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Rex Features As a relatively inexperienced and amateur writer, I was elated to be given the chance by Parentdish to write a regular column. I grabbed that opportunity enthusiastically and began to share my thoughts and observations on living in ... Read more

 

]]>Achtung Babybilingualgoodbyekidslast columnSuze NowakMon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/15/achtung-baby-the-perfect-party-guest/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/15/achtung-baby-the-perfect-party-guest/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/15/achtung-baby-the-perfect-party-guest/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

PA As the New Year's Eve celebrations raged on, my friend Mark remarked that all the necessary elements for the perfect party were clearly evident. Twenty friends who have known each other for around three decades reunited in the UK, hot roast ... Read more

 

]]>embarrassmentEnglishGermankidsnudenuditySuze NowakSun, 15 Jan 2012 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/08/achtung-baby-finding-just-the-right-word/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/08/achtung-baby-finding-just-the-right-word/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/08/achtung-baby-finding-just-the-right-word/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Getty Leaving the table, wails of laughter in my wake, I pondered an irrefutable fact. On becoming a parent, you relinquish any morsel of dignity you may have managed to nurture up until the point of giving birth. As I attempted to ... Read more

 

]]>bilingual childrenbreaking windchild disciplinefartfartinggrandparentsmannersrudeSuze NowakSun, 08 Jan 2012 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/news-and-views/why-i-would-never-post-a-video-of-my-child-on-youtube/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/news-and-views/why-i-would-never-post-a-video-of-my-child-on-youtube/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/news-and-views/why-i-would-never-post-a-video-of-my-child-on-youtube/#comments Filed under: Kids

Rex Features I must admit, having read that some parents are earning thousands of pounds from videos of their kids posted on Youtube, I experienced a fleeting second of temptation. Flipping mentally through the Rolodex in my head, I recalled ... Read more

 

]]>child actorsChild Exploitationchild modellinginternet safetykids on you tubenews-and-viewsyoutubeSuze NowakMon, 26 Dec 2011 09:36:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/25/achtung-baby-the-snow-dance/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/25/achtung-baby-the-snow-dance/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/25/achtung-baby-the-snow-dance/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Rex Features Finally I managed to pacify and convince my daughter that Santa would definitely not be deterred from delivering presents by something so trivial as a lack of snow. Despite assurances (on the condition of good behaviour) that ... Read more

 

]]>blue peterchristmassantasanta claussnowsnowmanweatherwhite christmasSuze NowakSun, 25 Dec 2011 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/18/achtung-baby-chocolate-overload/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/18/achtung-baby-chocolate-overload/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/18/achtung-baby-chocolate-overload/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

PA The German word that encompasses all things tooth-rotting is "Süßigkeiten". One word covers the lot, chocolate, biscuits, lollies and sweets. There is no escaping the deluge of Süßigkeiten at Christmas. I'm fairly ... Read more

 

]]>advent calendarsaquariumsbeaverschocolatechristmas chocolatesGerman biscuitskidssugarsweetsteethtooth decay in childrenSuze NowakSun, 18 Dec 2011 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/11/achtung-baby-a-gigantic-mumfail-pressurising-children/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/11/achtung-baby-a-gigantic-mumfail-pressurising-children/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/11/achtung-baby-a-gigantic-mumfail-pressurising-children/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Rex Features If you've ever made the howling mistake of Googling an affliction you've been suffering from and spent the next week convinced of your imminent demise, you may have some sympathy for my recent mumfail. There are some ... Read more

 

]]>bilingual kidschristmasChristmas listChristmas presents for kidsFather ChristmaskidsmumfailphonesantaunicornsSuze NowakSun, 11 Dec 2011 11:50:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/04/achtung-baby-santas-spies/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/04/achtung-baby-santas-spies/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/12/04/achtung-baby-santas-spies/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

PA I do wonder sometimes whether my daughter navigates her way through life using echo-location. It's the only possible reason I can come up with for her incessant babble. Perhaps if she stops, even for a second, she'll run into a wall. This ... Read more

 

]]>CatsChristmasFather Christmasimaginary friendskidssantaSuze NowakSun, 04 Dec 2011 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/27/achtung-baby-spoiling-a-sick-child/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/27/achtung-baby-spoiling-a-sick-child/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/27/achtung-baby-spoiling-a-sick-child/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Rex Features An ox-like constitution and doubtless a dose of luck facilitate Finje's excellent track record in avoiding the constant onslaught of kindergarten germs. To date, we've successfully dodged three bouts of head lice, a perpetual ... Read more

 

]]>Calpolchildhood illnessescommon coldhead liceill childkidsscarlet feversick childrenSuze NowakSun, 27 Nov 2011 05:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/20/achtung-baby-or-channelling-your-inner-child/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/20/achtung-baby-or-channelling-your-inner-child/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/20/achtung-baby-or-channelling-your-inner-child/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Finje is five. Should she chance upon a muddy puddle she can barely contain her desire to take a running jump with a two-footed landing, sole object to make the biggest splash possible. This she would no doubt get right on with if her miserable ... Read more

 

]]>childrenchristmasinner childkidsmudmumpuddlessnowSuze NowakSun, 20 Nov 2011 05:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/13/achtung-baby-or-christmas-in-a-shoebox/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/13/achtung-baby-or-christmas-in-a-shoebox/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/13/achtung-baby-or-christmas-in-a-shoebox/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

PA Today I uttered words I swore I never would. They haunted me as a child, heard so often their meaning became numbed by repetition; "You madam, have no idea how lucky you are" They were the culmination of an afternoon of squabbles and ... Read more

 

]]>christmasChristmas in a Shoeboxkidsonly childrenOperation Christmas childpoorpovertyspoiledspoiltSuze NowakSun, 13 Nov 2011 06:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/new-and-views/tv-in-my-childs-room-never/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/new-and-views/tv-in-my-childs-room-never/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/new-and-views/tv-in-my-childs-room-never/#comments Filed under: Kids

Rex Features I was nine the day we got our first television. With three whole channels to choose from, I grew up watching Blue Peter, Newsround and of course, classic Play Away with Floella Benjamin who now, over 30 years later, has spoken out ... Read more

 

]]>bedroomBlue PeterchildrenDavid Attenboroughfloella benjaminkidsroomtelevisiontellyTVWinnie the PoohSuze NowakThu, 10 Nov 2011 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/06/achtung-baby-or-turn-that-light-off-polar-bears-are-dying/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/06/achtung-baby-or-turn-that-light-off-polar-bears-are-dying/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/06/achtung-baby-or-turn-that-light-off-polar-bears-are-dying/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Rex Features My father laughs in the face of wind turbines and is a staunch advocate of nuclear power. I am not, but in the spirit of family put this down to generational disparities and an old dog refusing to learn new, safer tricks. In ... Read more

 

]]>blackpool illuminationsenvironmentally friendlysaving the planetturning lights offwind turbinesSuze NowakSun, 06 Nov 2011 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/05/im-a-maths-muppet-how-will-i-help-my-child/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/05/im-a-maths-muppet-how-will-i-help-my-child/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/05/im-a-maths-muppet-how-will-i-help-my-child/#comments Filed under: Primary School

Rex Features When I was 16 I had a Saturday job working at the chemist counter in Boots. It was a job I really wanted but would nevertheless have had to turn down had they not, two weeks previous to my starting, introduced new tills. Until this ... Read more

 

]]>kidsmathsmumparentsschoolteaching mathsSuze NowakSat, 05 Nov 2011 06:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/30/achtung-baby-bavarian-vegetarian/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/30/achtung-baby-bavarian-vegetarian/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/30/achtung-baby-bavarian-vegetarian/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Getty Not a fussy eater, I insist my aversion to peanuts, liver and butter beans, is offset by the ingestion of fried locusts and marinated snake whilst traveling through Thailand. So, not vegetarian either. Not that I haven't considered the ... Read more

 

]]>achtung babybavaria cruiser 55bilingualismBilingualKidskidsvegetarian childrenvegetarianismSuze NowakSun, 30 Oct 2011 06:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/23/achtung-baby-celebrate-bilingual-child-month-not-yet/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/23/achtung-baby-celebrate-bilingual-child-month-not-yet/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/23/achtung-baby-celebrate-bilingual-child-month-not-yet/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

Rex Features If, like me, you had the impression that there is only one event worthy of celebration in Germany in October you are mistaken. It appears that the beer-quaffing, Lederhosen-slapping, Sauerkraut-gorging, heaving-cleavage which ... Read more

 

]]>bilingual childbilingual kidsbilingualismGerman lanuageGermanykidslanguageslearning a languageOktoberfestSuze NowakSun, 23 Oct 2011 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/16/achtung-baby-as-ghoulish-as-you-can-please/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/16/achtung-baby-as-ghoulish-as-you-can-please/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/16/achtung-baby-as-ghoulish-as-you-can-please/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby, Halloween

Gruselig (roughly pronounced grooselig) is a magnificent German word which amalgamates the English creepy, spooky, blood curdling, ghoulish, sinister into one rather wonderful onomatopoeic noun. So fantastically descriptive and fun to say, ... Read more

 

]]>costumesdressing upGermanhalloweenhalloween costumesvampiresSuze NowakSun, 16 Oct 2011 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/16/80s-pop-music-was-my-sex-education/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/16/80s-pop-music-was-my-sex-education/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/16/80s-pop-music-was-my-sex-education/#comments Filed under: Kids

Getty In 1984 I was 14 years old. It was the year Alison Moyet graced our radio stations with Love Resurrection and I loved it. I knew the lyrics off by heart. Microphone (hairbrush, obviously) in hand and desperately and trying to perfect the ... Read more

 

]]>80s music80s pop musicexplicitinnocentnaivenews-and-viewspopsex educationSex education and kidssong lyricsteenSuze NowakSun, 16 Oct 2011 07:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/09/achtung-baby-no-sex-please-were-german/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/09/achtung-baby-no-sex-please-were-german/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/10/09/achtung-baby-no-sex-please-were-german/#comments Filed under: Achtung Baby

PA It was only a question of time. And, a believer in telling children the truth (mostly), I hadn't spent any time fretting over the potential issues which could be raised when Finje eventually reached this particular milestone. That said, ... Read more

 

]]>birds and beesdinosaurgermanysex educationSuze NowakSun, 09 Oct 2011 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.parentdish.co.uk/kids/is-your-child-depressed-or-just-having-a-bad-day/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/kids/is-your-child-depressed-or-just-having-a-bad-day/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/kids/is-your-child-depressed-or-just-having-a-bad-day/#comments Filed under: Advice

Rex Ask any parent and most of us would admit that on any given day, we question ourselves constantly over our parenting decisions and judgments. Are our children, eating enough, eating too much, eating healthily enough, getting enough ... Read more

 

]]>child behaviourchild depressionchildrens sleep problemsdr seusshappinesshappyis your child normalsadSuze NowakSat, 08 Oct 2011 11:00:00 EST