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Life with Older Children

For me, parenting older children has been sooo much easier than parenting babies and toddlers! I know it isn’t the case for everyone but being able to sleep all night, having six hours a day of peace and quiet while they are at school and them even making me the occasional cup of tea certainly seems preferable to me! 

My posts about older children are split into three categories. Parenting older children, school and learning and fun with older children.

Parenting older children contains posts that offer advice about looking after older children. Things like eating, sleeping and anxiety are covered.

School and Learning contains posts about supporting older children throughout their education as well as resource guides on particular topics.

Fun with older children includes things like toys that my children have enjoyed and reviews of days out.

If you have older children you might also be interested in reading the posts in the Free Range Parenting category which includes stuff about playing out and managing boredom.

Why My Daughter Goes to Bed Without Dinner Most Nights

Written by Josie

Fussy toddler

Girl Child has always been a fussy eater. When Boy Child was a baby, he would eat anything he was given. Not so Girl Child. Both of them were weaned with baby led weaning (because I’m too lazy to purée). Both of them were breastfeed until they were 13 months (because I’m too lazy to […]

Filed Under: Parenting Older Children

Surviving Kid’s Birthday Parties: The Reception/Year 1 Party Deluge

Written by Josie

Two children eating party food at a reception birthday party

What is the Reception/year one party deluge? I hear you ask. It starts when primary school begins, between the Christmas your child is in reception until the Christmas when they are in year one. During this time many Mum’s (presumably against their better judgement) decide they should hold an all class reception birthday party for […]

Filed Under: Fun with Older Children

Dinotropolis Bluewater Review: What we Liked and What we Didn’t

Written by Josie

Anamatronic dinosaur

Dinotropolis is a new Dinosaur adventure attraction at Bluewater shopping centre.  It’s a dinosaur themed soft play with some really awesome added extras. We were gifted tickets in exchange for a review but all opinions are our own. Check out our dinotropolis bluewater review to see how we got on. Arriving at Dinotropolis Bluewater  We visited […]

Filed Under: Fun with Older Children

Why I Wish I had chosen Deferred School Entry for my Summer Born Son

Written by Josie

Summer born child on the first day of school

My oldest child is a July baby, so falls well into the summer born category. Before he started school I looked into the possibility of deferring him a year. Ultimately we decided not to. He’s in year 4 at now but with the benefit of hindsight I wish I had chosen deferred school entry. Hopefully […]

Filed Under: School and Learning

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A blog about trying to raise independent kids while retaining a sense of humour. Me: I’m Josie, a 43 year old introvert and former librarian. Them: My husband Chris, Boy Child who is 11 and Girl Child who is 9. The others: Hera the cat and Baxter the dog. Read More…

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