The summer is here! Which means a daily array of fresh activities to entertain the kids doesn’t it? Well of course it’s fun to have a summer bucket list and do stuff you don’t get a chance to during school term time. But kids do actually need to learn … shock horror! … to entertain …
Tooth Fairy Inspiration and Free Printables Ahhh the Tooth Fairy. Along with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy is one of the most important characters in a kiddo’s childhood. M was SO excited when the Tooth Fairy visited to check on her carefully wrapped up baby tooth, which she’d secreted under her pillow in …
Want to know the only nit and lice treatment method you’ll ever need? One that doesn’t involve putting nasty chemicals on your precious child’s head? One that actually works? Read on… The ultimate lice and nits weaponry: Your best weapons in the fight against a lice and nit invasion are: A good nit comb – …
Here’s a guide to how to treat nettle stings fast, a way that stops them itching and stinging really quickly. HOW TO TREAT NETTLE STINGS A lovely weekend. Visiting a seriously cool Hogwarts like castle. Walking the best dog in the world. Picking blackberries. Fantastic. Except for the nettle stings! A big rash of horribly ouchy …
How To Make Rockets Fly Kids love rockets don’t they? And they are fascinated by how to make rockets fly. My 5 year old was in rocket heaven at London’s Science Museum recently where she got to check out rockets her great-grandpa helped build and to see a super cool show demonstrating how rockets take …
Chicken pox struck M three weeks back. The first two red spots appeared on a Sunday morning and by the evening they were popping up all over. Chicken Pox first appear as little red spots, but become blisters around 12 hours later. Having now Googled Chicken Pox I realised that the pesky virus could well have been the reason for …
Growing mint in water is definitely one of my fave kids gardening activities. Not least because it gives super quick results and is almost impossible to get wrong!! Plus it introduces kids to the science of how different plants reproduce and is genuinely the best way to grow mint from cuttings. AND it involves almost no prep for …
Teaching kids to code is a hot topic. It’s now on the national curriculum for kids from aged four here in the UK. And in the US, President Obama has added his penny’sworth claiming coding is the “new literacy” and all kids need to learn. But how on earth are you as a mum meant …
How exhausting is school, heh? My 4 year old just started “proper” school and by pick up I can actually see her brain whirring, overloaded with the day’s newness. Getting home and to bedtime feels like a high wire act … one teensy step wrong and we descend into meltdown and horridness.
So potty training is meant to take 3 days right? Hmmm … if only … My daughter showed all the signs of readiness. So we got the books on how she’d master the potty in 3 days flat and tried to follow them. And I really, really did try hard. But the house descended into …
I find I always have to take a deep breath when my daughter shouts and screams. It’s not as if she does it all the time. But like most children she shouts sometimes if she’s angry about not getting her own way. And sometimes when she’s frustrated with me and can’t find the words to express it. And …
he summer holidays are almost upon us! So why so glum mum? Hmmm … maybe it’s the thought of being Chief Entertainment Officer alongside CEO of the Household, alongside fitting in work and anytime for yourself. Plus there’s all the extra mealtimes to provide for – why do kids expect to have lunch on non-school …
We’ve got a date with some dinosaurs. Scary stuff! But luckily we’ve visited them before … … at the wonderful Natural History Museum … … and my terribly wise 4 year old will be there to remind me “they’re not really real mummy” when they RAAAA …WWR!, Phew!! But I do have a sneaky suspicion …
The other weekend whilst digging our new pond … very exciting! … we found pirate treasure … Long ago … maybe about the time of the Romans 😉 … the pirates sailed up the hidden river at the end of our road … and hid the treasure in the old marsh which is now our …
Learning to read is such a big milestone. It is the gateway to the life long joy of reading. But boy can teaching a child to read make us parents anxious! Most of us are completely confused about what we should be doing and when … … and get into a spin about not …
The great potty training debate has reared it’s head again.It’s popped up this time in a story about children starting school in nappies because parents … in largely deprived communities … were not parenting effectively. For all its rather scare mongering tone I do think the story raises some questions. I know of plenty of devoted, …