More Than A Mum Blog

How did you come to be involved in the TBFF and how long have you been a part of it? The Faiths Act Fellowship is run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, and brings together 33 young leaders of diverse faith from the UK, US, Canada, India and Sierra Leone.  The fellows are tasked with spearheading the Faiths Act movement, mobilising young people of all faiths ...

"There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” the critic Cyril Connolly once famously said. Was he right? Is parenthood so very hard to combine with creativity? Deborah Brooks, founder of Writing Parents gives her views. It is 10pm when I finally sit down and start writing this. That’s after a day in which ...

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 ...