mychild interview and Batman at the nativity
I'm following in the footsteps of Linda Jones and Rosie Scribble and am FMB (Favourite Mummy Blogger!) for this week on the mychild website! You can read the interview here

What should I be teaching my 4 year old?
Learning is the hot topic among my friends with four year olds. We've been talking about letters and numbers and our children writing their names. Most of us have boys and there seems to be agreement that the girls are understanding these things sooner. When it comes to the boys we've all been saying things like 'he's not interested in reading short words / writing his name / counting,' etc. I've been saying it because

A Toddler's Dictionary - in aid of Bliss
The mums networking site Mums Like You has sent me a copy of their Toddler's Dictionary. Put together with the shopping site Mothers of Innovation, this is a very cute booklet which compiles over 200 toddler words. The booklet was produced after a competition was run on the Mums Like You w

Another post-baby celeb picture: I'm fed up
Over the weekend you may have seen this picture of Heidi Klum. I've nicked it from the Daily Mail website so you don't have to visit it. What you may not know is that this picture was taken a few days ago and it's only five weeks since Heidi gave birth to a baby son. She's just made a return to the catwalk with Victoria's Secret. This woman is not some early-twenties-something pinging back into shape after her first baby

Dear neighbour
First off, you and your husband seem like nice people and that's reassuring for us after a 'neighbour from hell' experience we had in our previous home. I'm not offended that you never remember my name and simply call me 'neighbour', after all you're very friendly. In turn, I hope you're not offended that I don't appear to 'stop and chat' when I see you, it's only because the conversation can be a little one-sided and it would be half