Jennifer Barton
Columnist
Jennifer is a freelance writer based in London and originally from New York. She's mum to Diana and chronicles their life together in Toddler Tales (for the first year of her adventures with baby D, see The Newborn Diaries). Jennifer has also written on parenting and childbirth topics for U.S. websites Parents.com and Mothering.com and is a regular contributor to MyDaily.co.uk.
Toddler Tales: The escape artist
As a (slightly bedraggled) mother who spends her days chasing a toddler who's climbing, running, jumping, walking and stomping through her newly discovered world, I'll admit that I take comfort in the moments when D is contained.
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Toddler Tales: Mile-high tantrums
Our toddler tales columnist recently took her active toddler on a plane, and found it was much more difficult that flying with a sleepy baby
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Toddler Tales: Magic words
Diana, being the child of a New Yorker, is in possession of an above-average amount of natural savviness. Or so I like to think. Whether out of necessity or simply to sleaze a few more smiles and rounds of applause out of people, she's recently decided that looking cute is only part of a toddler's appeal, and that saying cute things is even better.
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Toddler Tales: Having a ball
Diana has more in common with David Beckham than a similar hairdo and penchant for bulldogs: she loves to play ball.
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Toddler Tales: Mum's the word
I've been feeling rather smug lately. Diana, having mastered the word "Ma" several weeks ago, has since started saying "Mama," "Mummy," and even "Mommy" (my American influence still, occasionally, prevails).
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