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Pretending to be grown up, married and parenting two children... but I'm still Nunn the Wiser

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Tantrum Time

February 11, 2019 by NunntheWiser 1 Comment

I thought we had got off lightly with YoungestGirl’s tantrums. She is annoyingly difficult to discipline, usually smiling beguilingly when you tell her off, or making you laugh despite yourself, but the positive side of this is she rarely loses control into a full-blown tantrum. Whenever EldestGirl was made to sit on the naughty step, … [Read more…]

Posted in: toddler Tagged: EldestGirl, naughty step, sleep tantrums, tantrum, tiredness, toddler meltdowns, toddler tantrums, YoungestGirl

Nursery neuroses

September 17, 2018 by NunntheWiser
School uniform photo

YoungestGirl had been to nursery before. But she had taken the summer off, and today, she started properly at her new nursery, which is based at EldestGirl’s school. Where EldestGirl is largely self-contained, YoungestGirl is – ahem – expressive with her emotions. She cried every day we took her to her old nursery (and then … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Nursery, school, toddler Tagged: new nursery, nursery, settling in, starting nursery, tantrum, tantrums, YoungestGirl

Holiday hysteria

September 9, 2018 by NunntheWiser
Minehead Sea

The extra inset days from EldestGirl’s school seemed like a gift at the time. “Let’s use the extra week to take the cherubs on a holiday we could only normally do in term-time!” we squealed excitedly, before booking a Butlin’s break, because, frankly, we’d forgotten the bad bits from last year. This time EldestGirl and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Sleep, toddler, Travel Tagged: bed guards, butlins, butlins just for tots, co-sleeping, EldestGirl, holiday, minehead, school holidays, sharing a room, sleep, tantrum, travel, YoungestGirl

Drinking in the Sun

August 20, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Readers, we are in week 693 of the school summer holidays and we are all still alive. I attribute this amazing success to my brilliant invention of the Summer Holiday Imbibing Task (SHIT). Basically, children are dicks. You know they’re dicks. I know they’re dicks. Being with them 24 hours a day, 7 days a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Potty training, toddler, Travel Tagged: children are dicks, holiday, Legoland, summer, summer holiday drinking game, summer holidays, tantrum, toddler

Hat Trick

April 22, 2018 by NunntheWiser
Sun hat on the beach in Port Elizabeth

“EldestGirl, why were you the only child not wearing your sunhat when I picked you up from school today?” I asked. “I don’t like it, Mummy. It’s a bit embarrassing.” You know what, fair enough. It’s bright pink (not her favourite colour), and I had hoped the fact that it had sun-activated designs that appeared … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family Tagged: fashion choices, hat, mummy head on fire, sunhat, tantrum

Let it snow, let it snow, let it… STOP.

March 3, 2018 by NunntheWiser
girls on sleds

On Thursday, EldestGirl’s school was closed because of some severe snow locally. TheBloke (TM) and I are in the extremely fortunate position of not needing to battle to get to an office, and so I, at least, was delighted at #makingmemories (vom vom vom) but I genuinely was a little bit excited about doing loads … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, toddler Tagged: groundhog day, instagram, sled, sledge, sledging, snow, snow day, soblessed, tantrum, toddler tantrums

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