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By now, you’re a professional parent. You know how to swing into a supermarket on your way home to pick up a few groceries with the children in tow (put them in the trolley – the children as well as the groceries); you can fashion a Halloween costume out of your robe, a stick...

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The joy of parenthood can only be matched by the euphoria of escaping it. It’s that heart-warming feeling of seeing your child’s happiness when they get to school and see their friends, while quickly closing the car door behind them and grinning without a backwards glance as...

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Now that the kids are home for the holidays under continued social distancing conditions, how do we differentiate one day from the next? How do we stop one activity from sliding into another and it all becoming a giant morass of sameness? And what time is wine o’clock during...

Well haven’t our holiday plans been well and truly scuppered?! Instead of long haul flights for Easter and Summer, it’s long-distance calls to airlines and accommodation to see if we can get refunds or reschedule bookings. If living under lockdown will save lives though, it’s...

I’ve been a teacher for a long time. I am happily married for 24 years, raised three children of my own and I’m proud to say I’ve created Swallows and Amazons Kindergarten. So, you might think I should be pretty au fait with most things to do with children by now. But the...

After a number of years together, it can be a bit shocking to discover that your partner has all these habits you never knew about. Of course you’ve had holidays with your spouse, lots of weekends together too. They’ve seen you at your best and worst. This is well trod ground....

The last few months have certainly been unique on the scale of human experience – definitely not your average start to the year. Or decade for that matter. Without realising we’re doing much at all, we’ve actually come a long way in a short space of time though. While...