Be brave friends, only a few more weeks (or days if you're in Scotland) before those small people who ate all the crisps will be safely incarcerated in school again. In the meantime, settle down for our regular weekly catchup of the best of the UK's parent bloggers.

Right now the BlogHer conference for women bloggers is happening in New York. Sian from Mummy Tips is there for the UK mummy bloggers so check out her blog for updates. I bet the cakes are bigger (but not better).

This week on ParentDish we raised our eyebrows and said "You sure about that one?" to the news of the pole dancing classes launched for nine year olds.

Elsewhere, trauma for Adventures of an English Mum, who's been dealing with rudeness And another type of rudeness is on the cards for Artistically Nuts, who's got a dilemma involving her lady bits


Me, The Man & The Baby was angered by some unwelcome visitors. Never answer your door on a Sunday morning is the lesson there, I guess.

Mummy Zen thinks this is a good time to step back from online life. Good heavens no, are you mad, woman? What would we do without our imaginary friends from the internets? We would have to talk to the small people about crisps.

And Super Little Men is mourning the end of an era. Aw, never mind. Children do grow up - before you know it they'll be blogging about you.

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