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Should I make my children vegetarian or vegan?

I’m now two thirds of the way through my first month as a vegan and am all set to continue, hopefully for the rest of my life. This week I have hit a new dilemma as preparing meat for the children to eat made me feel physically sick to the point of retching. I always […]

Introducing the February Food Challenge!

My kids are becoming fussy eaters. All 3 of them. They used to willing to try anything, they used to finish their plates. In fact I had comments on how incredible they were about trying new foods. Now I struggle to get them to eat anything other than the same 6 or 7 meals. Actually […]

Oh, pants! And a giveaway!

As I mentioned in my post to kick off the year, Zach is rapidly approaching the potty training stage. My mum goes on about how me and my sister were both potty trained at 13 months. Well, we were marvelous, weren’t we?! My kids were not that perfect and waited until they were 2 and […]

‘Please explain terrorism to me’, by Laurie Zelinger

This is a book that I hope I never have to read again or show my children. But I will because the world we live in is not a kind one 🙁 It is incredibly sad that we need this book but that makes it even more important to read it and use the techniques […]

Spider Stampede by Ali Sparkes

Last night we finished reading Spider Stampede which is the first book in the SWITCH series of books by Ali Sparkes. I bought this for Anya when Ali visited Matthew’s school last half term. The book centres around twins Danny and Josh who live next door to scientist Petty Potts. They accidentally get transformed into […]