Summer learning the Lexonik way – no classroom, no home-school, just fun!
Lexonik have this year decided to gift you a gem of a six-week programme, which makes it easy to dovetail family fun, with ongoing learning and development.
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Parents, you don’t need to be afraid of grammar. Most of us weren’t taught it!
Question. Who is more likely to suffer imposter syndrome? A) Actress B) Small-time Entrepreneur C) Parent If you’re a parent you’ll no doubt recognise that a great deal of the time, it’s that particular ‘role’ in life which keeps us fraught with self-doubt and a sense of inadequacy. Why? Why do we spend so long…
My determination to the keep bedtime story alive continues…
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo I love our kids. They’re always so insightful and eloquent…Whilst trying to write this blog about the next book Amy and I read at bedtime, I asked Amy: “Why did you enjoy Private Peaceful?” And her response was: “It’s just a good book” I was obviously searching for something…
Warning – reading can be dangerous!
If you are in my age bracket, you will remember the original Ladybird range of books. I loved these books because they were accessible, colourful and full of facts and fiction. Each week, I spent my pocket money on a new one, collecting quite a number which, sadly, I no longer have. As this range…
Game on!
Recently I watched the mini-series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, enjoyable to watch and it did make me reflect on a couple of concepts. One particular aspect and central to the film – the playing of a game of chess – immediately focused my attention. My grandfather taught my father how to play chess, my father taught…
Bedtime story with pre-teen and teenagers…
Bedtime story with pre-teen and teenagers… ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Q Rauf. Now, before I start with the review of the book, “The Boy at the Back of the Class”, and how it worked as our teenage bedtime story, I have to admit that I stumbled across it by…
Reading with our teenagers and keeping the bedtime story alive
I don’t know about you but I’m finding this child to pre-teen parenting tricky to navigate. My daughter, not being a teenager yet, although she desperately wants to be, and not being a little girl anymore, even though she desperately wants to be, is a phase of motherhood that I wasn’t prepared for at all. I look at this…