I had another thought about children the other day. I wondered if the more children there are in a family, the more confident they are. After all the more siblings they have to compete with the more they have to stand up for themselves. Daughter is extremely extrovert and confident and the Baby is showing signs of being much the same, though I know it's early days. Older Son is somewhat more sensitive and quieter and could do with learning to stand up for himself a bit more. Obviously a lot of it's down to character, but if Older Son had been an only child perhaps learning to stand up for himself would be a lot harder, learnt only via the school playground? Who knows: you can never really say as it's difficult to separate character from environment or nature from nurture anyway.
Meanwhile I have a blog to recommend to you all, which promises to be quite funny:
http://handmadefromtheheart666.blogspot.com/ - one woman's search for her Mr Darcey. And for any woman who moved somewhere relatively rural and remote for her husband's career,
http://www.wifeinthenorth.blogspot.com/ is to be recommended: especially the book. And as I can't think how else to finish, at least not in a punchy conclusive style, I shall leave you with a photograph from my 8-mile run round Loch Muick (yes, the one which resulted in such stiff legs that I slid down the stairs while telling Daughter to put her pants on). This is near the beginning of the run when the top of the Loch, the halfway point, is still ahead of you.
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