Christmas brings out the child in me. It really is the best time of year, especially if you have small children. Watching them slowly build in excitement actually makes me laugh with joy that they can believe so much in Father Christmas. Writing their Christmas lists, posting them and then telling anybody that will listen…
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Is School Changing My Twins.
Read moreMy four year old twins have now been back in school two weeks. Since their half term break it has been a fascinating few weeks because there is a change happening that I didn’t expect. The girls confidence is growing at an alarming rate. No longer do they stay holding hands with mummy and daddy…
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Reflecting On My Father’s Passing a Year On
Read moreAll my life I have had an emotional curtain around me to protect me from hurt and emotions. The last year has enlightened me as to why I was hurt by my biological fathers general behaviour to me as if I didn’t exist. That I was invisible. It’s approximately a year since my father passed…
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Is the Desire to Win, Born or Taught?
Read moreI have often wondered if we teach our children the desire and will to win at sports or academic achievements. Or it is something that we are born to do? Is it part of our character and DNA? Looking back at my own childhood I was never encouraged, let alone taught to be first in…
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Job Hunting In the UK: Tips & Advice For Parents
Read moreThere are many difficulties that individuals have to face while trying to find a job in 2016. As a parent, those difficulties are even further enhanced, especially if you have taken a career break. However, don’t despair, as that perfect job is out there with your name on it. Below we share some tips and…
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I Have Been a Lazy Daddy
Read moreWe live in the ever increasing technological super highway world, and I have been a bad daddy to my four year old twins, R and M. Over the last four weeks I have had a health scare. In fact I have been to the doctors this year more times than I have in my entire…
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My Four Year Old Twins have an Amazing Social Life!
Read moreMy four year twin girls went back to school on Monday after a week’s holiday for half term, and amazingly they couldn’t get their quick enough! Mondays and Tuesdays is my time with the girls, as mummy is in work, so I take them to school and pick them up. I arrived at 3.20pm and…
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Bonfire Night
Read moreI have to admit I have always been anti-fireworks and have always avoided going to firework displays. The reason is simple, as a child I saw a couple of friends get injured by fireworks. In fact one of them had life changing injuries so consequently I have always felt fireworks are simply dangerous and not…
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Do You Have To Be Identical To Be A Twin?
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I’m a dad of four year old twins, but what they may not know is that I’m also married to a twin. There is a difference with twins, one which at times I find infuriating. My twin daughters are not identical, yet my wife and her sister…
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School Update at Half Term
Read moreMy 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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Why Do We Bare Our Souls.
Read moreWriting a blog is something that fascinates me. Why? You may ask. Well lots of people like to write about their hobbies or interests or their children, and that’s just brilliant that they want to share their passions with us all. There is another side of blogging that really fascinates me though. It’s how many…
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When do our Children Stop Seeing us as Their Superheroes?
Read moreBeing a parent you have to be absolutely everything to your child. The more children you have the bigger the juggling act becomes and the harder it is to keep all the balls in the air at the same time. As you can see my superhero name is Captain Bubblehead. The minute I see dirty…
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Talking openly with your children
Read moreI have been a parent a long time now and one of the most important lessons I have learnt is to have an open relationship with them all. To never to be frightened or worried about talking about any subject with them. What I have also learnt is that broaching certain topics which can often…
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Apparently Dads Don’t Babysit!
Read moreThe last six months or so I have seen an increasing amount of comments about dads saying we don’t babysit our children. In all honesty, of course we don’t babysit our own children. You can’t, it’s simply not possible! The issue for me is why is it so necessary to be bombarded with marketing all…
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My Mum Made Me Sad the Other Day
Read moreGrowing up my relationship with my mum was fractured and at times totally dysfunctional all though my teens right into my thirties. Time of course has helped some very unpleasant memories fade but they will never completly go away,but as you grow older you definitely mellow and you think what’s the point which is where…
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Bitching between Bloggers
Read moreBlogging is a business for a lot people, as well as a community for others. That’s the reality that some of us just don’t realise. Recently I have read many posts about bloggers complaining about hateful and very hurtful comments said to other bloggers, and sometimes I read them and think yes, of course that’s…
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My Daughter E Returns to University for her 2nd Year
Read moreLast Saturday I was up at 6am to take my daughter back to university to study for her second year. It was a very interesting start because I wasn’t entirely sure where she was staying, but she did text me an address of a friend where she said would most likely be staying overnight after…
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Do children need boundaries/rules?
Read moreOf course they do! It’s ridiculous to think or believe that they shouldn’t. One of my gripes is parents who say that they want their children to grow up free spirited. It’s madness! Even with a free spirt there has to be boundaries so that hopefully they will grow up to be well adjusted, polite,…
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When My Son Gives me a Blank Look.
Read moreWhen I’m talking about past things whether it be music, football etc I find it amusing that what I’m saying is falling on deaf ears and he will give me his blank face look as if to say dad what are you on about. At that moment I realise there is a generation between us…
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Laughing with our Twin Girls.
Read moreOur twin girls have been giving me a lot of laughs this week and quite often I’m sure they don’t realise it. On Tuesday we were out for lunch to celebrate my 19 year old daughter, E’s birthday. M always has to have a wee whenever we go out. It’s almost as if she is…
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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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