They certainly don’t mention this stuff in the baby manual. I have a vague memory of having my hair cut really short, like a boy, when I was about 4… or maybe I was 7… I hated it and I got mocked in school about it. I resented my Mom for having cut my hair so short for ages. Of…
Month: February 2015
Variety is the spice of life!
This is one of the first phrases my husband told me soon after we met. We were completely different people back then – he, a care-free spirit, a dreamer, a visionary. I, an analytical computer geek who wanted the world to fit in a symmetrical box. Much has changed since then and much as stayed the same. Miss Z was…
Pick up, put down
This is possibly one of the hardest techniques I used with the kids. Hardest on me, because I have a bad back. It’s Tracey Hogg’s technique and it’s used to curb baby manipulation at sleep times. You can use it from about 4 months old onwards. For those times when baby cries in bed, the technique is such that you…
I will not eat!
This is one of those sentences that comes up often, especially when you have more than one child. I can’t say how many times I’ve heard it, but it’s been a lot. No kid is perfect and they will always test the boundaries. This is why having a clear set of rules that you, your partner and your carers agree…
Can we really have it all?
My parents both worked. I don’t think of them as having been career driven, it was just the reality I grew up in. All my friends’ parents worked too. I grew up in Portugal at a time where the country had just risen from a political revolution (the Carnation revolution), was a mainly agricultural country, not much infrastructure existed –…
The day we go from invincible to helpless
My sister has two kids. They’re teenagers now. When they were little, and I was a care-free soul with no children, I remember a day when we were all at the beach. A hot sunny day. I asked my sister to go swim with me and off we went. The sea had some waves, but was suitably calm for us…
Disappointment is part of life
Before the Christmas break, we got a letter from Miss Z’s teacher about an upcoming school trip to St. Paul’s Cathedral. It was going to happen at the end of January. I told Miss Z that as I worked really close to St. Paul’s I would go meet her there to give her a kiss and a hug. For more…