Just as my youngest daughter is leaving pre-school, I have realised something, something I should have noticed years ago. Namely, flexible childcare is very hard to arrange within the UK.
“We did a search for ‘weird images’. It was great. There was a man whose body was a pancake.” This was a conversation I overheard between a young child and her parents the other day.
To quote the famous Clash song: should I stay or should I go? Just what is birthday party etiquette when it comes to mum and dad? Should they dump the child and run or stay for the duration?
Every now and again, a reader of this blog comes up with a superb idea for something I could write about. I was chatting to a dad recently who did just that. Would I, he said, consider writing a dad’s guide to the school run?
I’m facing a dilemma, a play date dilemma. It involves a friend of Helen, my daughter, someone she knows from a weekend activity club she sometimes attends.
