Two Ways To Boost Your Child’s Confidence 1. Using Music To Help Kids Be More Confident You don’t need me to tell you about the power of music. We all know how hard it is to resist the beat of a good track, before long your toe is tapping and quite possibly you’ll be humming […]
Kids learn through play and activities. While watercolour painting and artworks are fun and educational, cleaning after their mess is absolutely not. We just don’t have the luxury of time spending an eternity on our knees, scrubbing and brushing all the dirt away. It may be tempting to just give them mobile phones and tablets […]
How To Help My Child Learn To Read One of the questions I get asked about a lot is “How to help my child learn to read?” . I have years of teaching under my belt and I have taught hundreds of kids to read and write in English but when I discovered Montessori I […]
How To Pick A Book At The Right Reading Level . We are big book lovers in this house and Ebi-kun has loved books from the start, he was also an early reader and will pick up anything and try and read it, big words don’t phase him, in the slightest! I know we dropped […]
Working from home is ideal because you are cutting on costs for transportation, paying a nanny’s salary, time spent commuting and eating out. While this is a perfect setup especially with a growing family, it may also be a struggle because your kids can get bored or run out of things to do… and we […]
10 Amazing Ways To Connect With Your Kids One thing that I hear moms grumble about, especially here in Japan is the lack of quality time to have with the family, whether that be with the kids or the partner. And as the kids get older, their schedules get busier and we do have […]
Free Father’s Day Printable Keepsake I am a big believer in keeping things simple and this free Father’s Day printable certainly does that. BUT it will also tug on the heartstrings of even the grumpiest of dads! This is actually an updated version of one I made several years ago, when I dusted it off this […]
How To Homeschool And Work From Home This is quite a new journey for us as full-time homeschoolers. Although I have been working from home since 2005 and juggling that with life as a mom at the same time and we have always done some kind of homeschooling as we are raising a bilingual […]
Picture the scene… you walk into the room and WHAT THE HECK? Did Toys R Us vomit all over the floor? Yes, we have all been there. For some this will be a daily occurrence for others it happens just once in a while. And then the following goes down: Mom: Right then, you have 10 […]
Family Bucket List 18 for 2018 Building stronger connections whilst having fun Yes, it is that time of year when everyone is setting intentions, resolutions and goals. I’m not a fan of New Years Resolutions but I do like a solid bucket list. If you are setting resolutions, check out my post on habit […]
