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Europe’s first mini festival aimed at children with afro or mixed hair is landing in London at the end of September. An educational and celebratory day time event for children aged 5+ this is an event not to be missed.
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Learning to navigate through life can be difficult, that’s why I have these 80 life lessons I will teach my daughters
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In this guest post from the Executive Director of The Small Things, Bekka Ross Russell explains why the kids in her care are far from broken and how we can help create happy children in happy families
Continue readingThe Centre for Social Justice produced an absolutely shocking report highlighting just how dire the situation is for millions of children in the UK. We are letting down our children. Many are unable to get access to mental health and social care which they so urgently need. Over the years professionals…
Continue readingI love social media! Ask a question and within minutes, people from all over the world will help you with an answer. A few days ago I posed the following question: “Apart from good schools and transport links, what else do you look for in potential areas to relocate?” It…
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Princess has been full of sassy yet innocent one liners the last few weeks, normally they make me feel about an inch tall, all without her even having to put much thought into it. Here are some of my favourites On getting to ride on an old-school London Bus: Me:…
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We went on a family trip through the ice, snow and cold to watch DreamWorks The Croods in 3D on Saturday. I normally have a pet peeve against 3D films for kids as being a bit gimicky but this was so well done it had the majority of kids reaching…
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I love London. Not the extortionate tube fares, crowded buses or frequent police cordons blocking us from yet another violent act. There is thankfully much more to London than that. Culture, history, vibrancy, creativity, community. These all reside hand in hand with the negatives, though sometimes when your head isn’t…
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I read a wonderful guest post over on Tiger Tales earlier on this week written by a mother bringing up multilingual children, the post wasn’t actually about the fact that her children are multilingual, rather it dealt with positive reinforcement and image issues that come with being a brown skinned…
Continue readingPrincess asked for a dolls house for Christmas and ‘Santa’ willingly obliged, it came with a few dolls and some nice furniture which she quickly upgraded to more modern suites and a real porcelain bathroom set courtesy of her Nana. She even has tiny loo roll as she explained it…
Continue readingWe headed off to Leicester Square quite early in the morning for the preview screening of Ice Age 4, Continental Drift in 3D. There was a mini melt down when we realised there were no popcorn machines on that early in the morning but that was swiftly diverted with…
Continue readingPrincess had an adventurous outing with moi, her mummy, now royally dubbed “The Best” by Her Little Highness herself. We sloped inwards to Leciester Square to watch the preview performance of Ice Age 4 Continental Drifts and then made the short walk into Covent Garden to do a little girly…
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