Seven Toys That Kids Love to Play With

It’s all very well reading toy recommendations from people who received press releases, but really kids are the best judges of what toys kids like. I often think that my crew are blind to their own toys as they’re shoved into IKEA Trofast boxes in one end of the sunroom, but…

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Goodbye Playschool

A year of going in for two afternoons, meeting your friends and holding my hand so tightly. You’d rush in, put your things where they went and play, flashing those big brown eyes in my direction before giving yourself over to the toys. You didn’t tell me the names of…

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Easy Valentine Crafts

  If it appears on this blog in a craft post you can be sure that it’s (a) easy and (b) not especially messy.** **no craft invented is not messy, and no activity is not messy in my house   So here’s another “child led” craft idea, this time with…

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