Alice and I made some play dough about a month ago. She sat on my "big" chair, while I had to sit on her wee chair!!! She decided that she needed to bake the play dough in her oven.
Alice frequently has tea parties, normally she has a whole host of her "best friends" in a circle on the floor.
As you will know (if you follow the blog) Fraser bear is, of course, her bestest friend.
Alice can now get into her car seat on her own (can't strap herself in, thankfully), however, she did need to stand on the back seat beside her car seat and then climb in. She did this whether her shoes were muddy or not. So it was time we gave the car a good clean. Alice really enjoyed it, particularly when it came to squeezing the water over Stuart and me.
There are websites out there to teach children how to use a mouse on the computer. You start very basically and just learn to move the mouse onto things. Then moving the mouse and clicking etc. Alice enjoyed playing this game and there were different varieties of it too. We have set up a different area of the computer for Alice. So when she clicks on things, she can't change any settings or lose photographs etc. Of course, now that she knows how to use the mouse, I watched her change user the other week!!!! So, I think the next stage is putting a password on ours, so she can't get into it. Really didn't think we would have to do that this early!!!!!!
Alice and I made some play dough about a month ago. She sat on my "big" chair, while I had to sit on her wee chair!!! She decided that she needed to bake the play dough in her oven.
Alice frequently has tea parties, normally she has a whole host of her "best friends" in a circle on the floor.
As you will know (if you follow the blog) Fraser bear is, of course, her bestest friend.
Alice can now get into her car seat on her own (can't strap herself in, thankfully), however, she did need to stand on the back seat beside her car seat and then climb in. She did this whether her shoes were muddy or not. So it was time we gave the car a good clean. Alice really enjoyed it, particularly when it came to squeezing the water over Stuart and me.
There are websites out there to teach children how to use a mouse on the computer. You start very basically and just learn to move the mouse onto things. Then moving the mouse and clicking etc. Alice enjoyed playing this game and there were different varieties of it too. We have set up a different area of the computer for Alice. So when she clicks on things, she can't change any settings or lose photographs etc. Of course, now that she knows how to use the mouse, I watched her change user the other week!!!! So, I think the next stage is putting a password on ours, so she can't get into it. Really didn't think we would have to do that this early!!!!!!
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That was lovely Pauline, catching up with all Alice's progress. She is doing so well and looks so happy.
Aw thanks Charlene. Welcome back to the blog!!!
Yes, she's really growing up, amazing to think in a couple of days she will be 3!
We just posted at the same time!
How funny Lisa. I know I can't believe she's going to be three on Tuesday.
Sorry I thought it was tomorrow because of her party. Have a great day, hope she loves her camera.
No probs. I'm sure she will really enjoy taking lots of pics with it.
Child labour Pauline . . . tut tut tut!!!!:-)
Baking like her mummy, computer geek like her daddy and no doubt in two years she'll even be teaching Stuart things about the computer!
Poor wee thing isn't going to know which way to turn. However, I agree that before too long she'll be teaching Stuart all he needs to know about the computer.
She might as well get used to doing chores as young as possible, because one day she'll be doing them for pocket money. About £1 that's the going rate these days isn't it??!!!!
Pauline, I meant to say I love that smile of Alice's in the first picture - it's just so sweet.
Awww, thank you again Rhoda!!!
Just catching up in here - been a busy few days!!! Love the pictures of Alice! I havent seen the video yet as Leah is sleeping on the other side of me and I have no earphones, and she wakes easily, so I will watch it tomorrow...by now the birthday party will be over - hope you have had a great afternoon:-)
£1 Pauline??!! Oh boy do will you have a rude awakening ha ha!! Only joking, Connor gets £5 a week pocket money, his friend gets £20!! Although a lot of the time Connor gets more if they are going into town, cinema etc because a fiver wouldnt cover it all including food and bus fares. Its so expensive to keep a teenager!
Laura, thanks Alice had a lovely party. I'll post pictures at some point later in the week.
Lisa, £20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No way. That is a disgusting amount to give your children at the age of 12/13. Obviously, if they're going out then that is different. Finding the right balance to teach them good money skills is so difficult. Financial independence is such an important life skill.
I know £20 is awful, and its bad too for the friends that dont get nearly half that. Every weekend they want to go to loads of places, into town for a Starbucks, ice skating, cinema, swimming etc and I have to say no to a lot of it.
Here's an alternative view, which some of my friends have done. They give their children more than £20 per week, not exactly sure how much. But here's the rub, out of that the child has to pay EVERYTHING - all their clothes, their bus fares, their lunches, their treats, their friend's birthday presents, their phones, anything that they need for school. The only exceptions are school uniforms and holidays.
If the child runs out of money before the end of the month - tough - there is no top up.
They probably started this around about 13/14, set up a bank account for the child and a standing order into it.
Personally I think that has a lot commending it. One of my friends did it, but the problem she has is she does top it up, that I think defeats the purpose. The truly successful ones are those who have worked out a fair amount and stuck to it. By the time their child has gone to Uni they are totally aware of how to budget and have found it easy to manage through Uni, without coming back to their parents to be bailed out.
I agree with you Rhoda. We've kind of talked about going down that route, because I don't want her to keep having to run back to us to bail her out all the time, but learn how to look after her own money. We would also link it to chores. So she has to do certain things to get the pocket money.
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