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• drip

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:43 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Misc

  Tadpole scowls at me across the dinner table. She hasn’t touched her food, despite the fact that I let her choose the dinner menu. Instead she pushes it around her plate listlessly, scattering baby peas and grains of rice onto the tabletop. Every few seconds, it seems, I have to ask her [...]

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• red

  Published: September 17, 2007, 6:31 am

  Tags: Tadpole Says, Tadpole Rearing

  Tadpole and I are making our way home from “daddy’s house”. We make excruciatingly slow progress, as she insists on pulling her Miffy wheelie weekend bag along herself rather than letting me carry it. My eyes are riveted on the pavement ahead so that I can give advance warning should we encounter anything [...]

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• zizi

  Published: September 24, 2007, 4:31 am

  Tags: Tadpole Says, Tadpole Rearing

  from Mr Frog to    Petite Anglaise date 19 Sep 2007 21:16 subject Quote of the Day “Aujourd’hui dans la cour de r cr ation Matthias il nous a montr son zizi…. C’ tait tr s rigolo.” I chuckle aloud, paste the quote into my ongoing MSN chat with the Boy (his response: “let’s hope

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• abduction

  Published: October 16, 2007, 4:47 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing

  One of the reasons I have been feeling low since the school year kicked off in September (and yes, I realise this has had some incidence on the frequency of posting here at petite anglaise) was that for a few excruciating weeks, I became increasingly convinced that my daughter had been abducted by aliens. Gone was [...]

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• princess shoes

  Published: November 6, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Tadpole Says, On The Road

  It is a week in which I’ve already made two Paris-London-Paris trips on the Eurostar, complete with identical on-board meals of hachis parmentier and a very bland slice of bakewell tart on both Sunday and Wednesday evenings, and adjusted my watch five times (albeit a little slow on the uptake the day that daylight saving [...]

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• amoureux

  Published: November 15, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Tadpole Says, Misc

  say that Tadpole rarely shares insights about her secret life in the moyenne section of our local maternelle would be something of an understatement. Invariably, on the way home from school, we have a conversation which goes something like this. Me: “So, what did you do today?” Tadpole: “Just some things.” Me:

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• secret

  Published: February 18, 2008, 4:46 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing

  princess dress,” Tadpole has been telling everyone who will listen. “And a tiara. And when mummy gets little bit busy, I’m going to help with carrying the flowers…” Tadpole’s Disney Princess phase has lasted upwards of a year now, and shows no sign of abating. Given every self-respecting princess

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• permission

  Published: February 22, 2008, 4:15 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing, Mills Boon

  The Boy and Tadpole return from their pilgrimage to McDonalds. The Boy is looking disproportionately pleased with himself, far more so than the feat of having hunted and gathered a happy meal and a couple of burgers would usually warrant. “What have you two been up to?” I ask, suspiciously, as I unpack Tadpole’s chicken

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• special k

  Published: March 31, 2008, 4:22 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing

  says Tadpole, her voice a half-yawn. This would be true if her bed wasn’t an extra short lit volutif from Ikea, which I really should lengthen one day soon, as Tadpole is tall and willowly. My (shorter, stumpier - do I sound jealous yet?) legs are currently bent at the knee, so even if she is lying in a sort of

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• chouette hibou

  Published: April 16, 2008, 9:21 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing

  suspect the inspiration for Tadpole’s picture came from the fact we are currently reading about Plop, the Owl who was Afraid of the Dark, at bedtimes, which is bringing back all sorts of lovely memories of reading the same to my baby sister, many years ago. But it’s the other, cartoon-like bird on Tadpole’s picture that amused

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• moon

  Published: May 15, 2008, 4:36 am

  Tags: Tadpole Rearing

  me to do it!’ says Tadpole, scowling. ‘And then I did get into trouble, and not her. It’s not fair.’ Tadpole stands her ground with me (and the other adults in her life) all the time, but I’ve noticed her behaviour in the presence of her peers is very different. She lives in a cruel world where a classmate

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