Activity Pack Ideas For Older Siblings At A Birth
Ideas for keeping a toddler busy during labour and child birth. Activity packs, joint activities and more.Continue Reading →
Learning Colours – Make A ‘Book Of Colours’
Continuing on our current theme of colours, and learning colours, we decided to make a ‘book of colours. This took…
Time In As An Alternative To Time Out
We’ve all heard of time outs, right? The naughty step? It’s the super nannies’ (who often have no children of…
Choice And Consequence In Conscious Mindfulness
If there was a soundtrack to my life, the last week or so would have a ghostly echo pounding through a driving bass line. The ghostly echo would say one…Continue Reading →
Play And Positive Interaction
I’ve been reading a book called ‘Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice‘ and in the first chapter Sarah Chana…
How To (Not) Curse A Two Year Old
My little girl is two years old. In most circles, that fact is normally followed by ghostly ‘oooh’ sounds. That…
Peace For Parents – Friday Favourites
My favourite piece of writing* in pretty much all of literary history is the poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling. There’s something about his admonitions to his son that speaks to…Continue Reading →
Blackmail, Violence And Emotional Abuse As Parenting Tools
Blackmail is a crime. I think we’d all agree with that. Check out Erase Mugshots if you need mugshot removal services…
How Do I Learn To Play?
I made an alarming and dreadful discovery recently: I don’t know how to play. I’ve been trying to think about…
Christianity And Attachment Parenting: Do The Worlds Collide?
Do Christianity and Attachment Parenting go hand in hand? I’m sure we’ve all heard that Jesus was breastfed, and I’m sure we’ve all heard the Christmas story enough to know…Continue Reading →