Running space and crowd control alone are enough to make this museum toddler-friendly – screw the potentially terrifying subject matter.
South London
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.
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.
Stephanie Patel is currently on maternity leave from her job as a GP. She has lived in Parsons Green/Fulham for 15 months and has a nine-month-old daughter called Lily.
Rebecca Connoll has lived in Victoria for four years and has a two-year-old son called Harvey. Before becoming a mum she worked as an early-years teaching assistant at an independent school.
There’s a romantic urban-decay thing going on; its withered beauty making it much more interesting than your average green space.
Hannah Mearns is a hypnobirthing teacher and is studying to be a nutritional therapist. She has lived in Forest Hill on and off for 25 years and is mum to Zoe, 18 months.
Lianne Tangco is a university Dyslexia Adviser. She has lived in Croydon for five years and has a 13-month-old son called Peadar.
If doing something other than watching Gilmore Girls in your pyjamas can help you feel something approaching normal it’s worth the sweat and tears.
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