| Coffee and children - a bad combination
This is the one where a child washes their hands in my coffee. Generally, I am pretty liberal-minded when it comes to eating and drinking. I will eat food I drop on the floor at home...
20/10/2010 |
| Understanding your baby
Parenting just got easier. The Couple Connection have launched an interactive online game for parents that helps you to understand your newborn. The free...
13/10/2010 |
| Sleepovers - how old should children be?
Belle wants a sleepover. *groans* She’s never had a friend from school sleep over before, or been invited come to that. I don’t know if it’s just that at eight...
12/10/2010 |
| Photobox - Slummy Mummy review
When I first began blogging, I never imagined it would get read, that I would become part of the ‘blogosphere’ or that, heaven forbid, I would actually have to meet anyone face to face...
11/10/2010 |
| How to get rid of your mummy tummy...hopefully
How to get rid of your mummy tummy. Hopefully. October 5, 2010 in Reviews | Tags: mummy tummy, slendertone, exercise, cakes There is a photo of me lurking somewhere in cyberspace, taken at the MADS, where I look about five months pregnant...
11/10/2010 |
| Win a designer handbag - vote for a special celebrity mum
Vote for your favourite celebrity mum and be in with a chance to win a designer handbag, courtesy of Bounty - the UK's favourite parenting club. I must say I am VERY excited about this competition...
07/10/2010 |
| Review of Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom
Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom is an animated, pre-school adventure from the makers of Peppa Pig. The stories tell the adventures of Princess Holly and Ben the Elf...
07/10/2010 |
| Singing with children - Toy Box Review
The Toy Box - Nursery Rhymes CD Review We reviewed Toy Box - the latest CD of nursery rhymes with a twist, to see if it made singing about eggs, mice and old Macdonald even more fun...
30/09/2010 |
| Slummy Mummy at the fair
Bridgwater is generally a pretty crappy place to live. Somerset as a county has a lot going for it, but Bridgwater, quite frankly, doesn’t. Since the cellophane factory closed down a few years ago...
28/09/2010 |
| Slummy Mummy - A question of nits
Nits. Yuk. They’re the bane of every parent’s life. Everyone dreads that letter home from school – ‘someone in the class has nits, please check your child’s hair thoroughly...
24/09/2010 |
| Slummy Mummy's guilty secret
Recently I seem to have developed a rather worrying and shameful habit. I think I have become addicted to Sex and the City. As you can read here, I was a late starter when it came to Carrie and her oh-so-stylish chums...
23/09/2010 |
| Being a good enough parent
I was recently asked to write a series of posts about parenthood for Bounty. The idea was to provide a realistic, honest account of motherhood, that wasn’t all about introducing home-made...
20/09/2010 |
| Toys that teach
Toys that teach are a great way to make learning fun, so if your little one is ready to read, then you'll want to know about these genius educational toys from LeapFrog which are as enjoyable as they are educational...
17/09/2010 |
| Slummy Mummy wins MAD blog awards
A more sober thank you… Do you remember a few months ago me banging on at you to vote for me in the MAD blog awards? Well last night, after months of nervous nail-biting...
17/09/2010 |
| Slummy Mummy - The man of my dreams…
Last night I had one of those dreams about being in love. When I was younger I used to have them about piles of pound coins, huge mountains of them that I would discover behind the sofa and run my hands through greedily...
15/09/2010 |
| Gap years - valuable learning experience?
I was reading a report today in The Guardian about student gap years, which claimed that for many young people, they are basically just an excuse for a year of excess – remote beach raves, drug fuelled orgies, and sexual promiscuity...
10/09/2010 |
| Disturbing picture of the day
One of our Quality-time-family days-out over the summer holidays was to Wookey Hole - you may remember it being in the news a while ago when they advertised for a new witch...
10/09/2010 |
| Can money buy you love?
I was coming home from visiting a friend in Cambridge over the summer holidays, and as I drove down the slip road onto the motorway I was faced with a giant billboard...
08/09/2010 |
| The first sign of madness
I was walking through town yesterday morning, enjoying the freedom of the first day back at school, when I heard music coming from somewhere. It was a tune I knew and liked – I could just hear it faintly...
06/09/2010 |
| George’s Marvellous Medicine review
“…fizzle, frazzle, and shout HOORAY!!” At George’s insistence, as he stirred up his giant metal pan of medicine, every child in the Bristol Hippodrome...
03/09/2010 |
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