Helping your child learn to tell time can be simple and enjoyable when you use small pockets of time throughout the day. By incorporating fun games, practical use, and daily routines, you can make learning to tell time a natural and positive part of your day. Happy time-telling!
Once you have been a parent for a while, you begin to realise what a total paradox it is the bulk of the time. Parenting can be the most amazing experience, which brings overwhelming love, joy, happiness and an immense sense of pride. At the same time, parenting can bring pain, sadness, frustration and total […]
Last night my youngest little man (now 22 months) slept through the night for the first time…in his own bed! Great right? Hmmmm…. On the surface, yes it should have been great. I slept in my own bed, all night, didn’t have to get out of bed for anyone in the night. Woke up and […]
The more I hear about the difficulties some women have conceiving, the more I hear about problems in pregnancy and the more I hear about those births that tragically don’t result in a healthy baby and mother at the end, the more I think that to have a healthy baby, never mind four healthy babies […]
Decluttering is something I find incredibly therapeutic. I probably have about three sessions of this a year but there is certainly something about the spring that sparks this in a big way. I always manage to find things we can recycle, giveaway, sell and bin during each of these sessions and for a while at […]
I wrote recently about time management issues and how although I don’t have much spare time to achieve things I am creative about how I use my time, so MOST of the time manage to achieve quite a lot everyday. It never feels like enough of course, so I am constantly trying to think of ways […]
We all have a whole host of things that we want to get done. Whether immediate, short-term goals or long-term dreams for the future, many of us have at least a vague idea of things we’d like to achieve, but for every goal that we want to achieve, it can feel like there are at […]
Recently it was pointed out to me that I had “time management issues”. This came after being two minutes late for playgroup one day. I was two minutes late because instead of the normal school run followed by playgroup run, I had tried to squeeze in the post office and recycling centre in between. This […]