sugar – Triple Trouble Tribe

Bribery and Bitter Lemons

I gave all three children a cookie today. Nothing very unusual about that. Except that it was 7.55am. It was a bribe. I was bribing them out of the house to go to school. When that only partially worked, I gave them another cookie each. Before I knew it, I had three girls, in uniform,Continue reading “Bribery and Bitter Lemons”

Oh sugar!

In my crusade against sugar, today I instigated a ‘new deal’. Anna has a bowl of porridge for breakfast every morning, and she likes to add sugar on the top. I can’t remember the origin of this arrangement. A good guess is that I suggested it to solve one problem – like a refusal toContinue reading “Oh sugar!”