Raising kids website has reported on a BBC survey that has released some interesting data on average families in Britain. Here are some of the stats;
Average Family Size = 2 Adults and 1.8 Children
I don’t really understand how they arrived at 2 adults, we’re always being told about the rise in one parent [...]

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We’ve decided to return to our honeymoon destination of Prague to celebrate ten years together. The plan at the moment is to stay for four night sans Erin in the Falkensteiner hotel in October next year. Having only spent one night away from Erin at a time this will be a real ‘holiday’. [...]

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I had the rare opportunity last week to catch up with current affairs. I ended up watching about half of David Cameron’s annual speech to the Conservative Party. There were a few interesting points, along with quite a bit of fluff, one of which was the idea of a National Citizens Service. [...]

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I started my decluttering plan on Sunday by doing a boot sale. It was a strange kind of day. Up at 6am, drove to boot sale site (first time we’ve ever been to this one) where we were versed on the ‘rules’. No setting up until the claxon sounds. Claxon will [...]

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I’m not sure I’ve heard anything quite as riduculous for sometime.
Butlins are offering parents midweek breaks where they’ll be able to get advice on avoiding tantrums and sticking to eating/sleeping routines whilst on holiday. The ‘advice’ will be given by specially trained redcoats.
I have more than a few problems with this. For [...]

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Here is a picture of me proudly erecting the Sold sticker to my For Sale board. The proposed move in date is 23rd November 2007, so I have already begun sorting out a lot of stuff and plan to do a boot sale on Sunday.
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The Carnival of Family Life (last week, sorry a bit [...]

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You may have read in my last post that we have bought a house. We currently live in a flat in Edinburgh so this will be a big change. The new house is just outside Edinburgh and finally we’ll have our longed after garden - front and back! We now have the task [...]

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Erin’s achievements this week have included counting to six, drawing on my shoes, saying “sausage” and “bubbles”, drawing on the highchair, completing a jigsaw alone, drawing on the wall, occupying herself in the morning with a book while I wake up, drawing on her toy kitchen. Are you following the pattern? The toddler [...]

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Erin had her first gymnastics class on Saturday. It’s held at the local gym, I was impressed to find they had all the miniature apparatus like mini bars, beam and vault. Erin tried the bars and the vault, the beam was a bit too much for her - hopefully next week. At [...]

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Abel Cheng of Parent Wonder tipped me off to this article which covers the stories of four different sets of people that have started their own schools. Two of the families because of poor state education, one a specialist autistic shool, and the other specialising in teaching those with dyslexia.
The story that caught my [...]

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