My baby is no longer a baby.
There. I said it.
4yo has 2 days left of nursery, then onward to Big School. He is ready in body, mind and soul.
He has been visiting Reception to get used to the classroom and teachers. I must say this has been brilliant. 4yo thinks he is the expert now. He tells me about all the toys they have, the water and sand area, the reading corner, the maths area, the creating table (this bit is particularly important). Today he even did PE with them. Needless to say – he loved it!
In short, he can’t wait.
The summer holidays are going to be really short for me, probably for the only time. He can’t wait, but I can!
4yo doesn’t realise that he’s not going to leave school until he is 18! I’ll wait for that penny to drop!
As David Cameron hits the headlines again – this time venting his spleen at runaway dads, I thought I would write a post extolling the virtues of great Dads.
Don’t get me wrong – runaway dads SHOULD get bad press – they deserve it. But not all absent Dads are absent because they want to be. We know this. The issue is not clear cut. Relationships are so much more complicated than that. Furthermore, bad parenting by present fathers (and mothers) is just as bad as not being there at all.
Anyway, rant over, back to the wonderful things Dads do.
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Anyone who read My Child is Scared of Dogs will know just how much my 4yo was terrified by our canine friends. You can not imagine my joy then when he STROKED a dog in nursery when the Dogs Trust came in with Sebastian. Read more »
Maybe this post is going to alienate a few people. But I am not sorry, I am just angry.
My question is: Why do some dog owners not put people, especially children, before their dogs?
My son is 4, he is terrified of dogs. It doesn’t matter whether they are small, big, tall, short, thin, fat, bald, furry or talking – hang on there – talking dogs are OK (apparently Scooby Doo is not scary!)
I am not talking about normal terrified, I am talking REALLY TERRIFIED. Read more »
A friend posted this on Facebook:
You just know when your toddler is up to something!
“How do you expect kids to listen to their parents when, Tarzan lives half naked, Cinderella comes back home at midnight, Pinocchio lies all the time, Aladdin is the king of thieves, Batman drives at 320KM/h, Sleeping Beauty is lazy and Snow White lives with 7 guys.
We shouldn’t be surprised if kids misbehave at times!”
Then I saw this article from the BBC about it being parents responsibility for the behaviour of their children. It got me thinking…
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