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AUG 08 - Toddzilla vs Mum-ra!

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cyteen · 13/01/2010 22:13

Once more with feeling

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RedLentil · 29/01/2010 16:23

Now she's crouching behind a chair.

She spent much of yesterday either behind a curtain or with a lego box on her head. As she had had no nap, the darkness of the box kept inducing little narcoleptic lurches. Too funny.

Hope you are better now TS.

VintageGardenia · 29/01/2010 16:35

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GladioliBuckets · 29/01/2010 17:18

Noticed The Humph was on MN today. I happen to know he is a crap granddad due to workaholism. However he regularly takes his gang of ancient newsreaders out to his Greek holiday home though which makes me laugh - you can imagine him calling them with a conch like on Anchorman 'NEEEEEWWWWWSTEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAM.'

Another lovely day with baby Squirt, crafty coffee club where he was v cuddly then lunch at Ikea. Haggis tonight, it was reduced.

SazzlesA · 29/01/2010 18:13

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alittlebitshy · 29/01/2010 19:07

am loling at red's dd2 .

Lovely day buckets. My ds was an utter grump today. I think because of a late (out) brekker he was hungry til then, then as he only had a snack before his nap (cos of late brekker) he was hungry the rest of the day and in such a mood. much happier and far less argumentative (ie doing what i just told him not to with a look of defiant intent on his face) mood.

vg lol at Saturday job. hey, we could send her down the mines, that would bring in some extra dish!! No, she was at an interview for a different school. we are utterly happy at the one she is at but she caught on that lots of her friends were doing the 7+ so she begged and we let her do it (for one school, the one she was talking about, not the 3 the other all were }. she has gone into is as her with no tutoring etc (she is 6 fgs) but dh was chatting to a mum from her class at the entrance exam last week and they said they do an hour of work with their dd each day. I am guessing that is on tip of the 20 mins for homework reading they get from school. craaaaazy. I am reaaalllllly hoping she doesn't get a place - bad mummy cos we like her current school but if she gets a scholarship (for which we had to fill in so many fecking financial details) it would be a no brainer. Otherwise we'd have to make a tough decision. But is is 3:1 on places so....... (by the by it is the school which miamla went to at secondary. in her day there was no prep part, but these days parents get the dc in at 7 so they have none of the torture at 11!)

pertelote · 29/01/2010 20:22

Oh dear, hands up, I am that pushy parent . DD can recognise most letters and numbers up to ten. BUT I would in no way call it spelling, it's just pattern recognition... she sees a cat and says 'dat', she sees a car and says 'vroom', she sees an A and says 'a' or sometimes 'Dan-dan' (= Uncle Andy). No difference as far as I can see, they just have good memories at this age and we have alphabet magnets on the fridge in a toy that says the sound when you fit them in (IYSWIM) so she plays with that a lot and it sticks in her mind. And we count things a lot and read a lot of books and so on... Please tell me if you think I am torturing her or training her for freak-dom and I will desist... Believe me I am VERY well aware that academic achievement is not the be-all-and-end-all or rainbow-paved road to happiness, though whether DH, PhD, agrees is another matter...

pertelote · 29/01/2010 20:25

Oh and Happy Birthday Miamla! Sorry should have said that first...

hotterpotter · 29/01/2010 21:00

LOL pert, DS is hard pressed to tell the difference between mummy and daddy

VintageGardenia · 29/01/2010 21:06

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VintageGardenia · 29/01/2010 21:08

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RedLentil · 29/01/2010 21:22

I let my daughter sit for most of the day with a box on her head.

What is this hot housing of which you speak?

SazzlesA · 29/01/2010 21:22

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hotterpotter · 29/01/2010 21:33

Listen to us mothers of feral more than one child

SazzlesA · 29/01/2010 21:38

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RedLentil · 29/01/2010 21:45

DH was chatting to ds about his (DS's) weird photographic memory tonight and dd1 chipped in by cramming her eyes shut and shouting: 'It's loading, it's loading. Yes! The map is pink!'

hotterpotter · 29/01/2010 21:46

Fantastically bizarre

SazzlesA · 29/01/2010 21:55

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SazzlesA · 29/01/2010 22:00

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hotterpotter · 29/01/2010 22:13

That has freaked DH out a bit

GladioliBuckets · 29/01/2010 22:15

Kurt is still working his one joke into the ground (putting things on his head like a hat) - I guess it's a classic. Oh no, I tell a lie, he does stage falls when I chase him, I think that counts as physical humour.

Right, have made 2 cakes this evening, now to go turn them into R2D2 for DS1's birthday party tomorrow morning. I may be sometime (via Sainsburys.)

SazzlesA · 29/01/2010 22:19

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hotterpotter · 29/01/2010 22:23

I pot-lucked it by blinking and hoping

Buckets DS' favourite game is playing boo behind the curtains good luck with the cake!

VintageGardenia · 29/01/2010 22:27

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pertelote · 29/01/2010 22:40

Wow Sazz that's cool. Will show it to DH when he gets home as one of the courses he teaches includes vision/illusion/psychology stuff. He is out rehearsing for a concert and I have just spent basically all the time since my last post putting DD to bed [knackered] I was at work today and DH let her nap until 4pm [grr].

Will accept the verdict of hothousing. Bet 5-pointer masterminders had pushy mummies who told them they were clever In my defence (?!) my house is a tip and my cake decorating skills are zero - sitting on the sofa reading books is my idea of very lazy parenting...

Ooo here's the man himself. Better go. Night ladies.

TwilightSurfer · 29/01/2010 22:51

I have soooooo not caught up but wanted to let Sazzles know there's a shout out from DD1 to you in a video over on my FB profile.

It's SNOWING! And my husband decided to remain a work for as long as possible. We live 25 or so miles from his work. Typical day you can make it 30 minutes EASY. Today, he may not make it the whole way. WHY WHY WHY And of all days for him to drive the race car and not the tough truck (we both have trucks mine just holds more people). ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

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