Regular readers will know that my oldest daughter has just started school. This was a significant milestone, not just for her but the rest of the family. Like families the world over, we’re now hide-bound by school hours, school holidays and homework. The situation with our youngest daughter is easier as she’s at nursery part-time.
So that’s it, my baby’s started school. Although of course she isn’t a baby, she’s a little girl. It’s just that I can’t get over how quickly we’ve reached this milestone in her life. It seems like only yesterday I was cutting her umbilical cord. She’s been going almost a week now and I think
The past few weeks have been emotional. My first born is about to start school and it’s definitely turning out to be a bigger deal for my wife and I than it is for our daughter. As if to remind us just how rapidly children grow up, our youngest has started crawling and is already
Like many children across the UK, my daughter will be starting school any day now and so has left nursery ready to make the leap into reception class. She’d been going to this nursery for three years and so knew all the staff and had made a number of friends. Bizarrely, the experience
Over the past couple of months I’ve been test-driving a number of children’s books published by the Random House Group. Outlined below are a few of the titles that have been well received in this Household. Dandylion by Lizzie Finlay – With our eldest daughter about to start school we’ve casually been reading her a
