This parenting reality has never seemed so strange.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Monday, 30 April 2012
The Written word
I found this in my pocket the other day from a child long left . I do believe that notes and letter and diaries
etc are timeless. So if you have done someone a social injustice in some way why not send them an email . ok so an email is quicker. , But why not reinforce it with a nice hand written note believe me it reinforces forgiveness in so many ways.
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Caption Saturday #satcap 28/4/2012
One of those useless items you pick up from your holidays, this was picked up in Dubai you do these things to keep your children quiet... What crap lovely items have you got that your children have made you buy ?
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The growing pains of a parent helped by Adrian Mole
My son is 13 and 3/4 just the same age as Adrian Mole in the book that was monumental in my childhood. Reading books are a right of passage , it is a skill that is passed on when your parents read to you . Whilst reading with your parents brings you together reading on your own brings the world to you and opens your eyes and senses.
My son was worried that he really wasn't getting that far in his English, he is however top stream and really has nothing to fret apart. But as he goes to one of these new fangled Academies the pressure is on whether it is fair is another debate and another length blog post. It is hard to believe that this great book is indeed thirty years old. The book when it came out coincided with the Falklands War of 1982 at which time I was 10 years old and at such an age I wasn't reading the book.
I came to read this book in 1986 whilst my friends were living it up wearing ra -ra skirts and ba boopers and dancing to the the likes of Duran Duran , A-Ha etc were a phenomenon this book was too! And it was one that spread all over the country. I had my nose in a book, I always had a nose in a book.The book gripped me as it was in an easy style to read as in it in diary form. So it is perfect for a boy to read some parents might um and err about handing t such a book over to their child at this age. Though believe me your child knows more then you think, 13 (teenage) is the age where they snigger at set phrases.
Of course like Adrian Mole my son has pretentions to being intellectual by the other books he reads ( some of which I read as a child and I have encouraged him to read ) The book is a parenting manual in effect ! Although I don't think my son is love struck , angst sometimes yes.
So whilst times have obviously moved on this book will no doubt tickle him in some sort of fashion. He is going on rugby tour soon I am sure that there will be worse going off on that than there is in this book!
A diary is a tangible commodity which you can sense and feel as you are reading it. I wonder if Adrian Mole was to do a diary now would it have the same effects in the realms of social media? Do you keep a handwritten diary and of so would you donate it to the British Museum for its future posterity ?
My son was worried that he really wasn't getting that far in his English, he is however top stream and really has nothing to fret apart. But as he goes to one of these new fangled Academies the pressure is on whether it is fair is another debate and another length blog post. It is hard to believe that this great book is indeed thirty years old. The book when it came out coincided with the Falklands War of 1982 at which time I was 10 years old and at such an age I wasn't reading the book.
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| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend |
I came to read this book in 1986 whilst my friends were living it up wearing ra -ra skirts and ba boopers and dancing to the the likes of Duran Duran , A-Ha etc were a phenomenon this book was too! And it was one that spread all over the country. I had my nose in a book, I always had a nose in a book.The book gripped me as it was in an easy style to read as in it in diary form. So it is perfect for a boy to read some parents might um and err about handing t such a book over to their child at this age. Though believe me your child knows more then you think, 13 (teenage) is the age where they snigger at set phrases.
Of course like Adrian Mole my son has pretentions to being intellectual by the other books he reads ( some of which I read as a child and I have encouraged him to read ) The book is a parenting manual in effect ! Although I don't think my son is love struck , angst sometimes yes.
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| Tennager angst here read Adrian Mole then.... |
So whilst times have obviously moved on this book will no doubt tickle him in some sort of fashion. He is going on rugby tour soon I am sure that there will be worse going off on that than there is in this book!
A diary is a tangible commodity which you can sense and feel as you are reading it. I wonder if Adrian Mole was to do a diary now would it have the same effects in the realms of social media? Do you keep a handwritten diary and of so would you donate it to the British Museum for its future posterity ?
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