My four year old twin girls are half way through their first term at full time school and of course this week is half term so I thought it would be a good time to give an update on R and M’s progress. When the girls started it all looked great. There was a new…
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My Children, Grandparents, Death and Honesty.
Read moreDo I get jealous when I see or hear of other parents telling me how the grandparents had their children for the night, or took them out for the day? Well, yes. A little part of me is jealous, but circumstances beyond my control have left my children with just a grandmother, my mum, who…
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Celebration or Crying
Read moreRecently I wrote a post about being a parent for 21 years and just when you think you have passed all the milestones in your children’s lives another one comes along, but they are no longer children’s milestones. They’re adult milestones and I have reached another milestone in my life as a parent. One which I’m…
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Children Are Wonderful But Relentless.
Read moreHaving children and becoming a parent is without question the most wonderful feeling in the world, but OMG! It’s relentless! There is just never a break and having five children ranging in age from 21 years down to four year old twins. Life is never your own, and over the last 48 hours recently it…
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Parenting Can Be So Tough!
Read moreAs most people who read my blog will know I’m a father of five children. It is without question the toughest job I have ever had, and I have certaintly had some tough jobs, but nothing compares to being sent on an emotional rollercoaster and being physically shattered from lack of sleep, however having to…
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Inside the mind of a Four Year Old
Read moreWouldn’t you just love to get inside the mind of a four year child? I would! I think it’s fascinating watching them watching you! They have an innocence that it is so far untouched that they don’t see bad things or bad people or any sort of evil in the world. I have often heard…
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Children: OMG! The Cost!
Read moreRegular readers will know I’m a dad of five children. Yeah I know what idiot has five children? ME! Seriously though it’s the best thing that could have happened to me. Why? Well, I wanted to be poor all my life and OMG, did it work! I thought when they were babies it was expensive,…
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Saturday Tea-Time A Parents Worry
Read moreI recently wrote a post called, ‘When do you stop worrying about your child? NEVER!‘ It could be the time one of my four year old twin girls was rushed to hospital with dehydration, high temperature and suspected meningitis, or perhaps that none of my children are being bullied in high school, or that they…
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Brilliant dad feature week 72
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Rob. He is a 32 year old software engineer from Gloucester and he builds websites. In his spare time is one of the narrators for Bedtime FM’s Story Time, a podcast dedicated to delivering short and unique children’s stories. It’s a fantastic podcast and really worth checking it out. He…
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Feeling obsolete as a Dad
Read moreThere are times (not all the time) when I feel surplus to requirements as a dad. This has become for me all the more obvious in the last six months or so. With my older children it’s a strange feeling, but one I can fully understand. I know they have grown up and are now…
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Are you a pushy or encouraging parent?
Read moreHere’s a dilemma. When is it considered you are an encouraging parent or you are a pushy parent? As a dad of five children my older three children have always been involved in sport and activities outside of school. All three played football to which I was very involved and the truth is I wanted…
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The magical place
Read moreI have come to believe that our home is a magical place, or at least that’s what I have been convinced of. Why do I think it is magic? First of all there are four year old twins living here. The girls have an innocence and naivety about the real world which is something to…
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When do you stop worrying about your children? Never!
Read moreJust recently my 20 year old daughter went to Ibiza with two friends. I know she is 20, but I can’t help it, I still worry. When your children are little you seem to worry all the time. When they are unwell, going to school for the first time, making sure that they are happy…
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Fatherhood fun or hard work
Read moreRegular readers will know that I have five children. It’s been an awesome journey watching five children grow up and without question it’s been loads of fun, but at times it’s incredibly hard. I do believe that some people are born to be parents. My wife is a perfect example of that (although she does…
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Teenage life now and then is it easier now?
Read moreIs childhood more dangerous now or is it exactly the same as when I was growing up? When I was growing up so much was swept under the carpet and if a man lived on his own down the street my mother would say stay away from that house, he is strange and not to…
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The thirst for knowledge that four year old twins have is exhausting
Read moreNow that my twin girls R and M have turned four years old their appetite to learn and increase their knowledge at times is exhausting. It’s that stage where the girls ask me and my wife millions of questions such as, what is that?, what does that mean? Dad, look at that! It’s incredible how…
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Christmas indulgence
Read moreAll of my five children have always been very fortunate to have been over indulged at Christmas. That of course is my fault I have spoiled them and this year I got to thinking what is Christmas really about. First of l am not in the slightest bit religious so I have difficulty in seeing…
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When I go to and come home from work
Read moreWhen I leave for work it will usually takes me about 10 minutes to get out of the house. This is because we have a ritual of hugs, kisses and telling each other that we love each other and that includes my wife and I too. I have always believed that it’s important to say…
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What makes you a good father
Read moreI believe that situations that happen in your life make you the person you are. My own father left when I was eight years old so consequently I grew up for most of my childhood without a father figure in my life. He left to be with another woman. I’m not judging that. That was…
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10 things your children can't believe you have experienced
Read moreAs a dad of five children ranging in age from three all the way up to 20, one of the most common things that my older children think is that I couldn’t possibly have gone through some of the things that they have,but of course I have! You get that old line, “You don’t understand…
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Challenging moments with your children part 2
Read moreToday’s post in my series of challenging moments in my children’s lives is about one of my three and half year old twins, M. When the twins were born they were six weeks early and M weighed just 2lb 11ozs so she was pretty tiny. While they were in hospital initially they were mostly tube…
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