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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is your child asking to play online games like Roblox? Struggling with how to set fair boundaries with your child’s gaming? Perhaps you want to learn a bit more about their world without actually playing? I got you. I guarantee you’ll learn something in just 20 mins 🤓 youtu.be/NjQOeSmHDBE?...

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Mum, can I play Roblox? Navigating online gaming safety for parents and caregivers - EMF 2026

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cats pandiculate (stretch and relax muscles) after a traumatic experience. Humans must do something similar with art - here is one of my children’s painting when worried about their sibling this morning. I’m grateful for all the carers of children who lovingly facilitate artistic expression…

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/08/2026

(Cw:suicide) At the risk of making assumptions here, people turn towards suicide when they don’t see another way out. And there’s always another path but I cannot blame him for not seeing it because they have been fucking relentless and showed no signs of stopping their harassment. Mercy.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For anyone who knows parents navigating online gaming and digital boundaries this summer holiday, please do share this talk I gave last month: ‘Mum, can I play Roblox? Navigating online gaming safety for parents and caregivers’ streaming.media.ccc.de/emf2026/reli...

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Relive: Mum, can I play Roblox? Navigating online gaming safety for parents and caregivers – Electromagnetic Field 2026 Streaming

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Duty free champagne + St Germain by the half pint = 👌 boating mood.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Kids are the best. Quote of the day: I either want to work at Lidl or be a vet when I get older’ 😅

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This place is anonymous enough to say… I reported a man who sexually abused me as a child to the police yesterday. All the feelings - so much guilt towards him. Anxiety - did I just make it all up? Will I be told I’m a liar? The only reason I did it is that I believe he still works with children.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s fucking weird seeing the right wing media saying French police are letting migrant boats leave when yesterday I saw French warships return what I’m pretty sure must have been a migrant boat. Don’t listen to all you read in the newspapers, folks.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When you’re on holiday and to stave off a tantrum from your four year old you buy him horse meat for dinner… His verdict: it’s delicious. 🤷‍♀️

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Looking forward to when my daughter grows up and I can remind her of today, when I took her a Louboutin shop in Paris and her only comment was ‘I don’t know why people spend thousands of pounds on shoes when these look just like ones you get in a charity shop for a pound’ 💀

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

1997 issues of Wired hit different… 😳

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

‘… Jules Rimet still gleaming’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️🦁🦁🦁

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thought I booked an emergency passport appointment today, turns out it’s next Monday 🤦‍♀️ so I get a whole day in London today! But I’m bringing a child so it’ll be more Imperial War Museum than nice shoe shops 😂

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For all those who pray, please keep in mind my mum and the community around Los Gallardos who are experiencing a deadly fire. She is currently okay but I can watch the fire spread in real time on Google Maps which is helping my anxiety approximately zero 😭

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My new definition of hell is spending a heatwave in a packed school hall of parents watching my child play a character based on Priti Patel.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Riding out a heatwave in long sleeved pyjamas under a padded, synthetic, superhero costume while riding a bike is a bold choice. #toddlers

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Today… Got my daughter finally referred to CAMHS, got a mental health nurse appointment and my own GP appointment, everything feels kinda under control and then … This is my mum’s windscreen. I think she’s okay but she’s in hospital now.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I showed my daughter the gallery of normal labia (all ages, skin colours, hair colours etc) online and I wanted to find similar for my son but there’s no gallery of normal penises online… This seems like a huge oversight? And I suppose I’m asking if any other parents would like there to be one?

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Eldest back from year 6 residential 😍 Made a giant sticky toffee pudding to celebrate 😋

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Painted myself a useful swift vs swallow vs martin identifier. It’s good to get very far outside of your comfort zone at times 🫟🎨

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

‘Mum, what does chicken cocks feel like?’ ‘Mum when did you have chicken cocks?’ ‘Mum it looks like you have chicken cocks all over you … on your face and on your mouth and on your legs’ It’s pox lovely toddler, POX.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act was the best film I’ve seen in years. So deep and sobering and just … An excellent ending to a series I’ve only watched for work reasons.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

‘Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average.’ - Freud

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Son: Mum why did the coal mines all close? Me: *tries to describe Thatcher closing the mines* Son, thinking hard: I thought she was just a milk snatcher. Parenting goal unlocked.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Good morning to everybody except my four year old son who announced at the top of his voice in the ladies loos ‘boys have penises and girls have tentacles’ 🤷‍♀️

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Went for a run last night and my heart stopped because a few people have died recently on this canal. But look 🐣🐣🐣🐣 !!!

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

🥹 got myself a ticket to @emfcamp.bsky.social after having the best time ever there last time. Now I just have to write this talk… ☺️

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I gather there are two (?) main ways to watch Star Wars for the first time. Today I’m dipping my toes in with The Mandalorian and Grogu (in 3D!), which I imagine is nobody’s pick for first film to watch. Wish me luck! 🙈

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Got a little too close to a mental breakdown, gunna stave it off for another 22 weeks 😅 Joking but also not - because I spent the last eight weeks telling myself ‘when the 10k is over I’ll rest my knees properly’ and now it’s ’meh no need to rest them, I have nothing for them to be fit for’ 🙃

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Out of office ✅ Same hill six hours (and 15 min/km) apart 💀 Start of a week off with the kids 👌

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Dr Liza Morton @drlizamorton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Children in the hospital do not need to be heroes. They need to be allowed to be children who are scared, upset, resilient, and human. My latest blog for Psychology Today - Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden More: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

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Rethinking “Bravery” in Paediatric Healthcare: The Hidden Burden

We call children “brave” when they are in the hospital, but do we silence their fear? It’s time to rethink hero narratives and support children’s emotional reality in care.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

‘For a cultivated layman […] affairs of the heart are of a different order of magnitude from everything else; they are, so to speak, inscribed on a special parchment unsuitable for any other form of inscription’ Freud

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Whenever I think ‘aww babies are cute I want another one’ I should have to host a party at soft play an it’ll knock it out of me for another year 🌳

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Took daughter on a short run (mum is here for childcare 🙌) and she was struggling - a group of teenagers, noticing I was encouraging her, started hyping her up and cheering her on. ‘Aww’ I think, what lovely young men. ‘I hate people’, she said, speeding up to ignore them 💀

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This cat has developed the habit of diving into the sink as soon as I want to brush my teeth? 😅 Off work today as toddler is in the middle of his tenth (?) episode of croup 😭

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Final ‘taper’ run before Sunday ✅ Now time for the panic about Sunday ✅

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Perfect end to a lovely day. I’m still ambivalent about running as a concept but I am in love with watching her fall in love with it. 🌅

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

When you offer to make a Pokemon themed meal for a Pokopia play date and then actually have to follow through #pokopia

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Post race coffee with a cheese and yoghurt vending machine and milk dispenser 🐮🥛 Too cute.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Had to run through a river up to my thighs. My feet are still soaked through. But my neighbour carried me through the first 5k before splitting off to do an extra five miles 🤷‍♀️

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have my first actual race next Sunday but I also have a 5 mile run tomorrow that I’ve been telling myself my knees are going to be in too bad shape for, but maybe they’re kinda okay now? And maybe I could push myself and do the 10 mile one? Might need the advice of actual runners here 😅🏃‍♀️🫣

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

When life gives you lemons, add sugar. CMV.

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Whenever I drive on roads like this I always imagine Americans would be horrified. Especially when the speed limit is 60 and you drive a stick shift 😅

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Jessica @playingandreality.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

‘Sex also involves demands and risks, because the needs of the other person may not align with yours; intimacy means intimacy with that otherness, the possibility that things will go wrong, that there will be pain and rejection..

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