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  Figuring Out Fatherhood: 5 things you will see at every nativity play

  Dec 13th, 2012

  "So, what is your son in the nativity play?" asks an inquisitive parent, sidling up to you in the...

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  The Primary Days: The dreaded Christmas nativity

  My good friend Jane recently told me that she had been 'genuinely torn' by the choice between...

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  Figuring Out Fatherhood: Little Horrors

  "Can we go trick or treating this year, Daddy?" says my five-year-old son, Isaac. My heart sinks....

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  Dressing babies as Halloween pumpkins and baby spiders is bad for them, says charity

  Oct 31st, 2012

  Dressing babies up in fancy dress costumes for Halloween has come under attack by children’s...

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  Surviving Teenagers: It's Halloween

  It’s Halloween. Oh, joy. Some teenagers might be tucked up with hot chocolate and bedsocks. But...

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  Kids banned from taking broomsticks to Halloween disco over health and safety fears

  Oct 25th, 2012

  Children were banned from taking sharp plastic props, including toy broomsticks and scythes to a...

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  Trick or treat? Argh, not again!

  Oct 17th, 2012

  Last Halloween my three-year-old watched as these spookily clad kids just rocked up (mostly with a...

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  Should you let children wear whatever they like?

  Every time that five year-old Suri Cruise steps out in dancing shoes and red lipstick her mum,...

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  No more nativity plays (sob!): The lament of the parent with older children

  You know you're getting old when as a parent you don't have any Christmas nativity plays to attend....

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