Yep, it’s nothing to do with how you look in bikini (though by the way, you’re gorgeous – trust us.) As the kids count down to the holidays starting, are you feeling full of delight at the thought of the long summer stretching ahead, filled with stimulating and bonding new experiences and the day-in, day-out company of your little treasures?
Three year olds can be brilliant fun, but they can also be – how can we put it – a handful. Sometimes it might feel as if the other parents of ‘threenagers’ are acing it, but if their social media feeds are a tumble of cherubic grins, #blessed baking sessions and play that’s boisterous – but not too boisterous – in a National Trust maintained woodland paradise, they’re only telling half the story.
When I was pregnant I remember people saying to me all the time “Enjoy the journey, it’s going to go so fast!” Being very pregnant and uncomfortable, I was wishing time away so I could meet this little person in my belly. Fast-forward four years and here we are and I totally get what all these wise people really meant.
