Just a few days ago,I had a rare moment in my life. It was Tuesday August 2nd and what made this day so special was not meant to be, but turned out that way and in a purely selfish way it was pure magic mainly because it has never happened before and is very unlikely…
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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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My sibling relationships
Read moreI was recently mentioned by John who blogs at Dad Blog UK as a dad blogger to follow, which I have to say I felt very humbled by. In it John mentioned two posts of mine, do I see my father before he dies?, and my childhood, marriages and children looking back. All of this…
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Another Baby? No! Well, maybe!
Read moreThe other day I published a post called nursery is over lets have another baby. All this has got me to thinking. Do I want another baby really? Well, maybe! I have pro-recreated five times. That’s a lot in today’s world. In fact it’s double the average of 2.4 children per family so I have…
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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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Selective hearing and children
Read moreI have come to the conclusion that children have an amazing ability for selective hearing. After having five children I have found that those moments of selective hearing usually relate to whats in it for them or is it something nice. 1. I would ask my children if they’d like a banana, pear or some…
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Danger and having no fear with children
Read moreFear and danger in small children are in my opinion so very closely linked. Our twin girls are four years old and over the last six months I have noticed that they are beginning to take risks albeit only small risks. Of course they have to start taking risks otherwise they will never learn anything…
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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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Parenthood
Read moreWhen I became a parent for the first time it was awesome, but then the reality of being responsible in every possible way for this defenceless little human being just blew my mind away. The truth of the matter is that no matter how old you are this moment in your life will ultimately define…
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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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Brilliant dad feature week 60
Read moreThis week our brilliant dad feature is Lawrence from the UK who blogs at Tired Daddy. His blog is a day by day account of the first year of parenthood, written by a new dad who has a lot of opinions about a lot of things, but not much of a clue what he is actually doing most…
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Parents evening Part 1
Read moreParents evening for our four year old twins is fast approaching and it’s definitely a surreal experience. It doesn’t seem like yesterday they were babies and now they’re in nursery. This is the thing though, parents evening for nursery. I remember my older childrens first parents evening, but that was the first year of primary…
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Let's just be parents
Read moreFor some time now I have been reading lots of posts about stay at home dads or stay at home mums and gender stereotyping. If I’m honest I have a written a bit about this myself. I was thinking about how as a society we tend to label ourselves, but sometimes the labels we give…
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Dads and Playgroups.
Read moreIn the month of December I attended a playgroup with our twin girls and my wife on a few Wednesday afternoons. To say the experience was interesting was an understatement. I had been to playgroups before with the twins and my wife about a year ago and always felt I was being stared at because…
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A parents role
Read moreThe minute you become a mummy or daddy it comes with the responsibility to shape your child’s life. Here are my 10 tips that I believe you can use to help your child to have a good life and to enable them to become a nice human being. 1. From the moment your child is…
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The competitive nature of parents
Read moreHaving children is the most wonderful and rewarding experience you could ever wish for, but why is it that some parents feel the need to compete with other parents on just about everything? Here are a few things I have heard after having five children. I’ve learned to take no notice of them, but I…
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Parents Love
Read moreThis is a question I have asked myself many times. I grew up in a very dysfunctional family and by the time I was eight years old my father had left the family home so I was brought up from a early age by my mum. This without question formed a solid relationship with my…
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Learning behaviour from parents
Read moreIt’s quite fascinating to see how R&M’s prefence changes from mummy to daddy on a regular basis during one hour, let alone a day or a week. The girls are now just over three years old and from very early on R was always more for mummy and M for daddy. There’s no reason why, but…
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The girls are moved to a nursery ward
Read moreFollowing on from my last post our girls had been moved to a nursery ward. This meant nursery nurses would take over looking after them now. I have to be honest the nursey nurse, all of which were women were an interesting set of nurses. I felt as though they treated us parents as we were…
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