My kids are getting more and more cheeky. I don’t know whether this is down to an improvement in the weather and, therefore, their moods, but they’re getting bolder. So much so, that they have started using my own words against me. As with many such examples of insubordination, this all started with youngest. Although she’s …
I returned to the scene I associate with my first big parenting faux pas recently. Fortunately, there was no repeat of what happened but the place still makes me wince. Since then, I’ve notched up plenty of parenting fails. Starting with that first one – and in no particular order as they’re all bad – …
Ah, good old Pancake Day. It’s the only day of the year you can legitimately call people tossers and claim that it was meant entirely innocently. Speaking of Shrove Tuesday-related rudeness, I’m reminded of something that happened on this very day three years ago that I neglected to write about at the the time. A …