Miss Frugal has just come running downstairs rather excitedly, interrupting the lovely little snooze I was having, to share something with me....'Mam, I'm getting boobs, proper ones with big nipples - look, you can feel them if you want' After declining her lovely offer, I was then subjected to discussing which of her boobs were bigger and how big boobs may grow and she was thrilled to know that one day hers might be the same size as mine! Not one to be left out, Master Frugal then joined in with our boob discussion by declaring that his boobs were growing too and he had a pair of man … [Read more...]
How do you deal with Attitude….
I know it's not ideal to get parenting tips from Harry Enfield but when I think about my children growing up, I always picture Kevin from that Harry Enfield sketch - you know the one where he goes to bed on the eve of his thirteenth birthday as a sweet, loving twelve year old and gets up the following morning as a moody, hormonal teenager.Unfortunately, Miss Frugal has decided to ignore the Harry Enfield book of parenting and has started her teenage moods early which I'm finding extremely challenging at the moment. To be fair the moods are few and far between but we've had a couple in the … [Read more...]
What I don’t want my children to know….
I want what every parent wants - for my children to grow up feeling safe and loved but also confident and independent. I think I've mastered the safe and loved bit but as a natural born worrier, I have to try really hard to encourage the kids to be confident and independent which is really difficult for me. I never want them to know how much I worry when they play out with their friends and I can't see them, or how my heart's in my mouth when they ride their bikes too fast or even how it breaks my heart when one of them comes home upset because they've fallen … [Read more...]
Sorry….
I sent Miss Frugal to bed this morning after a quiet game of Lego Star Wars somehow ended up with Master Frugal being stabbed with a mini Lego lightsaber and screaming so loud that you would have thought that his whole arm had been chopped off!About five minutes later, I got a text from Miss Frugal (yes, she has her own phone) telling me to check my e mails....On her way upstairs, she'd sneakily grabbed her laptop (which she's normally only allowed to use in the same room as me) and was now apologising by e mail. Master Frugal read the e mails she'd sent him, decided to forgive … [Read more...]
The condom incident….
I was having a lovely browse through the cookbooks in Tesco yesterday trying to decide whether to buy the Baking Made Easy cookbook or the Jamie Oliver 30 Minute Meals one, when I was rudely interupted by Miss Frugal asking if she could have something she'd found. Being the crap good mother that I am, I didn't even look at what it was (I was busy after all), I just told her to go and ask her dad and got back to my cookbook selection process.Seconds later, I was rudely interrupted again by Mr Frugal demanding to know why I'd told her she could have a packet of condoms as long as he said it … [Read more...]
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