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

YoungestGirl

We don’t need no education…

September 16, 2020 by NunntheWiser
YoungestGirl picture

My word, it’s been a long time since I have written a blog. I feel like I’ve aged about 200 years in the last six months, which is mostly down to homeschooling two children. Very honestly, we sort of had it easy compared with most parents. Both TheBloke (TM) and I work flexibly from home, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, school Tagged: EldestGirl, homeschool, homeschooling, YoungestGirl

Tantrum Time

February 11, 2019 by NunntheWiser

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

Let’s Cook the Books: The Gruffalo

December 23, 2018 by NunntheWiser

This month’s Let’s Cook the Books is slightly sneaky, firstly because it’s featuring YoungestGirl, rather than EldestGirl, and secondly because we’re not actually cooking a recipe from The Gruffalo itself (roasted fox, anyone?). YoungestGirl received for her birthday, from my lovely friend Erica, a fantastic children’s cookery book based on The Gruffalo. (Believe it or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: cooking, cooking with children, eggs, gruffalo cookbook, julia donaldson, lets cook the books, the gruffalo, YoungestGirl

Christmas Joy

December 4, 2018 by NunntheWiser
christmas tree baubles

I mean, I barely know where to start. When I was younger, I was never a big fan of Christmas; being indoors for several days whilst all the shops were shut and the weather was shit, and the heating was turned up too high was never my favourite time of year. Now I have my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Nursery, Potty training, toddler Tagged: alexa christmas lights, cat acne, christmas, christmas tree, eldest girl, ikea christmas tree, needles needles everywhere, pine needles, potty training, potty training failure, TheBloke, YoungestGirl

Bum Deal

November 15, 2018 by NunntheWiser
mad children

Wednesdays are my least favourite day. EldestGirl has a music class across town after school. The unpredictable traffic means that we tend to get in the car as soon as we’ve walked back from school and everyone has been to the toilet. If the traffic is OK we’re usually about 15 minutes early. I use … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Potty training, toddler Tagged: alvin and the chipmunks, EldestGirl, music class, potty reward chart, potty training, traffic jam, 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

Half-term Horizon

June 7, 2018 by NunntheWiser

Honestly, half term sort of snuck up on me. I was aware there was a bank holiday, and that looming at some point, there would be a half term, but I hadn’t properly, properly realised it was here until… it was here. We had planned… nothing. Shit. I desperately tried to overcompensate. Day One We made cornflour … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Food, school Tagged: baking, baking with children, challah bread, chocolate challah bread, cornflour goop, EldestGirl, half term, painting, pottery, pottery painting with children, swimming, swimming with children, when will half term be over, YoungestGirl

Clothes maketh the (wo)man

May 28, 2018 by NunntheWiser
EldestGirl with bow

We have always made an effort with both of our daughters, not to stereotype, not to call things “girly”, or to use words like “tomboy”. We preach that all colours are for everybody, that looking beautiful is less important than being kind. That being kind is important, but so is being clever. It has mostly … [Read more…]

Posted in: feminism, school Tagged: EldestGirl, feminism, gender, stereotypes, YoungestGirl

Equality Control

February 10, 2018 by NunntheWiser
childrens xylophone

I went to an all girls’ school. When I got to the sixth form, much excitement ensued, as we were trusted with our own little kitchenette, which contained a kettle, and was adequately stocked with tea, coffee and milk. I don’t believe there was a microwave, because although many of us were legal voting age … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, feminism, toddler Tagged: cooking, EldestGirl, equality, family chores, housework, sexism, splitting jobs equally, YoungestGirl
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