Growing Nimble Families

No matter where we live we must as parents prepare our children for living in a diverse world. If you live in a diverse place conversations maybe easier to start but the majority of us live and move in circles where this is just not true. We may argue that we see diversity in our media especially in children’s programming… View Post

It’s been an up and down week. Behaviour and tiredness is not a lovely combination. Everyone’s just been very chatty at bedtime. Thank goodness for the weekend. The LO had a great time today at our local toy library. They had put out these glasses for the children to find and use. He much preferred using them as glasses.  … View Post

Children will ask questions at times that make you cringe because the comment is said in earshot and often worse we don’t know a good response right now to the question or statement. It’s terrible. Terrible for us both. Seeing a child or adult with a disability  is no different. I wonder who has heard my child shout that comment…. View Post

Guess what?   Friday Finds is the place to unwind, grab yourself a comfy chair and reflect on your past week then plan for the upcoming one. With a little something to make you think, for them to do and for us to listen or watch……. We are putting ideas into action. Challenging ourselves to do a little differently. Be… View Post

Have you made seeded paper with the kids? This is one of our favourite projects. It takes a bit of time that we fill with endless questions and answers. We hit problems and discovered solutions together.  There’s something about tearing paper in a group that allows time for those type of conversations. It’s a time involved process that depending on… View Post

We’ve been busy rotating books this week.It’s one of those activities that we all enjoy…..a little too much. It shouldn’t take so long but we all get stuck into the new books out after being away for sometime. You can’t really tell your children off for reading. I tried to do a bring 5 swap 5 but I didn’t anticipate… View Post

Being a new mum overseas lead me to learn very quickly. By the time baby and I were ready to go out for the day it was nearly 10:30 and more often 11am. Depending on where we were there wasn’t usually a baby changing room or nursing area. We got used to changing in the car, having a bottle of… View Post

With all the rain this week we’ve been in and out like yo-yos. One hazard of being inside is that I decided to clear up the recycling area. There were partly broken down boxes sticking out everywhere.  After seeing this pin + time inside we came up with a fun play activity on the spot. You can watch our journey below… View Post