The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
Deciding whether or not nursery is the right path for your child can be quite a challenging decision for many parents. For others, nursery is less of a choice and more of a career demand. Whatever the reason for sending your child to pre-school, you c ...
I have to be honest. I don't think I've ever walked my children to school. We've walked home from school a handful of times. And when Nerys was just doing half days at school I would walk her home fairly regularly when the weather was nice. But fo ...
Most school subjects depend on your child’s ability, whereas creative writing is more about who they are, rather than what they know. Of course, there are skills involved in creative writing but they aren’t learned by revision and memory, which makes ...
Well last week was a bit of a weird one. I got myself all mixed up at the start of the week, convinced that Nerys' yoga club was after school on Tuesday when it was actually Wednesday. Luckily I checked just before I went to pick Rhys up so I was ab ...
When you leave the house do you take the bare minimum with you, or are you more like Mary Poppins with a bag full of anything and everything you could ever possibly need? I think I fall somewhere in the middle most of the time. There are a few thing ...
All parents want their children to do well in school, but not everyone knows how they can help. The truth is, there are actually lots of things you can do to help your child with their education, even if you’re not a maths genius or a science whizz. S ...
Some days you don't want to spend ages cleaning, but you want to do a few quick things to make your house feel like not quite so much of a disaster zone. For those kinds of days, here are 5 things you can do to really quickly get your home feeling clea ...