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Quality time
A lot of parents, mums especially, seem to be fed this line that there was once some golden age when mums would have been constantly doting on their children - not going out to work and 'farming them out' to other people. Yes, a golden age of bonding when they were sung lullabies all day while little fluffy animals hung out the laundry ( Read more... ) -
Courtesy of alphamummy blog
1. What are your current obsessions ( Read more... ) -
Appaling journalism... please permit me a rant...
On urban75 today, i had my attention drawn to an article from the Sunday Express ( Read more... ) -
A concerned mother writes... :p
I think this Blog may become my ‘area of random musings about bringing up kids’, even though most of the things on my mind are quite a few years away ( Read more... ) -
Dream home on offer for Goths
Spotted this was for sale as I was going past roday - Gothic gatehouse to St Pancras Cemetery, Finchley
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Scary monsters
OK, so everyone says we’re stressing kids out through the media and scary news stories and too much testing in school and consumerism and so on.
Which is quite possibly true.
But it occurs to me, looking at all this stuff they’re expected to do in schools about emotional development and global citizenship and sustainability, might we also be ( Read more... ) -
Evilbook
I am now over on Evilbook as me - gave in, as too many people were starting to plan social stuff on it, totally neglecting that some of us weren't on it.
Please feel free to be my evil friend.
Mwhahahaha!
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Hated by the Daily Mail
I am now that most evil of creatures, The Working Mother ( Read more... )