Category: Nursery
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2022
2022 was the year we moved and climbed mountains. It was the year we climbed the tallest mountain in the UK. It was the year that the mountains moved and we finally got the ASD diagnosis after many meetings, appointments and letters during a two year wait on the (deliberately underfunded by the Government) NHS.…
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Empathy
So I have been completing a course with Berkely Greater Good Science Centre (Might as well make use of insomnia). In one module, I was asked to complete the empathy test below: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/embed/empathy The summary of my results included suggestions on how to be more empathetic. Rather than swimming in neurosis on whether the tips…
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kids who die
I hope one day in the near future this poem from 1936 will stop being relevant. This is for the kids who die,Black and white,For kids will die certainly.The old and rich will live on awhile,As always,Eating blood and gold,Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of MississippiOrganizing sharecroppersKids will die in the…
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Probably Autistic
I’ve had to say that phrase quite a lot over the past couple of years. Whilst my son attended nursery school the possibility was raised that he may be on the Autistic Spectrum. He had advanced verbal skills but other traits suggested that he may have ASD. As time progressed it became more evident that…
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2020 Vision
Preface into the post below When I first filed for divorce I sent a group message to all my friends so it was out there. No elephants in the Whats Up groups so to speak. Many of my friends outside my close circle were shocked. “We thought you had the perfect life!?!” I was equally…
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I’m just not buying it
I’ve decided I would like to rellocate to wherever the people defending H&M are from. I’ve read comment after comment across social media by people stating they do not understand why people are getting so offended. What a blissful existence they must have, to have never been exposed to the racist use of the word…
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Vote For Me and other stories
It’s no secret that I love all things related to reading and teaching so when I was asked to review an educational children’s book I immediately cleared my Sunday afternoon schedule. 2pm Nap In this time of voter apathy and some of the lowest voter turnouts since WW2, many have wondered how we engage our…
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10 very unDisney newborn baby moments
I should probably state very clearly at the beginning of this blog I love being a mummy and how it has changed my life and of course my little one means EVERYTHING to me. Now that I have made that perfectly clear, lets cut to the chase.. Common to most Mums To Be, I savagely devoured…
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Aunty why is your baby a monkey?
Maybe the parental joy and pride of the first ultrasound is lost on a beautiful five year old little niece who loves Hello Kitty, Doc Mc Stuffin and believes Mc Donald’s is a farmer. There again I have to admit that the idea of a mini human growing inside me right now is just as…
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