Tag: Children
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THE FEAR
It is hard to express just how terrifying it is to hear your child cry through the baby monitor after you have spent hours going through their bedtime routine trying to get them to sleep.
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Cartoons of my younger daughter
Finally I’ve had a bit more time to do some drawing after what has seemed like a never ending series of ‘holidays’ (my daughters are in different schools at the moment and their holiday dates don’t match up) . These are some cartoons I had the idea for ages ago but have only just gotten…
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Boulogne-sur-mer
For the February half-term holiday we went to Boulogne-sur-mer in France (about a two and half hour drive from Brussels, and only 20 minutes from the Eurotunnel in Calais). The aquarium Nausicaa near the centre of Boulogne is well worth visiting with kids. It bills itself as the biggest aquarium in Europe, and the main…
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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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