The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
Today, for your viewing pleasure, I give you 4 random things my son has said that took us ages to decipher. These are words and phrases that he said repeatedly but that we just couldn't for the life of us work out what he was actually trying to say, ...
We have a bit of a routine in our house. On a Sunday I'll cook a whole chicken in the slow cooker (which you have to try if you've never done it before). Then on Sunday evening my husband will strip the chicken, pop the bones back in the slow cooker a ...
Nerys is going through a really fun phase at the moment. It's the 'it's 5.30am and I'm wide awake and ready to start my day' phase. Fun. So my mornings have been fuelled by multiple cups of coffee and made easier by watching taped episodes of the G ...
I'm a strong believer in allowing my children to be themselves. Hell, not just allowing them to be, but actively encouraging them. If my son wants to play with the dolls house then that's great. My daughter wants to push cars around and crash them ...
Last week I wrote a post about the things I want my children to say 'yes' to as they grow up. One of the big ones for me is that they say 'yes' to being true to who they are, to embracing all their quirks and really just being themselves. As I was wr ...
Over the last year or so I've had various people telling me that they'd taken their kids to ride on a miniature train at a place in Derwen Fawr, Swansea. It sounded like so much fun and I knew Rhys would love it, so on bank holiday Monday we finally paid ...
I wrote a post the other day inspired by Dave Cornthwaite's message to 'say yes more'. It's something I'm really thinking about a lot at the moment. I'm quite a cautious person, and my natural immediate response to things outside of my comfort z ...