Dinosaurs are something children often seem to fall in love with and what better way to get them to learn than by linking that learning with something they love. In order to help you do that, I’ve rounded up the best free dinosaur themed learning resources on the internet. Dinosaur Themed Maths Learning Resources […]
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Parenting Life and Humour
5 Things Only Grandparents Do
Last week I was chatting to a friend at the school about grandparents. She told me a story about how, when her Dad and Step Mum were looking after her kids, they cooked sausages for dinner. She has three girls and when all the sausages had been shared out evenly, there was one left. Instead […]
Free Range Parenting
Free Range Parenting
Have you heard the term “Free Range Parenting”? It’s becoming popular in the US but has been discussed less here in the UK. Wikipedia defines it like this: “… the concept of raising children in the spirit of encouraging them to function independently and with limited parental supervision, in accordance of their age of development […]
Babies and Toddlers
Toddler Separation Anxiety
Leaving your toddler somewhere without you is hard. It automatically kicks the mum guilt into a high gear. If your toddler sobs their little heart out as you walk out of the door, mum guilt goes in to overdrive. We’ve all been there, which alone should tell us that we don’t need to feel guilty […]
Process Art with KIds
How to Decorate Rocks with Melted Crayon
As you may have noticed from previous posts, I really like melting to stuff, particularly crayons. This process art was something we decided to do to add to the community caterpillar that is growing outside our school bit it was so much fun and the results were so pretty that I’m planning on decorating more […]
Older Children
Dinosaur Themed Learning Resources
Dinosaurs are something children often seem to fall in love with and what better way to get them to learn than by linking that learning with something they love. In order to help you do that, I’ve rounded up the best free dinosaur themed learning resources on the internet. Dinosaur Themed Maths Learning Resources […]
Work at Home Mum
The Problems with Working From Home with a Toddler
Last week I unexpectedly had my 8 year old at home with me. I work from home so It was a work day for me so I had things I needed to get done. We muddled along fine, with him doing some Lego and watching a movie. The experience made me think about how different […]
Toddler Groups
Starting a Toddler Group
When Boy Child was just two and I was heavily pregnant with Girl Child I started attending a toddler group. By the time Girl Child was a few months old it was threatened with closure because the lady who had been running it was moving. With a baby and a toddler to look after I […]