Parenting

A boy made of blocks by Keith Stuart

September 1, 2016 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

I kind of wanted to hate this book. Yet another story of an autistic boy, rescued from his lonely locked in state by some external power, this time in the form of a computer game. But I didn’t. I don’t entirely love it either. Repeated references to the autism scale, what is that? Spectrum, not […]

Filed Under: 2016, Book club Tagged With: autism, minecraft, Parenting

Be a happier parent with NLP by Judy Bartowiak

July 10, 2015 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

buy at amazon This may be an unexpected post to see on this blog – I’m not sure that I’ve ever reviewed or even mentioned a parenting advice book or manual previously. That isn’t because I don’t read them though it’s irregular, it’s more because I don’t believe any one system has all the answers. […]

Filed Under: Book club, review Tagged With: blogtour, Judy Bartowiak, NLP, Parenting

Parenting spoons

September 25, 2014 By Jax Blunt 5 Comments

Not the parenting *of* spoons. Not quite. No, this is about the resources we all have. Anyone with chronic illness or disability has probably come across The Spoon Theory (If you haven’t, go read it. I’ll wait.) Are we all caught up? Now, I’m not going to say that parenting is like a chronic illness. […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: aspergers., home education, Parenting, the spoonie theory

Living vicariously.

December 11, 2012 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

There’s a danger, when you have children, to try to have a second go at life through them. To have them do the things you wish you could have done, to be able to glory in their achievements secondhand. It doesn’t work. Our children’s lives are their own, and we triumph most when we support […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: housework, organisation, Parenting

I’ll give you something to cry about.

April 26, 2012 By Jax Blunt 9 Comments

This morning I brought Smallest to the swimming pool for her weekly swimming lesson. It runs alongside a women’s only swimming session, populated mainly by women of a certain age. This leads to an interesting mix in the changing room, and this morning we just couldn’t seem to get out of the way of an […]

Filed Under: breastfeeding, ranting or raving, tigerboy Tagged With: breastfeeding, discipline, Parenting

French children don’t throw food – review.

February 6, 2012 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

I picked up a conversation about this book on twitter last week and was intrigued by the title. And then very grateful to be sent a copy for review. I was still so intrigued that I read it over the weekend, and had a few twitter conversations about it along the way. It’s written in […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: French Children Don't throw Food, Pamela Druckerman, Parenting

Hannibal returns.

June 2, 2011 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

Years ago, when I was a much younger and less experienced parent (and actually thought there might be a Right Way to do things, that only I didn’t know) Big went to nursery. It was a very good nursery. The staff cared very much about the children, and they were all very calm, highly qualified […]