Oldest starts at secondary school next week. I can’t believe we’re at this stage already but there you go. Time flies. Over the summer break, we’ve been helping him prepare by getting everything he needs and it has been quite the learning experience for me as well as him. Here, then, are five things I …
Somehow or other, oldest is starting secondary school in just six months. He has a place at our first choice and we’re impressed by what we’ve heard about it so far. But I’m so not ready for him to move up from primary school! As soon as he got his place, my own experiences of …
With the latest round of remote learning over and children back in schools, I’m sure many parents are breathing a sigh of relief. For our part, we’ll miss having our three around but won’t miss the stress of virtual lessons. I like to look at everything as a learning experience though, so it’s time to …
Disclosure: This is a paid collaboration with Night Zookeeper. We’re a couple of weeks into the new lockdown restrictions so are getting used to home learning again. I’ve been really impressed by how much the school is doing to keep everything going. As well as providing regular live lessons and offline tasks, teachers have encouraged us …
I know I speak for us all when I say we’re all glad to see the back of 2020. It has been a truly awful year for everyone, so I’m not going to dwell on that. Even so, I think it’s always important to look back at the end of each year before looking forward …
Youngest has been at primary school for just over a month and has settled in really well. It seems like an age ago that we last had a child in reception – four years ago, for the record. This is making me feel old, which isn’t surprising as I’m at least a decade older than …
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about five unlikely jobs I could do as a result of parenting. It was one of my sillier contributions to the internet but people seemed to like it. Now we find ourselves in coronavirus-induced lockdown, we could all do with a laugh so here are a …
One of the things I’m still getting used to in my now not-so-new job is the walk from the station to the office I work in. Not because of the increased exercise, you understand, but due to the eternally thorny issue of self-important people with appalling pavement etiquette. I can’t stand bad manners or people …
I haven’t had a good rant on here for a while, so let’s talk about the fundamentally stupid entities that are school attendance awards. Oldest came back today with a shiny new school-branded notebook. His younger brother didn’t. They’re both good boys who work hard and earn lots of praise from their brilliant teachers. So, …
Well, I never thought I’d see the day. This is my 1,000th blog post. I won’t get a letter from the queen or anything like that, but it’s a proud achievement nonetheless. As my good friend John from Dad Blog UK put it the other day, I’m a veteran blogger now. This is a much …