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Essential Facts About Summer
Wasps, magpie shit on the barbecue, the kids trying to drown each other and The Orange People. Rachael Smart's essential facts about summer.
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Seen to be Kind
Public Displays of Kindness can be empowering because one simple act can start a revolution, but there’s something immoral about a man taking selfies to prove he paid for another bloke’s cuppa.
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Parties: A Few Pizzas and Acute Anxiety
I couldn't let Billy starve. It was his first visit to our house. Why hadn't his mum informed me he had deep-rooted eating conflicts?
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Slow Parenting: Sloe Gin and Paper Animals
Fifty tubs of Play-Doh later, one self-indulgent comic strip called Kid and Me, a beautifully illustrated map to Narnia and a table covered with toddler’s woolly ‘snor’, and I know all there is to know about my kids again.
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Christmas TV: Festive Ad(sub)verts
Here’s Motherload blogger Rachael Smart's take on three annoying Christmas TV adverts that had her reaching for the off button.
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12 Christmas Let-downs
Forget the 12 Days of Christmas; here are 12 Christmas letdowns, including why Santa looks like he’s doing community service to balance out a former burglary.
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The Nativity: Jesus Christ Kid Superstar
It’s a sheer fluke that the chronically shy girl always gets the role as rodent or mute villager in the same way that the little bastard who throttles kids on the playground gets crowned as King Herod.
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Solo Parenting: The Mothership
If my kids sleep in sheets without snot, eat two broccoli trees and we’ve laughed really hard together, I’m doing V signs at Jo Frost.