My friends used to laugh at me when we went on day trips! They knew I would have at least one travel sized bottle of Aloe Vera in my bag. I literally carry it everywhere!! They soon stopped laughing when my magic see-through cream stopped their kid crying after they fell and cut themselves and …
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Memoirs of COVID-19
Being on lockdown isn’t something that is going to happen again in our lifetime so I want to do something to remember it before our lives go back to “normal” again. So, as we approach what I hope to be the final 3 weeks of lock-down I have decided to document some things as a …
How to celebrate VE day in lockdown with kids
The British government changed 2020’s May Day bank holiday to Friday 8th May to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE day. The purpose was to have an extended weekend full of celebration but that was before Covid struck and forced the nation to go on lockdown. It doesn’t mean we still can’t celebrate though! …
5 Fun Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
April 22 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970 and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event. This year’s theme for Earth Day is climate change. There are lots of ways to take action, even while on lockdown. Visit the Earth …
Introduce a Growth Mindset into your Home
This discovery changed my life! I started the change by having piano lessons and I learnt to read music, something I believed I couldn’t do! I was 36 years old when I discovered growth vs fixed mindset, realised I had a fixed mindset and that I could actually do something about it! I started researching …
5 Tips to Prepare your Daughter for Menstruation
At her first bleeding a woman meets her power. During her bleeding years she practices it. At menopause she becomes it Traditional Native American Saying, taken from Moon Time by Lucy H Pearce I wake up feeling I have not had a good sleep yet I can remember my very vivid dream. I sit …
Deschooling – Three reasons why it is important
When Rayne and Rose were babies we didn’t even discuss homeschooling as an option. My husband (Sy) and I both had 9-5 jobs and our local primary school had an excellent reputation. We settled into a routine of wake up, get ready for work, send the kids to school/childcare, come home from work, cook and …
10 things I wish I knew about labour and childbirth
When I was pregnant for Rayne I felt like I had done quite a lot of research and preparation for the labour and birth. We did hypnobirthing and I had a very detailed birth plan, I was hoping for a home birth . After giving birth and after the shock of having to care for …
Traditional Welsh Cakes Recipe
We like to home school in a way that allows our children to learn through their interests but we also like them to learn about important topics such as Welsh history. It is up to them to decide how deep they want to go with their learning, we will just give them the subject and …
Best friend or secret bully – How to tell the difference
Do you remember having a best friend in school but that same best friend often made you feel like you weren’t quite good enough? Maybe you didn’t realise it at the time but as you got older you started to recognise what she was doing was wrong. Or maybe you did or said things to …