chantelle

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As I said earlier, we put Stillness first, Dalmain second and got the offer from Dalmain. You can email Lewisham admissions with your address and they will tell you exactly how far away you are. The nurseries don't operate on the same basis - so a neighbour of mine has her son at Stillness nursery although I'm not sure she's aware how little chance he has of getting into reception there.

We moved to HOP two years ago, with our hearts set on Stillness. Turned out we were something like 27m too far away at 503m for 2012 intake. We were eighth on the first round list but never got an offer. But even before that we'd been to Dalmain (which we are closer to, at around 330m) and really liked what we saw. Now we are 100% happy with Dalmain, and it is where most of the kids on our side of HOP seem to go. HOP in general is fantastic, and the houses are generally bigger and cheaper than SE15/SE22.

Zany, that's awful, I would have said fine, take him and you can have a sixth then if you're such a perfect mum!

just came back to thread and happy to see you had some success with my tip!

I've been to a bunch of 5th bday parties in the past few months and I think the most popular one was very simple - church hall with a hired bouncy castle and some organised games. Rhubarb & Custard is also nice, I haven't been to a party there but have been for crafts sessions.

my son said those exact words "i want to make you dead" several months ago and I was pretty shocked! It only happened the one time. Your technique around hitting sounds interesting and like a good way to defuse the situation. I have had some success saying - oh are you going to hit mummy? is that what you want to do? - to get him to think about what's playing out and get his feelings back under control.

I got great relief from an osteopath. The physio at Kings was really no help at all, but everyone is different it seems. I also had to wait 16 weeks for the Kings appointment, after requesting it at 14 weeks pg!

I think a quality second hand car seat is probably a better option than the super cheap ones, assuming you trust the chances of someone selling a damaged one are extremely slim. I've gotten one on this forum, and another from a work colleague.

God, I totally remember this phase of being held hostage, and it still goes on sometimes at age 4. I don't really have any advice, I would stay as long as I could and then leave till tears. I think it was just easiest to stay until they're asleep because going back two or three times would take a lot longer.

However if you want to take up free 15 hours preschool from 3, you are meant to apply when they are two. That placement has no bearing though on getting a reception place.

We saw Tony Jacob at Blackheath Hospital for my son's hearing problem and snoring. Was quickly sorted with adenoid surgery and grommets.

Wow, so many American moms! It was great to coincidentally stumble on this get together today and hope there will be another soon. -Margot

My two are the same ages (boy turning four in two weeks, girl 7 months). Let me know if you all are planning any activities!

i don't know that company but I pay something like ?125/year to PAYE for Nannies. I think there are just a couple of really overpriced services out there and others are competing (rightly) on price. What they do is really pretty basic though IMO it's money well spent not to do it myself.