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Separation anxiety

It’s weird, Roo has always been a confident sociable toddler. Since she was 6 months old she’s gone to childminders and then nursery and then a pre-school group and has been used to being around other adults, away from us and making new friends. However, since we took her away from nursery and I became her primary carer things have shifted and it seems she is suffering from some form of separation anxiety. I noticed it first of all just after we came back off holiday and I couldn’t leave the room without her asking for me. If I tried [...] Read more »

My first day as a stay at home mum

Well today was the start of a new journey for me. This was my first full day as an official stay at home mum. For some mums this may not seem like big or challenging news in the parenting stakes but for me it’s been a huge decision and one that I wasn’t sure I would actually be very good at. Having spent the last year of my life completely retraining to be a teaching assistant and passing my course things with the job just weren’t what they had promised to be and I made the decision to stop going [...] Read more »

Deferring your chosen preschool

After much stressing and fussing and arranging of childcare to fit around my new job as a teaching assistant, Daddy E and I decided last week to defer on the pre-school nursery place the local Catholic school that we had been offered for Roo. Why? Because this would have meant putting Roo into three different types of childcare to make sure she was able to attend the school for her 3 hours a day at the pre-school and it just seemed absolutely crazy that as a working parent I needed to rely on three different types of care providers. On [...] Read more »

Toddler Bullying

This morning in our house something strange happened and it really upset me to the point I sought solice in my fellow mummy bloggers and actually sat in the car on my way to the job centre and cried as I felt so uncontrollably upset for Roo. I was bullied as a teenager, absolutely horrendously bullied. I had rocks and stones thrown at me, people made fun of my name, every class I attended throughout my GCSE year people would sing the BlackAdder theme tune at me. Kids can be incredibly cruel. I moved schools so many times over bullies, [...] Read more »