Over the Easter holidays, Bunny joined Beat Camp for two days. Bunny has wanted to do Beat Camp for a really long time, so we decided to make it happen. Beat Camp is a holiday club (and after school club in some Gloucestershire schools) for children aged between 6-12 years. Beat Camp encompasses different percussion techniques (including junk […]
7 year old
The drama of moving schools: Bunny finds her hidden talents
Bunny recently moved schools and the difference in her is remarkable. She’s not as tired, because she’s not spending a large chunk of her day stuck in traffic. She’s also getting to school on time, because of this (most of the time). The money we would have spent on petrol for the school run, […]
Giving Children Freedom: How young is too young?
A while back I wrote a post titled “Tablet computers: How young is too young?” after deciding, reluctantly, to buy my oldest daughter (then 6) a tablet computer. The thing I like about writing these posts, is I often begin the post, with a certain view, but the debate it encourages amongst parents, often brings […]
Counting to 39 in Mandarin #TheKidsVlog Week 3
Bunny recently moved schools and her new school teach Mandarin instead of French, claiming it is “the language of the future”. I have to admit I was quite impressed with this. I know nothing of Mandarin and my Primary school didn’t do languages at all. How cool would it be for my daughter to know […]
#TheKidsVlog Week 2
Welcome to week 2 of #TheKidsVlog and thank you SO MUCH to everyone for their support of the first video, whether you linked up, subscribed to our channel, added #TheKidsVlog playlist to your favourites, commented on YouTube or hit the thumbs up. Everyone’s support was very much appreciated. We would like to give a special […]