Joanne Finney has lived in Barnes and East Sheen for about 10 years. She works as a journalist on women’s magazines and has a 16-month-old son called Kit.
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Jam Circus might sound vaguely menstrual, but this Brockley favourite is rather more welcome than a visit from Aunt Flo.
It’s easy to fret that your tiny terrors are disturbing the peace as they dash from room to room, their shrieks bouncing off the walls.
Running space and crowd control alone are enough to make this museum toddler-friendly – screw the potentially terrifying subject matter.
The kids’ play area, despite being popularly referred to as ‘soft play’ is in fact anything but, consisting of a brightly painted half-pipe situation and a few concrete shapes.
It’s really hard to concentrate when you have a toddler hanging from your sleeve demanding a gingerbread man.
Stay on the sunny side up this Easter with toddler-friendly art installations, interactive baby theatre and egg-citing family festivals.
Sofie Eliasson-Brown moved to West Greenwich last summer, having spent a couple of years in San Francisco and many in East London before that. She has an 18-month old son called Viggo and another baby boy due in July.
Chloe George runs Stretched Mums Yoga in Crystal Palace, where she lives with her partner Adam and their two-year-old daughter Rosa. As well as teaching yoga, she’s a Content Manager at Teenage Cancer Trust.
I’d always imagined Liberty’s kidswear department as a land of heirloom Christening gowns and smocked floral frocks with matching knickers.
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