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By MummyWhisperer, on May 12th, 2012% 
Choosing schools must be one of the most stressful experiences a parent ever goes through.
Changing where you child goes to school is even worse!
Rationally there is no way that just this one choice will be the making or breaking of them. But for some reason we become complete nutters when bewildered by choices, social pressure, decisions between private vs state schools and ghosts from our own experiences.
I’ll never pay for primary I said!
I was always a big fan of state primary, it seemed daft to pay for something that was available for free. But never say . . . → Read More: Why we changed our mind from state school to private and back again
By MummyWhisperer, on March 7th, 2012%
What makes us feel one way or the other about education and the choices that we have to make for our children?
Some of it must be society and peers. But I reckon a big part comes from our own childhood.
I was sent to an all girls school; hence my dislike of single sex education.
I also went private right through, my husband went half & half. So initially we were planning on state primary for Curly Headed Boy and Little Dimples, until our options were limited to a school that had a bad reputation with the potential for improvement. We just weren’t . . . → Read More: Does your past affect your worries about your children’s schooling?
By MummyWhisperer, on December 19th, 2011% 
Family travelling the world in a motorhome
With the big hairy northern one being made redundant, we’ve been talking about taking a year out as a family gap year; maybe 6 months in the states, home for my brothers wedding and 5 months in Australia and New Zealand.
Curly headed boy is 6yrs old, and having been to a private school is a bit ahead of our local state schools, so if we home school as we go, it will . . . → Read More: Family Gap Year vs Finding The Magic at home
By MummyWhisperer, on September 30th, 2011% Apparently today the government is suggesting media lessons for primary school kids. Do we really need this? What do you tell your kids about adverts and the effect on our decisions?
Well, funnily enough I had a chat with Curly Headed Boy last night. We normally watch Cbeebies and Disney, which are advertising free; sort of, because the programs themselves are a pretty good advert and Little Dimples will pick up anything with ‘Poggle’ in it (Iggle Piggle) or ‘Oink’ (Peppa Pig). But as he is learning spanish at school we switched to Nick Jnr in order to watch a bit of Dora this week, . . . → Read More: What to tell your kids about Advertising?
By MummyWhisperer, on April 27th, 2011% So it’s back to school for Curly Headed Boy for two days, one of which is a Royal Wedding Party! Then off for a long weekend and back again. Then it’s 3 weeks to half term and 5 1/2 weeks until the summer holidays! I’ve enjoyed the Easter holidays with the kids, we didn’t do anything major, but I’ll do a couple of blogs to update you. They had to go back in shorts, poor little blighters had very cold legs, I might have to swap back to long socks tomorrow. Of course Mummy wasn’t very organised despite the month off, so I haven’t got . . . → Read More: Video Wed: Back To School and Back To Mine
By MummyWhisperer, on April 5th, 2011% I’ve been meaning to write about competition for ages as it is a really touchy subject. Should there be competition at schools? Why do some mums compete with each other about their children? But I’m particularly writing today because I was talking to a lovely Mum the other day who was feeling bad about suddenly feeling competitive with a work associate, even though it had given her a jolly good kick up the bottom and improved her business no end.
Lots of people are against competitive parents, but those parents would say that they are just trying to get their children the best opportunities. Then . . . → Read More: Competition isn’t bad it just is
By MummyWhisperer, on March 29th, 2011%
So Curly Headed Boy started in reception last September. I expected it to be a bit tricky, but by the end of the first term he was no happier and it was really affecting him at home. So I’ve been posting about the 7 steps (See the category ‘starting reception‘) that I took to try and resolve it, but I thought I would summarise them here.
How did I know that it was something that needed to be looked into, rather than something that would just sort itself out? Well, I suppose that is all relative, but when there were . . . → Read More: 7 Tips For Helping Your Child Enjoy School More
By MummyWhisperer, on March 17th, 2011% Curly Headed Boy got hit by the dreaded tummy bug/virus on monday; I got the dreaded call ‘Mrs Pearson, could you collect your son from school please?” One part of me loves bugs. Once you are through the worst, you get to spend real chilled out time with your kids. BUT OMG day 2 is a nightmare! They are nearly better. So when they feel OK, they are bouncing off the walls, and then they suddenly crash and feel awful.
I think that many people don’t understand the 48hrs before your child returns to school after puking or having an upset tummy. It means TWO . . . → Read More: Tummy Bugs, Time frames, Happy Sick Days and Flannels
By MummyWhisperer, on March 16th, 2011% Hi Guys,
Welcome to my new slot ‘Video Wed’. Now normally I’m expecting this to be quick little videos to cheer you up, make you laugh, or inspire you. But every now and again I might add something different, and that’s how I’m starting.
I saw this video last night and was transfixed. For a start I love these cartoon videos (in fact I have one of the way myself), but also the information in it was so thought provoking about how our education systems are failing us and the ‘ADHD epidemic’. It’s controversial, and had me thinking that I need to drag Curly Headed . . . → Read More: Video Wed: Thought Provoking Cartoon About Education
By MummyWhisperer, on March 15th, 2011% So I mentioned a while back that Curly Headed boy wasn’t happy at school and had lost confidence. I’m going to summarise all the steps I took to help him out next week. But first I want to talk about the final option in a bit more detail.
Now I’m not a ‘pushy’ mum, as I don’t panic about not starting Curly Headed Boy in piano immediately because he is 5, or that he must be able to speak Japanese by the time he is 6. But maybe I was a bit wrong to not give him something extra outside of school. My thinking was . . . → Read More: Giving your children confidence by focussing outside of school
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