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Waiting for Mum

By 6000 | 6000 | September 23, 2009

Kids go through stages with regard to their relationship with their parents. Sometimes you can see obvious reasons why this might be; for example, when K-pu was born and had to spend a lot of time with Mum (because she’s the one with the boobs), Alex became firmly (often rather too firmly) attached to me. [...]

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Single parent bathing

By 6000 | 6000 | May 29, 2009

And lo, it came to pass that I was left at home with two children to bath and put to bed because Mrs 6k had gone out partying. Which shouldn’t really be a problem, because Mrs 6k has single-handedly bathed and bedded the kids on a number of occasions and is full of helpful hints [...]

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Kids & Money

By 6000 | 6000 | May 9, 2009

Kids are expensive. Your own. To keep and look after, I mean. Obviously, it’s a given that buying a child on the black market costs a bomb. There are officials to bribe, swarthy men in dark suits behind nightclubs to pay and guilty-looking nurses in squalid third world orphanages who set the whole process in motion. Or [...]

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Friday morning

By 6000 | 6000 | March 6, 2009

ADVERT: Don’t forget to nominate 6000 miles… in the 2009 SA Blog Awards. Thank you. They say that Friday is the best day of the week. Of course, “they” say a lot of things which are untrue, poorly thought-out or just plain silly: “This won’t hurt a bit”, “Let’s play cricket in Pakistan” or “Jacob [...]

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Sick Toddler?

By 6000 | 6000 | September 30, 2008

Is your toddler running a high fever? Does he have a history of copious vomiting in these situations? Here’s a comprehensive list of what foodstuffs not to feed him: Cherry jelly I’m sure there are others, but at the mention of that first one, my brain has gone into an immediate and complete automatic shutdown in the interests [...]

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