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Weeks pass by without pen to paper, either because I'm too busy (even to do a wee sometimes) or I am tired, uninspired and have a touch of the old writer's block. Then I get a hundred ideas of what I want to rant about, share or express. This blog is about what is going on in my head right now.

3 YEAR OLD BULLIES:

There are two "dominant" characters that I aware of at Charlotte's nursery. One of her little boyfriends is getting pushed around by another boy. His mother tells her son to push the boy back, I can see her point. Boys need to be tough and to be able to fight their own battles. We tell Charlotte never to hit or push anyone. She is upset as says that another girl hits her and pushes her. This could be an attention seeking tale. The nursery workers say there is a little girl that is a bit bossy towards the other children. I never thought that it would upset me so much. Ben told me off for teaching Charlotte to be a bitch as I tell her to say "whatever" or "talk to the hand" but mostly I say to walk away from it and play with other friends; to concentrate on the nice children. It is a shock that bullying starts at such a young age. Though if I analyse this it is human nature. Wild animals kill each other. At 3 do kids know right from wrong? Probably not but the parents and grown ups do. Now is the time to teach our children to be kind and giving little beings.

MENOPAUSE STUFF

Two of my friends are getting night sweats and their periods have stopped. Starting the flipping things at age 11 was crappy but exciting too. I became a woman. When the time comes for me for them to stop, I will feel sad. It will mark the end of an era.

MOBILE MADNESS

This is something that I come up against working in recruitment. HR Managers complain about it fashionably. Why do young people of today have a crazy obsession with their phones? Many are glued to the bloody things. When I started work and to this very day,  I arrive at my desk miles before 9am, take a sort lunch break and rarely take a personal telephone call. That was so taboo. I know and love dearly a young person who checks her phone during zumba and even doing 90  in the fast lane of the M25!!

DEATH BECOMES HER

At 3, I have already had conversations with Charlotte about the birds and the bees. She knows that once upon a time she was a twinkle in my eye, then a bump in my belly and that she was made because Mummy and Daddy love each other. Well, she does ask where she comes from.  I was thrown when she asked if we will die, what happens when we die and then told me that she died when she used to be a big girl and then acted it out (she dropped her head and pretended to be asleep). Eek!! I thought she was an old soul and had been here before, but that kind of freaked me out.