My mummy experience has clearly increased this week. One week of parenting a toddler can feel like an age, so I feel suitably placed to pass on nuggets of advice such as these:
- Toddlers lie. You may think your child is too angelic for such misdemeanours, but you are just kidding yourself. The age at which the law in Scotland believe people to know the difference between right and wrong is 8. I suspect, however, it may be more like 26 months. When I asked my 2 year old what she had done with her Granny on Monday morning she told me that they had both been ice skating and fed the lions sweets at the zoo. My mother has arthritis in her toes and would be cold in a sauna (she sits on her leather sofa on a blanket as she thinks leather is chilling to the bones). Taking all of this evidence into account I could only conclude that my angel was actually lying to my face. So how to deal with such bare faced lying. Well, you could take it as an active imagination and tell yourself that your toddler is just telling stories, or you could tell yourself that from this point on you will not be able to wholly trust your child. However, you can take solace in the fact that at this age they are not sophisticated liars and leave tell tale chocolate hand and face prints on your mirrors and windows yet tell you they haven’t touched your soft centres. Start worrying when their lies become more sophisticated, I say.
- Toddlers tell tales. I scrapped my husband’s nicer-than-mine car along our garden wall. Luckily for me (or so I thought) it was dark when he returned home and so did not notice. I told our 2 year old to not tell Daddy what I had done. She smiled at me conspiratorially and I thought we had a girls’ pact. I was to be disappointed as no sooner as she had run into the house she was shouting ‘Daddy! Daddy! Mummy broken car! Loud noise on wall!’ I was in for it. He was outside in a flash with his industrial sized torch inspecting the damage. I was to be ignored for the remainder of the evening while our toddler sat happily playing with her toys, smug that she had told her Daddy the truth. The moral of this story is that you should NEVER tell a toddler a secret –they don’t get it. However, as I am typing this blog I realise where she might have got her propensity to lie…..
Trawling the web for you this week, I have come across 5 must-have sites that will be of use to you and your family life:
This really helpful website works just like a search engine to help you find childcare in your area.
No pro-parent will be without this link. Bookmark it now! Watch all your child’s favourite Cbeebies characters and see how Big Cook can dissolve a child’s tears with a stir of his pan and how Momo Bot can quell a tantrum on this brilliant website.
The Independent Travel Directory for Families. Away With the Kids provides inspiring, carefully selected, child friendly family holidays in the UK and Ireland for you all to enjoy. Accommodation varies from award-winning child-friendly hotels, self catering cottages, farm-stays, scenic youth hostels, family campsites and welcoming bed and breakfasts; all with an emphasis on providing you with the basis for fabulous family holidays.
This is a really simple website that enables you to create your own bags for life with your own logo/image.
I am giving my own new shop a plug, because I can! The shop stocks approximately 500 items that range from baby goods, homewares, books and beauty. Shopping is simple, you just add items to your shopping cart and then process your payment through the Amazon website. This way you can benefit from free delivery (if you spend over £15 on qualifying items). If you would like to see something stocked in the Scotmum shop that you cannot find, please get in touch!
You may have seen that my panel of testers have been sampling face creams, today I thought I would share a product that I have reviewed which I think you may be interested in. This Cath Kidston Carry All Bag is brilliant. I actually have it in red, but you can get it now in a range of different oil cloth fabric prints. It is waterproof, wipeable and roomy enough for all your essentials.
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