Yay, a Lego exhibition, always makes everyone excited, but what are you expecting from the Art of the Brick? Lots of cool Lego sculptures – check The kids are going to have a great time gawping at the life size Lego sculptures – check Probably not going to be anything to interest me after the […]
why learn Wing Chun
Why learn Wing Chun? After all there are so many different martial arts out there, why should you choose to learn Wing Chun and what can Wing Chun teach your child? This week I was really honoured to be able to interview Sifu Jude Hudson of Kid’s Wing Chun Academey, I knew that there were […]
6 lessons that sports can teach us that school doesn’t
I was thinking that when I try to explain some important life lessons to my kids I tend to think in terms of sporting metaphors, like a four year old and one year old need sporting metaphors from the 90s and 00s. The point being that active participation in sport can teach children so many […]
How to be wise
I found this great video on YouTube on how to be wise. It goes through the accepted definition of being wise and whether it’s still appropriate in today’s world. What I found most interesting in this where the speaker Simon Cohen talks about children and how we misintrept thier behaviour (13 mins). I agree with […]
When someone criticises your child
There’s many things in life that you think you can handle before they ever occur and you think it won’t faze you when it does occur. When someone criticises your child it may either hurt you straight away or it may be something that grates on your nerves for a long time. I’ve tried to […]
How much TV should I let my child watch?
‘Don’t let you children watch TV it will pollute their minds!’ Well there are truths, lies and partial truths. I think that this is a partial truth, I would substitute certain channels in here rather than the concept of TV as a whole. When I had one child I would put the TV on in […]