For years I avoided the term ‘tweens’ and certainly did not think you needed special skills for parenting tweens. I worked in marketing at the time and the only people using the term were also in marketing. It felt like the wankiest word in the world. A made-up thing used to sell products families don’t …
Primary school
Our eldest child went to a Montessori preschool and I learned such a lot from his lovely teacher. One of the first things she taught me was to foster independence. This meant not doing things for children that they are perfectly capable of doing themselves. When you’re in preschool, this means this like carrying your …
I was just about to rattle off a really great article with my most useful homework tips, but I stopped. I mean, how useful is one person’s advice really? Every home is different, every family is different, every kid and mum and thing is different. So, instead, I asked a bunch of my mum friends …