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The thoughts of Jo Haywood, a 30-something mum.

Jo Haywood

Why do posh kids have bigger hair?
10:09am Monday 12th May 2008
HAVE you noticed how posh kids have bigger hair than ordinary little bods?
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Brown uniforms are just so ugly!
9:39am Monday 5th May 2008
It helps to have a sadistic streak if you're going to design uniforms for a living.
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Striking out
10:45am Monday 28th April 2008
NO one does fury quite so furiously as a nine-year-old boy with a bee in his bonnet (or his baseball cap, depending on what he happens to be wearing that day).

Are we a nation of infomaniacs?
9:34am Monday 21st April 2008
ARE you an infomaniac? If you have just shouted that question across the office at your boss, you've probably just realised that it sounds different when said out loud.

All I want is a second's peace
11:20am Monday 14th April 2008
You've been playing with your kids all day, laughing at their nonsensical jokes ("Why does a cow say moo?"; "Because it rhymes with poo!"), playing endless games of snap (children cheat, get over it) and throwing a ball 47,000 times for them to catch it once followed by loud cheering and an honorary lap of the garden.

A change for the better?
11:47am Monday 7th April 2008
ANYONE who has watched the brilliant new BBC2 drama Mad Men about the goings-on at a Madison Avenue advertising agency in the early days of the 1960s will thank their lucky stars for equality.

Child’s play for young at heart
9:43am Monday 31st March 2008
YOU can glean a lot about people by the way they play with their kids at the park.

Breaking wind is a fresh topic
10:50am Monday 24th March 2008
SOME people are natural silver lining seekers. Give them lemons and they'll make lemonade. Give them food poisoning and they'll make the cardboard vomit catchers doled out in hospital into jaunty little hats to amuse the other patients.

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