**TODO has a couple of verrucas he's not happy about, so as well as gaffer tape (aka duct tape occlusional therapy which is legit with clinical trial evidence and everything), I've employed a wheeze of my uncle-the-pediatrician's: buying them. This was apparently one of his front-line therapies in his clinics and highly successful. It certainly ( Read more... )

I think I've posted here before about how I explained the need to clear out old toys before the Christmas influx to my kids, when they were very young, by using the analogy of apps on a full smartphone or tablet: you have to delete some things to make space so you can get the new ones. It tickled me that a digital storage capacity problem was one ( Read more... )

My kids are getting old enough now that it's easy enough to make the mistake of assuming they're adults who happen to be pretty short, and very naive about a lot of things - but patchily, since there's plenty stuff they know more about than I do (and they often like to talk about that stuff). Most things you can explain to them, provided (a) you ( Read more... )

Non-parent: Um. What's that stain?
Parent: Oh, that. It's just blood.
Non-parent: Blood?!
Parent: It's Ok, it's almost certainly children's blood. Couldn't tell you which one though. [self-deprecatory chuckle]
Non-parent: o_O

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M: Do you want to tidy your room?
**TODO: No. I want it to become a junk heap.

Achievable goals.

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I went to see the new Star Wars film this morning, mainly to pre-screen it for suitability for my kids. No really. Ok, I was also slightly excited to see it myself ( Read more... )

I have recently learned that (a) leather jackets are definitely in at the moment, and (b) most "leather" jackets in the shops are not made of bits of dead cow treated with heinous chemicals but from a polymer, often polyurethane (?!). I've slightly coveted a leather jacket since I was a teenager. At the time I got a parka instead because I was a ( Read more... )

Self Review Sheet
Name: **TODO Daffodil
Date: October 2015

I enjoy ...
ICT because it is very fun.
I aslo enjoy gldn tine.

I am good at ...
math becuase I prastis
Im good at fonics.

I need help with ...
spelings and swiming becuase i dont practis.

("Im good at fonics." is such a gem.)

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One of **FIXME's spellings this week is 'enemies', and I spotted that he had written 'I do not have any' above it. For a moment I thought that was sweet, until I realised that the sentence might be completed 'because they have all been eliminated'.

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I walked the kids to school today. (And I don't take the ability to do that for granted any more**FIXME has started at Middle School this term. We drop **FIXME off first, since his school starts earlier, then **TODO and I go on to his Lower School ( Read more... )