5:00pm Monday 15th March 2010
By Rebecca Cain
WHAT is it with children? Why do they feel the need to stick something small up their nose or lick everything in sight including toilet brushes?
Amersham author Sally Norton looks at these perplexing question in her new book- 101 Things to Do Before You Are Five: The Funny, Bizarre and Downright Yucky Things to Expect from Your Little People.
The book has been written for adults to laugh and/ or cry along with at what their under 5s do to pass your time.
Sally, 45, said: “It is all about the fun and madness you can have if you have any under 5s in your house and all the things they get up to.
“It is almost written from a kid's point of view as a set of instructions.
“For a small child to flush something valuable down the loo or stick something small up their nose.
“Those type of things that kids get up to when they are little. Like when the kid gets into bed with parents and the parents end up hanging on the edge of the bed as the child sprawls out in the middle.
“And the horrible time when they are around four and they realise sausages are made out of dead pig. Before that they seem to have the impression sausages are a gift from pigs.
“And the way they tell your family secrets to the babysitter.”
Sally has also written The Girls’ Book of Glamour and The Girls’ Book 2: How To Be The Best At Everything which were best selling books.
She said her stories are based on her five-year-old daughter, Kate, and friend's children and Godchildren She laughed: “One of my Godson's- whenever he wants a snack he goes to his mum and says: 'I'm hungry.' She suggests fruit and he says, 'No I'm biscuity hungry.'
“I think it would be a great gift for any mother or father as I think most people with children can relate to it- including grandchildren.
“A lot of things are the things kids have always done and always will.”
101 Things To Do Before You're Five is published by Penguin and on general release. RRP £9.99.
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