Lucy's blog

Lucy Quick - Principal of Perform

10th November 2013

Is your child safe at school?

Did anyone read this story recently about a grandfather in Kent who went to pick up his granddaughter and was given the wrong child?. He took this child to a doctor's appointment where she was prescribed…

Tags: children, parenting, teachers, education, Ofsted

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1st October 2013

Children, fresh fruit and vegetables - are we too obsessed?

I had to share this piece by Tim Lott in The Observer last week. Tim talks about the struggle he had to get his eldest daughter Ruby to eat fruit and vegetables as a child. Ruby refused to eat anything…

Tags: child development, News, children, parenting, food, parents

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24th September 2013

Why I hate the word Mumpreneur

I really can't stand the term Mumpreneur. If you haven't heard it before, it simply means a Mum who is also...(you guessed it)... an entrepreneur. And, as a Mum who is an entrepreneur myself,…

Tags: parenting, business, parents, Mumpreneur, Working mum

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18th September 2013

The Shy Princess

OK, I'm going to come clean. I have a guilty pleasure...and that's the new Disney cartoon Sofia the First. If you haven't seen it, it's a series about a young girl whose mother marries the…

Tags: child development, drama, dance and singing, parenting, singing, confidence, Activities, parents, education

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29th August 2013

Is breast-feeding actually best?

I read this article in the Independent in June and it made me so cross that I couldn't bear to blog about it. However, following all the international coverage about The Duchess of Cambridge breast-feeding…

Tags: child development, News, Baby, children, parenting, Adjusting to New Babies, parents, breast-feeding

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10th June 2013

Children and shyness - are parents sometimes to blame?

Careful the things you say. Children will listen.. Forgive me quoting one of my favourite Stephen Sondheim songs from Into the Woods but these are wise lyrics and I do think that we should be extremely…

Tags: child development, drama, dance and singing, children, behaviour, parenting, confidence, parents

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20th May 2013

Are we REALLY still discussing whether women should work or not?

I was watching BBC Breakfast on Monday morning and there was a debate on between two working mothers about whether women should feel guilty about working. The two mums were expressing different views on…

Tags: parenting, parents, Working Mums

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1st May 2013

Would longer school hours improve our education standards?

You'd have to have been living on Planet Mars recently not to have heard about Michael Gove's suggestion to have longer school days and shorter holidays and the negative reaction there has been…

Tags: child development, children, schools, Activities, teaching, education, Ofsted

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12th March 2013

Cracking the Whip

There was a really great piece by journalist Tanith Carey in the Sunday Times in December which I've been meaning to blog about for ages and I urge you to read. It's all about her daughter Lily's…

Tags: child development, children, behaviour, parenting, kids, parents, Home, success, education

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8th January 2013

Why our child safety will always be annoyingly strict!

I found a review on Mumsnet about Perform the other day. The Mum was waxing lyrical about us and how great our classes are. Her only one complaint was that our Safety Procedures were a little too strict…

Tags: children, parenting, Activities, teaching, Health & Safety, child protection

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