Coping in the Covid Classroom
In these unprecedented times, convention is going out of the window quicker than you can say defenestration. One of those conventions is school. This is an [...]
The Fabulous Flexi-Cat Lessons – A Love Letter to Sir W.
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 3 Charting the fabulous (and fatiguing!) flexi-Fridays with my OE-rich* 8 year old (currently identifying as a cat and a Georgian) February [...]
The Fabulous Flexi-Cat Lessons* – Learn from Experience
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 2 Charting the fabulous (and fatiguing!) flexi-Fridays with my OE-rich** 8 year old (currently identifying as a cat and a Georgian) *Oh [...]
The Importance of Giving Children Quiet Time to Think and Write – A Member’s Viewpoint by Tracey Chippendale-Holmes
In this series we mine the wealth of lived experience and invite members to share their thoughts with us – perhaps through an article, advice, sharing [...]
The HLP Diaries…Betty Books and the Lightbulb Moment
Slightly Mad Mummy: Entry 1 "Sometimes my daydreams work through the hopes, dreams, issues etc. surrounding our HLP children via the medium of painfully bad rhyming [...]
The HLP Diaries…Sink or Swim
Bemused Parent: Entry 5 “I’d like to sign up for extreme caving. It’ll be so cool – you get to wade and lie in cold water!” [...]
The HLP Diaries…It’s Christmas!
Bemused Parent: Entry 4 It’s the time of year when parents hold their breath in anticipation of their child’s brilliant star turn in the limelight. A [...]
The HLP Diaries…Call Me, Maybe?
Bemused Parent: Entry 3 We’re in the park for a playdate and the talk is all about mobile phones. Ada’s friend, Olivia, has just acquired her [...]
The HLP Diaries…Sleep Deprivation Unit
Bemused Parent: Entry 2 Dad and I could do with an early night. I don’t mean sleep but sitting down by 9pm, to read, chat or [...]
The HLP Diaries – “Everything is Awesome” ?
Lego Mum: Entry 1 Lego (other brick building systems are available) has always been one of those things I could take or leave. Eight-year-old Hugo on [...]