To the teacher at my son’s new nursery, who phoned to tell me he had settled almost immediately after a particularly awful drop-off this morning, thank you. Thank you for knowing that, an hour after I walked away from him – as he cried and kicked and screamed his way through another defiant display on […]
Family: 8 Things Worth Buying Before Your Toddler Starts Preschool
The Boy is starting at a new preschool this September. It’s just across the road – at the primary school he’ll *hopefully* start at the following year – so the idea is that by sending him for a couple of days a week over the next year, we’ll ease him in to the whole thing […]
Family: We’re A Year Off Starting School, So Why Am I Worried?
It feels like everyone around me is talking about school admissions at the moment. The Boy is still a year off – it’ll be this time next year when we’re anxiously awaiting the news of whether he got in to our number-one choice or not. But I’m already worried. Before you say it, yes, I […]