Why is it when kids come along our once beautifully styled home ends up looking like Toys R Us on steroids? And it’s funny that with the first child we tend to fuss over the child’s environment, making sure the nursery is “just so”. It’s a big event and of course, we want our newest […]
Tell me mama, do you ever go through this annoying cycle… You do the bulk of your work through the week so that you can have downtime with fun family activities at the weekend but then you end up doing all the boring stuff at the weekend? For us, we would do the cleaning laundry and […]
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 […]
