- Archive for May, 2012

Both Ruth and I are book lovers and to our delight both Munchkin and Bearcub seem to have followed suit so far.  We are both passionate about passing on the beauty of words and the wonderful world of imagination and stories found in books.  I really do think one of the best skills we can pass on to our children ...

Spelling is something which has been the bane of my life.  I was in the generation of children whose primary teachers had been trained that spelling should be “caught, not taught”, but unfortunately, I didn’t catch it; or at least not all of it. I obviously managed to drag myself through, however, and did indeed go on to get an ...

Today I was reading some online articles and could not resist clicking on a link in the side bar that read 'What Pregnancy did to our bodies - Six brave mothers reveal the toll having a baby has taken on their figures'.  I'm afraid articles like this are like porn to me.  I am not in the least interested in ...

We have written about toddler bullying before on the site, but this week I again needed to reflect on the issue of young children and what is and isn't bullying and what is and isn't 'just kids being kids'.  Things also made me consider when and why bitchy, competitive, cliquey friendship groups arise and whether or not it is sensible ...

Today on More than a Mum we have a guest post from Fiona.  Fiona is definitely 'More than a Mum'.  She writes her own blog at Peeling an apple and also makes pretty things for her jewellery website Morgan and Pink.  Her post today is on the Time magazine article "Are you Mom enough" I know that there has been ...

Yesterday we took Munchkin and BearCub on a new adventure and it turned out to be an adventure for us too! Ruth had been looking for 'Forest schools' in London and came across Nature Play.  So, along with a friend and her son we decided to give it a go.  As both South and North London are 'far' for us, being ...

On the women’s show at the radio station where I work today I heard a really interesting debate.  It was sparked from a small article in today’s Metro (free commuter newspaper) on 24 hour childcare.  According to the article parents could soon drop-off their children at 24-hour crèches because of increasingly antisocial work hours.  Apparently, the idea follows the growing ...

Fancy discussion the properties of non-newtonian liquids with your toddler?  Well, I did and with surprisingly good (if messy) results! You may well know by now that I (Ruth) am an English teacher and not in any way a scientist.  The OH, however, is busy studying for an astronomy degree (read his blog here – plug, plug!) at the moment ...

Today on More than a Mum we have a guest post from Kelly Menzies of www.life-is-now.co.uk. Kelly is a Change and Personal Development Leader who is passionate about leading people away from anxiety and stress to health and happiness. Mother guilt is something that we have blogged about a few times recently, and in today's post Kelly shares 10 tips ...

Before I was a mum myself I had a long list of things I would NEVER do once I was a parent and sneered accordingly at mums I observed doing any of them - letting kids watch more than half an hour of TV a day, parents who opened food packets and let their kids eat half the trolley contents ...