Category: School
Top tip; preventing burglaries
Operation Tantrum. Thousands of genetically engineered toddlers were dropped over enemy lines, too cute to kill, but with absolutely zero empathy or conscience about their actions – the perfect combatants.
Read MoreEmpowerment Parenting
I’ve been thinking a lot about differing parenting styles, apparent in children in the playground and at parties. Sometimes it feels like we’re inundated with the selfy-helpy world of how-to-bring-up-your-kids. Having spent...
Read MoreStranger Danger
The kids got “Stranger Danger” education at school this week. Making sure no one gets into a car with a stranger, or worse still, accepts any sweets. We discuss this type of thing quite frequently at home. This is in part,...
Read More“If we took a holiday, just one day out of time, it would be, it would be so fine.” (It’s just the other 69 days of school holidays that are the problem)
I live in a rural community, a small village with no street lights. It’s surrounded by fields which are sowed and ploughed each year, by one of the three farmers who own all the land as far as the eye can see. We watch the...
Read MorePhone call from school
The school rang me at 3.30pm today. School finishes at 3.15pm and it’s generally not a great thing for me to get an out of hours call. Basically it means they’ve missed the school bus, or worse. One time last year...
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