The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
The summer holidays are a great time to encourage our children to get up and get active. There are so many benefits to spending more time outside as a family, and it's so important to keep our children active rather than spending all summer sat in fron ...
We moved into the house we currently live in when I was about 7 months pregnant, from a furnished one-bedroom flat. So we had to get a fair bit of furniture and soft furnishings all in one go. Looking back now though I'm quite pleased that we had to do ...
As a parent I try to follow the rule of modelling the behaviour I want to see in my children. So if I want them to be polite and say 'please' and 'thank you' I will make sure they hear me saying those things and see me being polite in my interactions w ...
I remember when I was younger I would get so fed up seeing all the shops full of 'back to school' displays right at the start of the summer holidays. Sometimes before the holidays had even started. Now that I'm a parent though I sort of get it. Don ...
This week's photos were taken on our Friday evening trip to Swansea bay, just before I took our siblings project photos for July. We popped down to the beach right at high tide and it was absolutely gorgeous down there. The children had stripped off ...
I am absolutely loving the fact that, just like June's siblings project photos, this month's pictures are from a gloriously sunny trip to the beach. We went for quite a quick swim and play last weekend, and promised the children we would go back one ev ...
On Saturday I packed up a bag with drinks and a towel and a change of clothes for the children. I dressed them in their swimming costumes and covered them in sun cream. Then we headed off to the summer fete at a local church. That might seem a bit ex ...