My not quite 5 year old daughter has very excitedly gone on her first ever trip to the cinema this afternoon, to see the new Disney film “The Princess and the Frog”. Apparently it is notable for having a black heroine (although surely Mulan, Pocahontas and Jasmine are far from white). But living in multicultural [...]
Archive for the ‘0-5s’ Category
It’s a girl thing?
Posted in 0-5s, Children, tagged gender, under fives on February 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Grandchildren make Grandparents Fat
Posted in 0-5s, Health, tagged grandparents, obesity on February 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Purely anecdotal, of course, but my experience is not this. Instead I find that in the process of trying to tempt my granddaughter with tasty morsels most of them end up in my mouth.
8 boys wanting a girl
Posted in 0-5s, pregnancy, tagged gender, girls, PGD, pregnancy on February 5, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Last night I watched “8 boys wanting a girl”, as a mum of 3 boys followed by a girl I thought perhaps the programme might carry thoughts I would resonate with and it did, but very few. How can any mother knowingly destroy perfectly healthy male embryos just because they aren’t female? I found this [...]
Women’s work?
Posted in 0-5s, Children, Employment, tagged breastfeeding, newborn, paternity leave, post natal depression on February 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
When I had my first (and last) child three years ago, Lord Blahblah skipped off on paternity leave when I was admitted to hospital to be induced on Wednesday morning (he may or may not have harboured dreams of writing his first novel, a week-long bender wetting the baby’s head and 14 hours sleep a [...]
Audit commission report – what’s not made the media
Posted in 0-5s, Children, Health, tagged audit commission, under fives on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning the papers & broadcast news were full of reports that ‘Labour spending has failed to improve child health’ and that a wave of policies were not offering ‘value for money’. I was interested to see on what grounds these claims were being made, and if it was a fair summary of the Audit [...]
