Tag: Children
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How do you tell your children about climate change?
This cartoon of my daughter aged 7 is basically a revamp of an earlier cartoon I drew when she was 4: Her reactions have not changed in that time, she is still very sensitive and prone to dramatic meltdowns about the smallest of things, and I still haven’t had a talk with her or her […]
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Willingen
For the Autumn half term holiday, we went to a family friendly hotel in Willingen, Germany which is a four-hour drive from our house in Brussels. We left the day after the girls had participated in a Halloween trick or treat parade round our neighbourhood (so the three-year-old had had sweets for the first time […]
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First day of school
My baby is growing up! I don’t know which of us cried more at her first drop off, Isabel or me. (In Belgium they start school at age 2 and half which just seems impossibly young)
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Center Parcs
In May we went to Center Parcs in De Haan, Belgium for the long weekend and it was quite possibly the worst holiday we’ve ever been on. To start with I got the dates of our trip wrong, so we spent the entirety of Thursday morning packing up the car while the girls got steadily […]
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Top 3 tantrums of the year
Our two year olds top three tantrums of 2021. She’s still only 2 and a half so another 6 months of the terrible twos to go!
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Family Life
A large part of our family life is shouting things/desperately trying to hear what is being shouted up and down the staircase while one or both children has a meltdown. I have no idea what people with big houses do! Also I’m not sure how much it’s pandemic related or how much it just is […]
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1+1=?
When the two of them argue they competitively wail to get my sympathy/attention until they reach a crescendo and have to be taken to different rooms to calm down.
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