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They'd love to now hear what you have done to go the extra mile for your kids out of sheer love, to put a smile on their face or - let's face it, to demonstrate your Mother-Superior (or Father-Superior) - parenting skills to the teacher/ other parents . Or even what you let slide so that your DC are happy.

For example: Have you ever found yourself working on a World Book Day costume in the wee small hours of the morning? Or spent days tracking down a toy or piece of clothing you know your child will really, really love? Maybe you've gone slightly OTT on your child's most recent project, or found yourself booking days out just so the class bear can give a good account of his time spent with your family. Have you allowed 'treats' just to make them happy?

If you've gone the extra mile, dug especially deep to pull something amazing out of the bag to be show your self as a great parent, or let your normal standards slip just to make them happy, we want your stories here!

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Let her wee on my lap rather than whip her onto the potty when she was poorly and very comfortable after a lot of soothing

My daughter loves bugs and creepy crawlies. Her birthday was coming up and we already had the cake (a good ol' caterpillar). But she had seen a ladybird one... that could not be bought. I then spent 8 hours making a ladybird cake with matching ladybird babies

It was more than worth it for her little face :P

I walked for hours retracing all of the shopping centre to find our favourite lost teddy.

as a surprise i decided to take my kids off to lego land in windsor, i brought them straight from school in wigan and drove to windsor in a nice hotel. the children didnt know where we was off and due to being in school they fell a sleep straight away and woke up around 40 mins from where we was staying, as you can guess we did not tell them where we was or where we was going! they loved it, it was all worth the smiles on the face.

I remember licking chutney off a cheese and chutney sandwich because ds when aged 3 was hungry at Stansted airport and they had no plain cheese. It was 8am. The thought of it still makes me feel ill.

We once bought a fairy door & set it up whilst the children were asleep. For the following 2 weeks every evening we did different things & left little gifts. Their faces in the morning when the fairies had been was lovely. They were even more impressed when the fairies had been naughty & made a glittery mess!

Ringing up almost every Disney store in the South of England to track down a much wanted sleeping beauty toy set! Got there eventually!

I'm sure Mums do these things every week! Tomorrow I am wearing a matching disguise to the cinema with my 7 year old because he's really embarrassed that he wants to see the new Thomas the Tank film. (He's too old and cool now).

I let mine do all sorts of crafts on the weekend and they can make as much mess as they like. I changed my dining room into a messy room for them, they love it and it keeps them occupied for hours.

i suprised them with not 1 but 2 kittens. aft 2 years of being begged.

and i took my lunch hour to drive home to get ds2s lunch he had made himself for school. he was offered school dinners but was so upset at forgetting his hard crafted lunch, i snuck out on my lunch break, drove home and delivered it to school. didnt get a chance to eat or break myself, but his face was worth every tantrum and strop since.

Let my DS watch Peppa Pig for 3 hours solid because he wasn't very well.

I can't stand Peppa Pig!

spending our only days off doing things for the children taking our daughter to dog shows so she can enter Junior handling each week. Organising our days so they can attend majorettes, clubs and visiting friends ! As long as our children are happy we are

Spending a whole day cooking special snacks for school like spinach muffins, homemade sausage rolls, courgettes brownies and freeze them so my DC could have them ready in the morning for school.

I used my birthday money to buy my girls a 10ft trampoline, the smile on their faces when they saw it in the garden was worth every penny

Sharing my food & drink, I never used to do that! :P

I have an example of going the extra mileS. When DS was 18 months I was in Paris with work when DH phoned me to tell me he was taking him to A&E with a chest infection. I stopped what I was doing, packed, got in a taxi, got onto a plane, was picked up at Heathrow, drove 60 miles and went straight to the hospital. I then spent three nights sleeping beside his bed adjusting his oxygen mask throughout the day and night so he was getting enough oxygen. Thank goodness for the NHS.

We spend whole evenings with me reading to them aloud sometimes - at their request. We've read The Hobbit, and are on The Lord of the Rings. They really enjoy this and I'm sure it's better for them than TV or computer games.

My daughter was very upset on her first day at nursery so we took her out for tea and bought her a small magical unicorn presented in a magical pink box where it would sleep and a card from mummy and daddy say how proud we were that she completed her first day at nursery.
We went on to tell her that if she held the unicorn and wished for a good day she would have a great day at nursery all the time.
From that day we had no problems and she looked forward to nursery

It was one Christmas When my older son was four he was really into thunderbirds.(big toy that year) Well I checked everywhere everyday until one day close to Christmas I checked all the usual stores and then rang Argos who confirmed they has a deliver that morning well I drop the kids at my mums race down to the town couldn't fine any parking space so I parked in a permit only area even though I didn't have a permit. Run my little heart out to Argos only to queue for nearly 45minutes. Yes I did get that tracy island but I also got a nice parking ticket to go with it. A very expensive toy in the end. I swore I would never do it again but now with my little ones here I think I probably would just to see that smile.

We had a "yes" day, I played Lego all day long, it would've been ok if I hadn't been giving dirty looks whenever I built something, apparently I don't know how to do it properly.

Letting them sleep in my bed every night and never sleeping myself because they are afraid of the 'bogey man'

I had my third child recently and so that his older siblings wouldn't feel left out - I got them to choose some decorative boxes and said the baby would be putting some gifts in there. So I had stockpiled some little items already and went out to get other activities for them. They absolutely loved the variety of gifts.

Always putting money in her piggy bank even if I don't have a lot myself. And all those early mornings :)