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Baby it's cold outside...

In their latest blogpost Our Kent Family have put their outdoor adventures on hold, admitted defeat and come inside for some theatre fun.

One down, five to go!

Our Kent Family share the first week of their school summer break including a very grown-up outing and some time with daddy daycare.

Dads take charge for the day

With the wives away, two dads abandon their desks for a day for the kiddie care frontline and make some schoolboy errors while having some fun!

The post-rave generation: Our Kent Family goes clubbing

Our Kent Family grabbed their glowsticks and joined the crew of Big Fish Little Fish at Margate's Dreamland.

Blogpost: Space camp, solar systems and a tweet from Tim

When your four-year-old catches the space bug there is only one man to turn to.

Pregnant and feeling the heat? Here's how to cope

The Charlie O'Brien blog: Paddling pools, water beads and frozen yogurt bark

The Charlie O'Brien Blog: Parenting second time around

The mistakes I won't be making with my new baby - and some of the things I will be doing again

Could I give birth at home?

Our blogger Charlie is considering a home birth. Have you an experience you could share?

Up up and away...

Heading off on holiday with toddlers? Charlie shares her top tips for travel in this week's blog

It's always time for tea...

Our Kent Family take tea with Alice and the Hatter at Kent's newest themed cafe...

Explaining the horrors of terrorism to our children

The Charlie O'Brien blog: Talking to the kids about terrorism is a horrible, grim job, but a necessary one in our modern world

The Charlie O'Brien blog: A labour of love

Watch my husband roll around in agony as he discovers the pain of childbirth live online

Gino D'Acampo gives me belly ache

The Charlie O'Brien Blog: Why the pious celebrity chef has pushed me - and lots more mums - to boiling point

The Charlie O'Brien blog and gender reveal video

Plus 10 reason why I'm so excited to be having a...

Why I won't feel guilty about my son's screen time

The Charlie O'Brien blog: Digital heroin? I don't think so - TVs and iPads are just an inescapable reality of modern childhood

Why I found out the sex of my new baby

Charlie O'Brien blog: Gender disappointment is one thing but gender selection is quite another

Once upon a time...

New blogpost: Our Kent Family take in a tale in the Medieval Story Garden at the Canterbury Tales.

Why I opted for Down’s Syndrome screening

The Charlie O'Brien blog: The moral dilemmas of taking the Harmony Test during pregnancy

Jobs for the ... kids?

Our Kent Family find out what it's like when the kids are in charge during a visit to Kidzania in their latest blogpost.

The perfect place for a role-play

Charlie and Noah have visited Little Street - Kent's newest indoor play centre. What did they think?

When the children took a walk through a very big wood...

In their latest adventure, bloggers Our Kent Family go in search of Kent's interactive Gruffalo trail...

I'm so happy that I'm pregnant

The Charlie O'Brien blog: Star jumps, chocolate and one of the best days ever

Why can't Katie Price have as many kids as she wants?

Charlie O'Brien Blog: What's it got to do with you? Just let her raise her family as she sees fit

It's time to celebrate being a 'mundane' mum

The Charlie O'Brien blog: Why motherhood is the most challenging job we’ll ever do

Embracing your own parenting choices

In her latest blog post Charlie talks about parents on the internet who choose to comment on the choices of others.

Patronising, sexist, outdated and annoying

The Charlie O'Brien Blog: The 50 Things list that has left me (and most other women) seething

Where to take a two-year-old this spring

The Charlie O'Brien blog: From Bedgebury to Botany Bay, Dreamland to Drayton Manor

Date nights for parents: Are they really worth it?

Charlie O'Brien blog: Why it's way too easy to just rely on the grandparents every time you want to go out

Why I had to ditch the childcare guilt

The Charlie O'Brien blog: How childcare has allowed me to breathe (and work from home properly) again

Why I'm breaking every rule in the book

The Charlie O'Brien blog: You may think I'm wrong but my two-year-old is back sleeping in our bed

Trying not to fuss over fussy eating

In her latest blog post Charlie shares her top tips for managing fussy eaters and how she approaches meals with son Noah.

The highs and lows of choosing childcare

The Charlie O'Brien blog: Our unhappy experience at nursery and picking the right childminder

If you go down to the woods...choose this one

Bear hunts, broomsticks and the hazy days of winter. Our Kent Family share their latest discovery in their first blogpost for 2017.

Five things I learned about being a mum in 2016

My Kent Family blogger Charlie O'Brien reflects on the last 12 months of parenting

Why I’m dreading my child's two-year check

Charlie O'Brien blog: I've a happy, growing son but the looming one to one with the health visitor isn't what the doctor ordered

The panto that saved Christmas

Our Kent Family has been to meet Dick Whittington at the Marlowe. But did they like it? Oh yes they did!

Hanging on in there...

Blogger Charlie O'Brien shares the good and bad parenting days of her week.

Is it time to say no to the pressure of Christmas?

Charlie O'Brien blog: Why this year's Christmas countdown is leaving me cold

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