I’ve just emerged after five weeks of lazy summer holidays. I didn’t intend to ignore my blog, and my work, and my ‘to do list’ for the entire five weeks, but that’s what happened. For the past month or so I’ve hung out with my kids, read some books, gone swimming, pottered in the garden, […]
Kids Are Still Kids, Even When it’s Christmas
There is a lot of pressure for everything to be ‘perfect’ during the holiday season. Perfect decorations, perfect food, perfect presents, and perfect kids, dressed in perfect outfits. The thing is, this time of the year can be kind of stressful. It can be stressful for us adults, and stressful for our kids. There are […]
Exhale
I didn’t realise I was doing it until I stopped. I didn’t realise how loud I’d made my life until there was silence again. I didn’t realise how long I had been holding my breath until I exhaled. Finally I exhaled. I’ve been filling up every moment with something, anything, everything. Filling it with noise. […]
The Elusive Treasure of a Clean House, and Why it’s Not Worth It.
It’s taken all day but the study is finally clean and tidy. The door to the art cupboard closes, I can actually see the desk top, and I’ve even thrown out a pile of things I saved ‘just in case’. It feels so good. It feels like a fresh start, like anything is possible. I […]
The Magic Bean of Self Esteem.
Self esteem often seems like a magic bean – when you have it safely in the palm of your hand everything is just fine, but when it gets lost, it feels like bad things are sure to happen. In the past I didn’t recognise that it was self esteem that was making me struggle. I’d […]
A Tale of Dirty Socks and Why it’s Hard to Do Better When You Feel Bad.
Sometimes I send my kids to school cranky. I try so hard to set the tone in the mornings, to keep a lid on my frustration, and to smooth the way into a good day, but sometimes it all just falls apart. It can be as simple as the little one not wanting to eat […]
Ten Fabulous Find and Seek Books for Kids
There is one thing that will keep my 7 year old engaged for ages. This magical thing even kept him still and quiet when he was three and four years old. It’s not a screen (though I confess he does love the ipad, probably more than he loves me), it’s books, find and seek books! […]
What are we doing to our children?
The world is a difficult place to live in right now. Every day there is another news story that makes me want to cry. Some of them seem like big, huge, scary things. Some of them seem like smaller, sad, things. But every day there is more and more, and every day I am haunted […]
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