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The Last Year Before School
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The Last Year Before She Starts School

This week it has hit home that my eldest daughter will be starting Reception in exactly a year’s time. And I’m SO not ready! As her 4th birthday fast approaches, the months seem to be going too quickly. Time with…
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Posted by By Alice
My Fears About The Start Of School
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My Fears About The Start Of School

At the end of the summer, my son, my first child, starts school. I’ve started buying his uniform, and the sight of him in grey trousers and a white polo shirt brought back a flood of memories, and I started…
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Posted by By Laura Pearson
“They grow up so fast!”: I Should Have Listened
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“They grow up so fast!”: I Should Have Listened

These tiny dots are the first outward sign of this loss of infancy, of innocence. And suddenly I am gripped by a fear of losing her.
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Posted by By Karen Smith
You Can’t Keep Me, Mummy
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You Can’t Keep Me, Mummy

Experiencing something with him is like doing it for the first time again, seeing the world anew. And I want it to last forever.
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Posted by By Laura Pearson
You Believe in Father Christmas, But I Don’t Mummy!
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You Believe in Father Christmas, But I Don’t Mummy!

I wanted the magic to continue forever, for them to truly believe that Santa Claus was coming to town, rather than some Amazon delivery man.
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Posted by By Beezy Marsh
A Letter to My Threenager
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A Letter to My Threenager

Jill wonders whether an actual adolescent will be easier to negotiate with than a threenager as she muses on her future relationship with her little girl...
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Posted by By Jill Misson
Tweenager on her iPad
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30 Signs You’re Raising a Tweenager

If you think parenting your toddler, threenager or fournado is hard work, steel yourself because the tweenager years lie ahead... be afraid.
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Posted by By Sam Curtis
Wellie boots
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Another Baby is not the Answer

Marianne's 'nearly two-year-old' is no longer nearly two, and in that last week before the 2nd birthday she was a bit of a mess but does want another baby?
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Posted by By Marianne Marshall

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