As you know I have bought a new house exactly 9.15 miles from where I live now, which means a change of catchment area for both primary and secondary schools. I’ve done some research on the education in the area;

Firstly, I checked which primary school Erin would attend.
Then I checked the inspectors report for [...]

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I feel like I’ve come to a bit of a sticking point with littlemummy.com, visitor numbers have become static and I feel like I need to push the site on a little - I need your help.
Why do you read littlemummy.com, what are your favourite articles/features? What don’t you like, what do you [...]

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I’ve hit on a particularly interesting section in ‘You Want To Do What?: Instant answers to your parenting dilemmas‘ which covers morals.
The question was posed “When do children begin to know what is right and wrong?”. The section goes on to explain that there are three levels of development, preconventional, conventional and postconvential. [...]

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You may have read in my last post that we have bought a house. We currently live in a flat in Edinburgh so this will be a big change. The new house is just outside Edinburgh and finally we’ll have our longed after garden - front and back! We now have the task [...]

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One major thing I’ve done in the last year to simplify my finances is to get a flexible mortgage. This type of mortgage allows you to overpay and take payment breaks. All excess funds go into a savings pot which is offset against the mortgage lowering the interest to be paid, and, in [...]

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Is ADHD a valid illness, or is it a modern day excuse for doctors and parents of energetic children with no outlet?
I am currently reading/reviewing ‘You Want To Do What?: Instant Answers to Your Parenting Dilemmas‘. I was surprised to find that in the section about ADHD, instead of the sympathetic advice usually offered, there [...]

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Paula (a fellow british parent blogger and sponsor of littlemummy.com) sent us a sample barefoot book called ‘Bear About Town‘.
The first thing I noticed about the book was the vibrant colours, the cover is green, orange and pink, and they aren’t sickly shades, they look natural, which fits with the barefoot ethos. The books [...]

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Erin’s achievements this week have included counting to six, drawing on my shoes, saying “sausage” and “bubbles”, drawing on the highchair, completing a jigsaw alone, drawing on the wall, occupying herself in the morning with a book while I wake up, drawing on her toy kitchen. Are you following the pattern? The toddler [...]

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Just a quick heads up to anyone who hasn’t heard of blogrush. It’s a new widget, see the blogrush box in my sidebar?, that promotes bloggers in your niche. As you can see mine displays my fellow parenting & family bloggers, in turn my posts will be displayed and promoted elsewhere. This [...]

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My challenge this week was to think positively. My first test was the maths assessment on Tuesday, I tried not to worry, which I’m usually quite bad for and instead tried to focus on the fact that I’d done ample preparation. On the day I stayed relaxed and tried my best to [...]

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