30th January 2014
My last post about why drama is beneficial prompted some parents to comment on the positive impact attending Perform classes has had on their children. While it's great to receive that feedback, it…
13th December 2013
I always adored receiving books as presents when I was a little girl and, now I'm a mother, I love it when my children are given books too. A book can open your mind to new worlds, take you on adventures…
30th November 2013
I am normally quite a talkative person but even I was rendered speechless when I read this article about some of the many Curriculum Cleansing changes that Michael Gove is planning. For example, currently…
10th November 2013
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…
1st October 2013
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…
24th September 2013
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,…
18th September 2013
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…
29th August 2013
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…
10th June 2013
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…
20th May 2013
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…
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