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When I talk to children about what is going on in their heads when they say that they are very busy, the things that occupy their minds most of the time ranges from: worry about school work or homework friends family thinking about the next thing that needs to be done Very rarely do theContinue reading “Mindful or Mind full?”

Change is inevitable, it is simply part of life, from the way our children change as they grow older to the changing of the seasons through to the remarkable chemical changes that take place when we cook.    All of these things we take in our stride, because we know that they are going to happen. Continue reading “Reacting to Change”

For thousands of years, humans wrote without any letters. They simply drew pictures to make their point. You didn’t have to know a certain language to understand these pictures. Modern-day drivers know that a road sign with an airplane on it means that an airport is nearby, no matter what language they speak. These ancientContinue reading “Writing”

I have noticed more lights going up, decorating trees outside – my own included, and Christmas trees being brought inside, similarly festooned with lights and all that glitters.  This has made me reflect on the way that light, and the symbol of light, affects our lives. We have commonly used phrases that use light inContinue reading “Light in the Darkness”

I don’t know about you, but I quite like shoes and the feeling of getting new shoes.  I was talking to some children about this and they said that new shoes can make them feel a bit more grown up, because they have physically grown,  Some said that they felt proud and walked a bitContinue reading “New school year: New shoes”