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Let’s just pause and take a breath and look at what has happened in the last few days:
Wife has returned to work two days a week. This has probably been the hardest thing that she has done since childbirth itself. It will be a real effort for all of us to survive these next few [...]
Well, aren’t we just a couple of very bad parents, possibly the worst parents in the world - well with the exception of all those parents that physically scar their children (we only tend to scar them emotionally).
Today we topped even ourselves. It was end of year party time at Little Miss’ daycare centre. If [...]
I am a superhero dad - at least that’s is what Little Miss told everyone at daycare the other day. She was telling them all about how strong and brave I am - so much so that the carers actually had to check with Wife to make sure the stories were true. But I guess [...]
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I haven’t posted in ages - sorry for that, it shan’t happen again.
I promise to post more frequently again from now on. The reason for the lack of paosts is that with Nanny staying with us there has been less, not more, spare time. This is because even after the kids are in bed I [...]
It is official, we are off to the Big Room (not to be confused with the big house) at daycare. Little Miss has finally graduated from the little kids room to the big kids room because there is a vacancy.
It was a close run thing as the daycare people were reticent to allow her [...]
It was a close run thing as the daycare people were reticent to allow her to progress because of her unwillingness to utter a sound in the presence of anyone other than immediate family and a couple of her little friends and their mothers. There are people who are convinced that she is mute and they are always startled whenever she utters a sound. And to be completely honest they almost drop over dead when she comes out with something that is beyond her years (or drops the F bomb), and they utter a disbelieving ‘I had no idea she had such a large vocabulary!’ (Proud Daddy Alert).
So we have decided that in an attempt to address her non speaking ways we have gone the way all good parents do - we have offered her a bribe. We have spent the last couple of days reminding her that she can talk to the people at daycare like she does myself and Wife, and talking about how interesting and fun it is to talk to people and find out new things.
To top it off we have promised her the one thing every little girl desires the most in the world, that’s right ladies and gentleman, we have promised Little Miss her very own weapon!
She has decided that she wants a sword like some of the little boys and we have told her we will get her one if she talks at daycare (in deference to her baby sister Usurper who is likely to be on the receiving end of the odd thrust and parry we will make sure it is a nerf sword).
Personally I think it is a double edged sword encouraging her to speak to people when we are out etc. because she is hard enough to get to shut up around the house as it is ……….
