Harry's Blog

The Naughty Step is something many of us young parents have come to know through the show Supernanny and something many of us use too.
We've been pretty sparing with it until recently, but now the twins are old enough to be naughty it's started getting some use.

However it's clearly had an influence on our daughter. She's only 21 months old but seems to think she's the family's second mummy. Daughter will tend to boss her twin brother around, fetch and carry stuff needed for nappy changing and helps a lot when tidying up.

Yesterday though she rather excelled herself. She was playing with Baby, her favourite doll. All of a sudden she exclaimed "Step" crossly and took baby off and put her on the step.

She came back into the room without baby and wifey asked her, "has baby been naughty?" Daughter answered "yes". She waited a while then collected her plastic child from the step, cuddling it and patting it on the back as she returned to the lounge.

Bless her.

Today marks a watershed in my life as a parent. For the first time I've taken a pair of scissors to our son's hair. His beautiful curly locks are no more. And while I've done a decent job of his first haircut (if you don't look at the back of his head) it's quite a sad day.

My good lady wife is already sad that our little munchkin's curls have gone and she's not even seen my efforts yet - the twins are having their afternoon nap.