Just to keep our hand in this past weekend, we babysat our friends’ wonderful and very precious twin boys. It was mum and dad’s first time away without them. Thankfully they had a great time and so did we. It has been many years since our eldest 2 were baby twins and we did have a renewed appreciation of how tiring it can be – lots of nappies, feeds etc. but the boys were absolutely lovely.

As one of my colleagues says, when promoting the role of men in early years, the question should be what are the benefits for men, not just what are the benefits for children. It really is a privilege to be involved in the lives of children and great fun. 

Produced a new A5 leaflet today on safeguarding children guidance for visitors. I was pleased with the results. Ok, so I pinched most of the contents from our local school but I did adapt it for us. I think Ofsted might like it.

It’s a shorter working week running up to Good Friday. On Wednesday, we are off to Wareham to speak at a CWDC event on the benefits of employing an Early Years Professional, then on Thursday it’s our whole staff Away Day. We are all looking forward to this opportunity to be together and hope it will be another positive experience.  On top of our ‘Love, Laughter and Learning’, we will be considering another ‘L’  – Listening : to children, to parents and to each other. And then in the afternoon we have a surprise in store! I’ll let you know how it goes.