Five Minute Friday: Truth
Thanks Lisa-Jo Baker for today’s Five Minute Friday: truth. This is a tricky one! Truth. It’s a funny word. We hold it in such high regard, yet we all seem to not only attach different meanings to...
View ArticleWomen of the world unite? No thanks. My response to the Blogfest feminism...
I don’t know what I expected from Blogfest yesterday. But it certainly wasn’t what I thought it would be. I arrived at King’s place to a room packed full of influential women (and some men). Women...
View ArticleSexism in the cult of Disney? Fictitious heroines one limited template? I...
When I started writing this blog, I intended it to document our life as a new home educating family and to share some tips and activities about things which have worked for us. My last post though was...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Tree – Living and Playing
It’s Friday again and that can only mean one thing: Yes, it’s time for Lisa Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday. Five minutes of unedited writing inspired by a given word. Today’s word is tree. Here goes…...
View ArticleA Simple Christmas? 8 ideas to Make it Wonderful.
Earlier this week, the Archbishop Welby said that families should not make their lives “miserable” at Christmas by putting themselves under pressure to keep up with the “over the top” consumerism of...
View ArticleWhy Doctor Who Will Make Us Cleverer. Oh, And Is He Able To Clone Professor...
When I was at school, I was something of a geek. A swot if you will. I turned up to lessons on time, completed all my homework and actually revised for my exams. Of my own accord. I remember being...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Site
Hi Everyone Thanks for coming. Please stay a while and check out the new site. You’ll find all the old content from wordpress.com here followed soon by some juicy new reads. Do leave a comment and...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Fly
How fast a week runs by. It’s Friday again so here’s this week’s Five Minute Friday hosted by the marvelous Lisa Jo Baker. The rules are simply to write for five minutes, unedited, about a given word...
View ArticleGood Manners Cost Nothing. Perhaps That’s Why No One Has Them Anymore
I know every generation, when they find themselves teetering on the edge of middle age, questions the behaviour of the young. “We never had that in my day,” “I’d never have stayed in bed until that...
View ArticlePaying Parents To Help Children With Homework? Will This Break The Cycle Of...
A few weeks ago, I read an article which discussed a scheme to be trialled in Middlesbrough and Camden, North London in which parents will be paid up to £600 to attend ‘parenting academies‘ where they...
View ArticleSupport our Mums: The Value of Mother’s Work
In response to a reader comment after an interview in The Guardian, Kirstie Allsopp has said recently: “I think for someone to use the word housewife pejoratively is rude.” I agree with her...
View ArticleOf Course Boys and Girls Should Be Friends But Not Just For The Sake Of Feminism
On Tuesday, Daisy Buchanan wrote a thought provoking article in The Guardian, examining why, as children, girls tend to stick together and why boys would rather suffer a wet kiss from their wrinkled...
View ArticleEncouraging Our Children: When Nurture Turns To Pressure
I ‘ve recently returned from a holiday and have been waiting eagerly for Lisa Jo Baker to launch this Friday’s theme for the five minute writing challenge. So here it is: Encouragement. It conjures up...
View ArticleTalking About Miscarriage: Why Is It Still A Taboo?
Recently, a new and very supportive friend said something to me which had a profound effect. I was telling her, rather flippantly I might add, that I had recently suffered another miscarriage. The...
View ArticleScience In Schools: How Not To Inspire A Generation.
You may have read in the news recently, that the UK government is seeking to change the balance of our economy, by encouraging the growth of advanced technology, manufacturing companies and other...
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Sensory Maths Fun: Counting And Addition
My 3 year old loves maths. In fact, he just loves to learn – reading, maths, science… His curious mind loves the feeling of acquiring new knowledge. One of the wonderful things about home education...
View ArticleFive Minute Friday: Hero
It’s Five Minute Friday again. This week, the prompt is ‘Hero.’ Here goes: …..You don’t have to be afraid of what you are….. So says Mariah Carey in the song ‘Hero.’ Well, I’m sorry Mariah, but I...
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Learning Outdoors: Odd and Even Numbers, Problem Solving and Lots of Fun
King of the world – the view after climbing a tree. This morning, we decided to embrace the bad weather and head to a local nature reserve to blow away the cobwebs and do a bit of exploring. We know...
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Day Of The Dinosaurs: Maths and Measures, Papier Mache And Good Old Messy Play!
Recreating a Life Sized T-Rex Foot For Christmas, we bought Jasper lots of books about dinosaurs and to today we decided to have a whole day devoted to those prehistoric monsters. Julia Donaldson’s...
View Article8 Things That Change When You Have Children – And Why They’re Not So Bad...
As parents, we often hear ourselves saying that we have to make sacrifices for our children. Or if not for them, because of them. We mourn a life we claim to be unlived; hanker for the days when we...
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