Going out with the urchins under the pretence that you’re a nice normal family often serves as a startling reminder that the opposite is true.
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Thank God for the amazing individuals convinced that grown-up fun tailored to kids is the future of sane parenting.
Everything about Toconoco is low-key, from its location in laid-back De Beauvoir to its cool, typically Japanese decor.
Sculptural works are displayed on the floor behind foot-high cordons that may as well be labelled ‘baby limbo contest this way’.
With the museum moving to an £83m new home and me giving birth to an 8.3lb baby, I was keen to find out how well we’d gel.
Bab became totally overwhelmed by the audiovisual overflow and proceeded to have a full-on head-banging, floor-licking tantrum.
The Corner House is less a play cafe and more a small, well-planned city in which to play, eat, drink, meet and learn.
What?: I’ve taken Bab to the V&A a few times, with mixed results. There was the time we went for an aimless wander and she got absolutely covered in museum-floor filth, kept trying to prod the priceless artefacts and pissed off a waitress by recarpeting the cafe floor with Petit Filous
Fount is the parental utopia you’ve always dreamed of but never believed could exist because life just isn’t that kind
Older kids can be left under the watchful eye of the playroom supervisor while their parents do their thing
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