Why are we so obsessed with asking kids what they want to be when they grow-up?
What do you want to be when you grow-up? We’ve all been asked. It’s one of those common questions kids are asked, partly for titillation of what they’ll come back with and partly, if you have an invested role in their future because you really want to know and you want them to get on the track to pursuing a job that will make them successful.
(more…)After having a baby some pretty wild things happen inside a woman’s brain box. After my third birth I felt like I was confusing the names of the kids all the time, like some kind of stereotypical grandma in a cartoon.
(more…)During my pregnancy with Scout I started a love affair with the bath that is still continuing two years later!
(more…)My family and I have all just had covid.
(more…)In my career I have been hired and have won work over and over again for being ‘passionate’.
(more…)I was having a clear out the other day when I found a maternity leave ‘bucket list’ I’d written some time ago. I had to laugh. Else, I might have cried.
(more…)Sometime ago I was asked to do some radio to comment on the phenomena of unboxing.
(more…)My youngest son Scout is 2 years old.
(more…)I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura Jogela-Williams who is a Teacher and SEN expert. Her insight into the role of play with SEN children is fascinating and one that I hope you will find of interest and of use in your lives.
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