The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
I learnt a new word today. I might be the only person who didn't know this, but there's a word for those bloody irritating songs that get stuck in your head - earworms! How brilliant is that?! Earworms affect all of us at some point, I mean, who hasn ...
There are a few things that are almost guaranteed to make me well up. When I have to say goodbye to my family after a visit. Every time a new baby screams for the first time on 'one born every minute'. And these five words; ...
I put together a blog post earlier this week made up of three of my favourite quotes about play. I had several comments from people saying how much they like the quotes and how true it is that play is serious business for our children, it's the way they ...
"For children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood" - Fred Rogers It's now well established that play is incredibly important to children and their development. In fact, it's so important that it's been recognised as a h ...
Sunday 17th May 2015 is national children's day which is looking to spread the word about how important play is to children. It's not just about them having fun. On the national children's day website they explain that "Play is so important to optim ...
I've mentioned in a few posts recently that Nerys has started to sign 'please' and 'thank you' which makes me really happy! I was also really pleased the other day when she signed 'wait' to me when she wasn't ready to get out of her buggy yet. I l ...