Pride is much more than a parade: it symbolises the struggles the LGBTQ+ community endured and the hard-won progress it spent years fighting for. The month of June was chosen for LGBTQ+ Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots where police raided the now famous Stonewall Inn which occurred at the end of June 1969. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
How to Give Up Work and Home School – Top 5 Money Making Tips
I needed to come up with a plan fast in order to give up my job and stay at home to home school. In order to convince my husband it was doable I save up 3 months worth of my wages without him knowing!
How to Give Up Work and Home School – Top 10 Money Saving Tips
Often when I tell other parents we home educate they say they would love to but couldn’t because of money. They say they wouldn’t be able to afford to give up their 9-5 job, even though they truly believe their child would be better off home educated. I am here to tell you that it …
Hair brushing and body autonomy
When I was pregnant one of the things I was looking forward to was having a little girl I could dress pretty and do her hair. It was really important to me that her hair would look healthy and shiny and well maintained with pretty little clips and bows in it. I didn’t think much …
Why we took away food restrictions
Before I had children I was certain that they would not be allowed sweets, chocolates, junk food and most of all fizzy drinks. I believed those things were not healthy and bad for your body and I was going to ensure my children knew this from a young age. I even banned my husband from …