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Are you good at self care on this parenting journey?
7 steps to remind you and me of self care. As self care should always be a priority and what we do influences how our children look after themselves.
Continue readingWhere have they gone?
But what I have also been thinking about is that there will be a time when they will be gone and out of the house and it feels like time is racing by, sand speeding through an hourglass…
Continue readingUnschooling, parenting and getting help.
I cannot do unschooling on my own. So I don’t. I open up the doors, and let other people in. I have an in-built hero habit, where I try to do it all which ultimately serves no one, least of all the
Continue readingIs it possible to do anything other than unschool (ie work) when you unschool your children?.
That is a question I ask myself a lot. Right now I am sitting the kitchen, I have a bowl of muesli to my left which my son made for me and my daughter is showing me the fact that our cat has dyed his three
Continue readingLearning to step in to the boy’s world…
There is so much about being a mother of a boy that I don’t understand, that is not inherently in my bones, that I sometimes have to turn to my husband and ask ‘what is this boy thing all about?’
Continue readingHow do you teach your daughters to be powerful?
What does that mean anyway? To have power? Power can be a bit of a scary word. Wars have been fought over power. Maybe for me it means that our girls will be able to stand in their power when they are
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