The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
There is a green outside my parents' house that has three trees on it that were just perfect for climbing when I was young. In the years since I moved away they've been cut back, so you can't climb them in the same way any more. But I can still pictur ...
So here we are. The end of August and very nearly the end of the summer holidays. Things have worked out quite nicely this year with Steve being off work for the last week, so we've had loads of time together as a family. In typical Swansea fashion t ...
In my pre-children days I used to exercise loads. I would do classes at the gym, jog along the seafront and do various workout dvds at home. Then I had Rhys and it all basically stopped. I've made more of an effort to start exercising again in the la ...
I'm in that strange time space again. Where it feels like the summer holidays have flown by, but at the same time it feels like a lifetime ago that the children broke up from school. I can't quite get my head around the fact that we're into the last w ...
80% of communication is non-verbal. Or maybe it's 90%, or possibly 55%. It depends on what study you've read really. The point is, a lot of what we communicate to other people is done through our body language rather than the words we say. What' ...
We went on a bit of a mission this weekend. My husband went out to do the third leg of his epic walk round Gower that he does every summer. So the children and I did a bit of a long walk ourselves. We decided to see how many of the local parks we cou ...
As summer starts to wind down and the kids prepare to head back to school, it’s only natural to look back at all the great family memories that were made this year. Summer is typically that time of year where families escape on a holiday, if only for a co ...