Jamie Day on parenting: welcoming in spring
Seriously on the verge of cabin fever, dad blogger and father of two Jamie Day welcomes his favourite season with open arms
Phew? We made it. Winter is well and truly forgotten, and forgotten it shall remain ? at least until August, when the shops start playing Slade on repeat all over again.
With the arrival of spring, I have a whole new appetite for making the most of these magnificent days ahead with the kids. In fact, after months of spending evenings and weekends cooped up indoors where I?ve mastered the ponytail (yet to conquer plaits), had my nails painted every toxic shade of pink imaginable and pirouetted around the living room as Berkshire?s prima ballerina with my four-year-old daughter Edie, the change in weather and longer days couldn?t be more welcome. The change seems to bring about a reawakening in the kids, too. Edie and her brother Arlo, who?s one, both love to be outside, and finally, without countless pseudo swamps to navigate everywhere we go, they can enjoy the outdoors with a new-found freedom. Instead of getting their natural world fix from books and Andy?s Wild Adventures, they can be outside, smelling and touching* everything they see.
And right now, the possibilities seem endless. Simple pleasures such as eating dinner in the garden make a noticeable difference to all of our moods. The children get excited by creepy crawlies on the table, or look on in amazement as flocks of geese pass loudly over our village. The swings in the park no longer ha...
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