Home and Hearth

Hang onto your hats for this one, ladies, because I can already hear the screams of derision before I even start typing: this article is all about keeping your man.

Read more

I’ve had a few conversations with friends recently which highlighted to me the terrible ways in which the media have portrayed single women and how we can find partners for life. I was talking with a friend about the series Sex and the City, which I really liked when I was younger. We both said that we had enjoyed it at the time but that we now realise how very damaging it could have been.

Read more

The more I learn about how children work, in my childcare course, right from 0-3 through 8-12 and sometimes beyond, the more that I think that day care is the wrong place for our youngest children. And I can’t shake the feeling that in the very earliest years of life, we probably shouldn’t be there.

Read more

In my last article, I wrote about how modern parenting advice, given by “Health Practitioners”, the media or the NHS, can often be detrimental to family wellbeing. I maintain that this is the case and took very little notice of this type of “advice” when I was pregnant and a new mother. Instead, I chose to listen to older women who had experience of child-rearing because I found that their guidance was far more sensible than that of newly-qualified health visitors who knew nothing more than the things they had b...

Read more

In my last article, I mentioned how exercise and healthy eating can help the whole family, once a new baby comes home. I also mentioned that I had done lots of batch cooking, prior to our daughter’s arrival. For those who aren’t sure about the term, “batch cooking” is making several large dishes, which can then be frozen in small portions and defrosted when required.

Read more