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Helping Your Child Learn a New Language.

Language header

There will come a point in your child’s education that they will have to start learning an additionallanguage in school. Usually this is either French, German, or Spanish, or a combination of the three,but some schools will offer additional options. Learning a new language is very beneficial for children and …

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How to Be More Involved in Your Child’s Education.

Childs education

Showing an interest in your child’s education will significantly enhance their academic performance,because it will encourage and motivate them to try their best. There has been lots of research andstudies into parental involvement in a child’s education, most of which conclude that the moreinvolved you are, the more likely the …

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Top tips for fussy eating toddlers.

Grayson eating

When we first started weaning all those years ago (only a year and a half, but still feels like forever ago!) Grayson was such a good eater. He would eat anything you put in front of him or put on a spoon for him, but as he hit ‘toddler-hood’ he …

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Our bucket list for after lockdown.

Lockdown Bucketlist

Recently when we were on a walk around the block, we started talking to Grayson about all the things we wanted to do once lockdown was over and done with. I thought it would make a really nice blogpost, it’s also worth saying that the first thing we want to …

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Raising a sensitive child.

sensitive child

I’ll start by saying Grayson is an absolute diamond, that as his mum he can do no wrong in my eyes and that I love him with my whole heart regardless of who he is and what he does. This post isn’t me in any way criticising sensitive children, if …

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Trying to remain positive during a pandemic.

Ash Grayson beach

If you follow us over on Instagram then you’ll have seen a post I put up about the fact the UK are now officially in lockdown for a further 3 weeks. I think the majority of us had the same feeling of “3 more weeks of this?!!?! shit” which has …

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2 years.

Grayson beach

Grayson is officially 2 years old as of today (technically as of 7:50 tonight, but that would just be mean!) and what a wild 2 years it’s been. I remember bringing this tiny little baby home and just thinking “what now?”. I’d never been able to keep a plant alive, …

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Parents aren’t invincible.

Ash Grayson

The other week I was telling a friend how I’d had a really bad migraine the night before, and that because I was solo parenting at the time I told Grayson that my head was hurting and that I wouldn’t be a able to play as much. My friend then …

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Ways to encourage responsibility in toddlers.

Grayson Light assist

Grayson is turning 2 in April, and he’s at such an amazing age where he’s still so little but he also wants to be more independent and do more for himself rather than have us do things for him. Although we don’t want to push him to grow up (every …

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