You will always be your child's favorite toy. Vicki Lansky
Now that is a strange title for any post!
It starts off a bit like a horror movie, but it’s not really that complicated.
Let me start at the beginning…
A friend is pregnant, which is wonderful. However, she has a degenerative illness, which didn’t worry her TOO MUCH, until she got pregnant. Though she won’t pass her illness directly onto her baby, there is a risk. Read more »
Your newborn has spent the last 9 months inside you, in the dark, in water, with strange echoey noises all around them. Then after a stressful time getting born, they find themselves in a whole new world.
The world as they knew it has changed forever.
If you think you and your partner are bewildered when you bring your newborn home for the 1st time – spare a thought for what the baby is going through. It takes time for you to adjust, and so it will for your baby too. OK you both may take to your new worlds like ducks to water, but it may just take a little time. Read more »
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!
It’s not often I see something from the Government and I think – now that’s a great idea….
But…. the Healthy Start scheme really does deserve a heads up. I had not heard of it, and I wonder how many women that qualify are not told about it.
They say you can never start reading to your child too early. I have to agree with this. As soon as our baby was born, we gathered all the old Ladybird books from charity shops. All the traditional fairy tales I remember from when I was young.
It was great for me, reading stories I had half forgotten, half remembered. I think some had changed though, become more PC. I remember in the Gingerbread Man, the fox was much more violent and hungry! Maybe that was the way I remember it. Read more »
