Comments on: whisper http://www.petiteanglaise.com/2008/10/08/whisper/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:20:08 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Pauline http://www.petiteanglaise.com/2008/10/08/whisper/#comment-30787 Pauline Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:24:16 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/?p=1051#comment-30787 @ 79 I came come from a generation where the traditional Sunday bath ‘only once a week’ was perfectly normal. Am I the only one to find that NOT shocking. Most people don’t stink to the point where they really need to shower/bath everyday. In fact my son sometimes goes to school far less than 100% clean and would be happy to go 2 Sundays without a bath if I didn't threaten to beat around the ears with a wooden spoon/kidnap his Nintendo or worse. Maybe I should call the authorities myself. Being beaten by her father well that's of course another story. . . . @ 79 I came come from a generation where the traditional Sunday bath ‘only once a week’ was perfectly normal. Am I the only one to find that NOT shocking. Most people don’t stink to the point where they really need to shower/bath everyday.

In fact my son sometimes goes to school far less than 100% clean and would be happy to go 2 Sundays without a bath if I didn’t threaten to beat around the ears with a wooden spoon/kidnap his Nintendo or worse. Maybe I should call the authorities myself.

Being beaten by her father well that’s of course another story. . . .

]]> By: petite http://www.petiteanglaise.com/2008/10/08/whisper/#comment-30786 petite Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:52:06 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/?p=1051#comment-30786 Ten days from my first draft deadline (Oct 29th) and I'm keeping my head down and workworkworking ... Just to let you know that I'm having a huge problem with comment spam right now and I hope no genuine comments have been deleted along with the 240 I just went through. Apologies if they have. Ten days from my first draft deadline (Oct 29th) and I’m keeping my head down and workworkworking …

Just to let you know that I’m having a huge problem with comment spam right now and I hope no genuine comments have been deleted along with the 240 I just went through. Apologies if they have.

]]> By: Lauren http://www.petiteanglaise.com/2008/10/08/whisper/#comment-30523 Lauren Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:21:15 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/?p=1051#comment-30523 @72 - Scribbles, as a teacher in London, I can categorically say that a vast amount of parents of school age children need help in raising their children. I teach yr 2, and every day see children arriving at school in clothes still covered in yesterdays or the day before's grime. Just today, I had to ask a little girl to ask her mother to wash her hair as it was filthy. The little girl replied, 'but I have my bath on Sundays'. When I queried her, she told me that yes, she only bathes once a week. This is the same little girl who I have had to report to child protection as she was being beaten by her father, and the mother kept letting him back. So while you may see teachers, doctors, whoever - as 'interfering', we are simply doing for children what many parents aren't, and what the poor little ones can't do for themselves. @72 – Scribbles, as a teacher in London, I can categorically say that a vast amount of parents of school age children need help in raising their children.
I teach yr 2, and every day see children arriving at school in clothes still covered in yesterdays or the day before’s grime. Just today, I had to ask a little girl to ask her mother to wash her hair as it was filthy. The little girl replied, ‘but I have my bath on Sundays’. When I queried her, she told me that yes, she only bathes once a week. This is the same little girl who I have had to report to child protection as she was being beaten by her father, and the mother kept letting him back.
So while you may see teachers, doctors, whoever – as ‘interfering’, we are simply doing for children what many parents aren’t, and what the poor little ones can’t do for themselves.

]]> By: zosia http://www.petiteanglaise.com/2008/10/08/whisper/#comment-30490 zosia Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:08:55 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/?p=1051#comment-30490 Awww Petite, don't worry at all! Number 1. It's good for Tadpole's immune system if she's not scrubbed up and germ free all the time. Bring on the muddy hands, bunged knees and weird ear obstructions. Number 2. Even now, I find it hard to find a decent, non judgmental doctor. I recall being patronised at 16 for being a virgin! No joke, she thought I was in some religious sect. I was mortified that I had to justify to her why I wasn't dropping my underwear at the mere sight of men. A good doctor is one who doesn't freak out more than the mother. After all, you'd know the best if something wasn't quite right! And that's my two cents ;) Hope you're well! Awww Petite, don’t worry at all!
Number 1. It’s good for Tadpole’s immune system if she’s not scrubbed up and germ free all the time. Bring on the muddy hands, bunged knees and weird ear obstructions.
Number 2. Even now, I find it hard to find a decent, non judgmental doctor. I recall being patronised at 16 for being a virgin! No joke, she thought I was in some religious sect. I was mortified that I had to justify to her why I wasn’t dropping my underwear at the mere sight of men.
A good doctor is one who doesn’t freak out more than the mother. After all, you’d know the best if something wasn’t quite right!

And that’s my two cents ;)
Hope you’re well!

]]> By: happyforyou http://www.petiteanglaise.com/2008/10/08/whisper/#comment-30484 happyforyou Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:17:24 +0000 http://www.petiteanglaise.com/?p=1051#comment-30484 Could have been worse, petite! You could have lost or mislaid the carnet de santé, I imagine it happens all the time! :) Could have been worse, petite! You could have lost or mislaid the carnet de santé, I imagine it happens all the time! :)

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