Ding Dong Merrily On High..it's December in the pushchair shed!

[maxybrown]

24 DAYS TO GO YIPPEE YIPPEE YIPPEE!!! [GRIN][GRIN][GRIN]

Happy December everyone!

lol jan! glad you won, toms school is the same with the constant texting! wonder what next year will be like i will have one in reception and one starting secondary school.

Grrrrr to homework!!

Anyone know a cheaper courier for around £5?
Can only find the £3.99 one that you have to drop off at a shop, which wouldn't be a hassle but says recipient also has to collect at a shop/ similar too.

don't my hermes collect from door?

Thanks Nicola, added that one to my faves.
Parcel was just over 2kg so just took to PO for the £7.06. Gah lost out as only charged £5 postage.
Never mind, some you win.....

Bexie, I found 3 little beanie tubbies, and friction Noonoo, would you liek them for postage, I dont need them.
DD is reception, and she loves reading and writing, she likes copying words down to paper, and make shopping lists.
Thanks all who heped me to get my head about carseats. For some reason i beleived their head should be under the top of the carseat back.
Nicola, what is Rodi like, is better as next stage carseat. DD got Graco rally in pink, and i find it really hard.

Buggyboard I sold on ebay cost £6.60 to send 1st class recorded and i'd only charged £5. Grr!

Diva, what tubbies are they?

I'm getting the Rodi for Tom. Am hoping somewhere will have them reduced to around £65 like they did just before summer. I can see him being in XP till at least then.

Oh how timely that you are discussing car seats - need to get one for dd (5) and was thinking about a rodi - what do you think to them Nicola?

yes i really like the rodi, gives nice head support i really like maxi cosi anyway.

we might be selling our car in january and not replacing it just so expensive to run as its on finance its a big chunk each month, i think we could live without it! So i will be selling our maxi cosi priori xp in the new year.

I've just made the fatal mistake of looking at rear facing seats and things etc....and baby Joel who broke his neck Hideous. Still don't know what we can get to fit in the back of our car.

See I think by the time homework is actually important in secondary school kids are that fed up of doing it they don't want to. When I was in primary school the only homework we had was reading and we were all actually really excited to get and do the homework in secondary school cos it meant we were all grown up And if learning spellings isn't actually a helpful way of learning how to spell then even if it's only 10 or 15 minutes a night then it's a bit pointless imo.

I was never excited about homework.........never!!

Evening all, first day not being at work today (well I don't work on a thurs normally anyway)

I was under the impression that most schools are expecting parents to sit down and do homework with their children even if that is 10 mins of spelling. I'm personally against the system (like in is it Netherlands??) where children don't start formal education until age 7 as ALL their learning is through play.

Nothing will ever suit every child, whatever method really kids just want to learn. Whether that is through play or more structured reading etc. I LOVED school and couldn't get enough, simply from having an older sister I wanted to do what she did. You know your own child better than anyone. I know dd loves words, books, songs, reading and I think will love playgroup and school as I did whereas her dad hates to read a book which is so alien to me.

I may be outdated as I love learning and think dd is the same and so I want her spelling and reading and writing even if that is not the current way that's how it will be in our house!!

carrie i would hope all schools would want parents to sit down with their kids so there is that home school link but a lot of them only insist on reading in primary school. Unfortunately none of our local schools are of that frame of mind Learning through play doesn't really have any disadvantages as opposed to the formal sit down at desk type of learning. It's much easier to learn about stuff if you can actually do it and see how it works rather than just having it explained to you or reading about it. One person tried to tell me they would never learn to sit still at the table which is rubbish cos even when learning through play they have to do that - to colour and draw, to do jigsaws and building, to listen to storytime etc. If I had someone to help me I would seriously consider keeping him at home instead of going to school. I know schools try as best they can to cater to everybody's individual needs but like you say it's just not going to be possible a lot of the time. Not whilst classes remain as big as they are at the moment anyway.

Evening ladies

Sold the aran footmuff. Now I need to sell some more stuff and buy myself something nice (and pram like) in the sales.

Hi there.
On nursery. I liked the nursery the DDs attend/ed because it had an emphasis on play. Some others talked about maths and teaching them french which I just didn't like the sound of. As an ex reception teacher I know that play is very important to young children and even the older children too.
The homework level at school seems ok but I hate the expectation that parents have to sit down to it too! Suddenly this year I am having to hear DD1 [10] read three times a week too. I haven't heard her read since about year 3.
DD2 had a booster seat from age 4.

I've just sold my Pulse. Just need to give it a good wash but god knows how I will get it dry when it is so cold!

Sorry nappy I got the wrong end of the stick I thought you were saying that it's the teacher's job (only) and I was a bit .

I know what you mean about having things shown to you, that is such a great way to learn, learn if you do it wrong, trying again etc. Just as you can learn from reading it in a book and can just 'know' how to do it. One of my worries for dd is how large class sizes will affect her. She was going to go to a private school (much to my teacher sister's disgust!!) but with the arrival of splodge the lack of pennies has put an end to that!!

nappy, depends on which sort of learner you are! If I am sat in a lecture..........that's me gone!! off to the land of the fairies, I would neeed to be doing and trying it out myself. Dh could sit at lectures all day.........and give them

I would say though it's quite common for people to not be able to learn either by someone just talking at them or reading about it but it's a lot less common for people not to be able to learn by doing.

hehe, the homework shed! Sometimes I liked it, other times I hated it. I always remember my dad doing my brothers for him.

I've got loads of xmas cards to send but am waiting for Toms nursery photos to come, grr! Have my work night out on saturday and i'll go if i'm feeling ok. Think i've finally recovered from my shopping trip to Glasgow, lol.

Goodness Bexie you not got those pics yet? Seems ages ago.
I'm hoping the one of the boys be ready at toddlers tomorrow, fingers crossed. Night xx

No, am very peeved as need to send a bigger one with my parents parcel!

morning all

nedd advice girls i bought 4 jigsaws off ebay postage was £2.60 per jigsaw but buyer said he would combine postage (i looked at his other items and he has 3 jigsaws on bin with £4.81 postage) so i expected about £6-£7 postage. he is charging me £10.25 for the 4 for 2nd class postage do youthink im fair in asking if i can arrange courier to collect?

Sal i'd tell him to forget it personally!!! what size are the jigsaws?¬ i'd ask him what they weigh!! im sure they could go standard parcels less than half of that. So many people are ripping off on postage atm.

Sal, he's only taken 15p off!! Hasn't he/ Too early for my brain Ask him if that's correct as in his other auctions he was charging X amount and that you presumed when he said he would combine it would be more than a 15p saving going off his other auctions?!

The only thing sending standard is as a seller you are not protected, but Sal, if needbe arrange courier if he will let you.