‘Me’ is You and ‘You’ is Me

Not that I’m a paranoid parent or anything, but ocassionally i check Georgia’s developments againsts ‘Your child should be doing….’ lists through random google searches. Mainly to know what to expect, and of course the ‘kia su’ in me, jumps for joy when I find out that her development is way advanced for her meagre [...]

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Conversations with Georgia: Ask nicely like Iggle Piggle

Apparently Iggle Piggle from In the Night Garden is polite — even though all he says is — Eek. The conversation went like this… 
G: Close it! Close it!
Me: Hey – that’s not nice. Ask nicely. Say Please close it. You must be polite.
G: Pease… Georgie be polite, like Iggle Piggle.
Me: Oh…is Iggle Piggle polite? (This is [...]

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Georgia Singing

In case, our readers are concerned, Georgia did NOT have to sing for her supper, and she was eating her jelly dessert at the time of this recording.

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Being polite…

It has always been very important to me to teach Georgia to say “Please” when she wants something and “Thank you” when she’s gotten hold of it.
I didn’t realise how strongly the message had been getting through until yesterday….after doing a half-decent job trimming her fringe (it was getting in to her eyes), she turned [...]

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Daddy-song

Georgia’s very own made-up daddy song
Dad-dy, dad-dy, dad-dy
I love you…
Dad-dy, dad-dy, dad-dy
Likes to drink co-fee

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Hey there Georgie-girl

When we decided to name our then unborn child Georgia, the only reason for it was that it was the only name we could agree upon based on the long list of parameters, such as ‘not too popular’, ’sounds nice’, ‘not too girly’… and yes, we do know of the Georgie-porgie nursery rhyme.
Still it is [...]

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