The Beautiful Early Years! Key Area No.2: Literacy Development – Writing As a teacher writing is one of the most joyful areas of learning to develop. That magical moment when a child first forms a letter for their...
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The Beautiful Early Years! Key Area No.2: Literacy Development – Reading ‘The more you read the more things you will know and the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’ Dr Seuss The importance of learning...
The Beautiful Early Years! Key Area No.1: Expressive Arts and Design. I was once stuck outside Ikea when my husband realised that the furniture we’d purchased, plus our children weren’t going to fit in the car. Stranded at...
Helping your family beat the winter blues! Keeping a young family thriving after the festive period can be challenging. We can feel a societal expectation to keep beavering away at full speed rather than adapting our lives to winter...
Calm Christmas Holidays! Uncertainty in the world is again looming and ‘calm’ is not a state of being I am achieving regularly right now. In times like these, especially for those of us with small people, we need to...
A Conscious Christmas! Every year I truly believe I am going to ‘do’ Christmas different. I am not going to suffer a last-minute panic, over-buying and responding to my children’s last-minute wishes. Despite my best intentions ever single year...
Trust your PARENTAL INTUITION… It’s our hidden SUPERPOWER! I knew from the second week of my youngest’s life that she was going to need a strong mother. She cried relentlessly and would only feed in her sleep. Fourteen doctor...
Help Your Child to Fly in Pre-school! The memory of my eldest child being pulled off me every morning in the nursery cloakroom will never leave me. I felt my heart breaking every day and even though with my...
