep buried. I have said before that that the purpose of this website is not to tell people what to do, or to give advice, but to give them the information they need to make » Read More
16th January, 2011 - Posted by admin - 2 Comments
There has been a huge amount of controversy over the last to days following an article article published in the British Medical Journal entitled : Six Months Of Exclusive Breastfeeding : How Good is the Evidence? This was covered in the media with amazing inaccuracies and attention seeking, misinformed headlines such as : Breast Is » Read More