Tag: milestones

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Has Yours Reached “Toddlerdom” Yet?!

Posted on by Emma Reed

*Definition*

Toddlerdom- The term used to describe the final transition from cute baby to full-blown crazy toddler.

Not quite yet in the Oxford English Dictionary but I am pretty sure the term will catch on!

Do you remember when your little bundle of joy was just that? A teeny bundle plus a joy! If that seems a distant memory

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It Will All Come Together In Time

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This was going to be a ‘top tip potty training’ type blog post to help guide fellow parents through what is always portrayed as a tricky period and one where we all become sick to death of saying ‘do you need a wee?!’

However, after attempting the potty training

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Does every child need to tick every box?

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So why do we as parents sometimes feel like we aren’t doing a good enough job or feel there is competition amongst other parents? There was one area I discovered a few weeks ago that could attribute; the health visitor review…

I received my son’s 2-year health visitor review pack in the post and thought‘oh here we go, lots of activities to test like at the one-year one’. How many of us run around the house checking what our 2-year-olds can do?!

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