Birthdays are special. Your birthday is the one day in the year when you are celebrating yourself with friends and family. It is an important ritual that marks the passing of another year of your life. It gives you the opportunity to reflect on your past achievements and set new goals for the future.
Birthdays are so much fun, but only when you remember them. Forgetting birthdays is a nightmare. Especially if it’s a close friend. Not only do you have to spend more but also find a thoughtful gift that looks like it was not purchased at the last minute! When everything else fails, food helps!
Gift buying for children can be tricky at times. Often our children won’t especially ask for much. There might be one or two things that they ask for, but as a parent, you often end up giving those ideas away when friends and relatives ask you what your child would like for their birthday.
Your child’s first birthday can feel like a huge milestone. Even after four children I don’t think I’ve ever got over the amount of changes that happen to your tiny bundle in their first year of life. We marked the occasion with a fantastic ‘smash the cake’ photo shoot, a messy but brilliant couple of […]
What are your children’s favourite shows on TV? Do they just enjoy watching the shows or do they recreate them when the show is over within their play? Our children love to do this and can frequently be found re-creating scenes from Andy’s Dinosaur Adventure, Dr Who, Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol and many more. One […]
Every birthday is special but it always seems important to mark a milestone birthday with a little something extra special. What do you think? It might be a party, a trip somewhere or a particularly special gift perhaps. We all have our own preferred way of marking a special ‘big’ birthday and we have to […]
You may have been reading our series of articles focused on learning beginning at home. So far we have looked at: Learning Sacks ; Song and Dance; and Science Kits . Reading together is a big focus of learning at home and you may have read our other post recently on encouraging independent readers. When the children are […]