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Puppy School Stars doing it 'In Style'

It’s a Puppy School collab! Puppy School, Tewkesbury, Ledbury and Cheltenham and Puppy School Gloucester teamed up at the Cheltenham...

Kerrie

Jul 12, 20225 min read

September 2021- A date that always seemed so far away but came around so quickly. Now what?

It's time to live in the moment! When I made the decision to take a career break 6 years ago, it was always a temporary thing. It was...

Kerrie

Sep 18, 20215 min read

A mother’s instinct is rarely wrong. Our discovery of proprioception and vestibular processing.

People talk about mother’s instinct all the time, that feeling you get in your gut, driven by a gravitational pull to give your children...

Kerrie

Mar 30, 20217 min read

The new value of School

I’m still relatively new to this parenting thing. I’m only 5.5 years in. Although I guess having worked in education for 16 years before...

Kerrie

Jan 17, 20214 min read

Is my little girl liking 'boys stuff' becoming a self fulfilling prophecy?

Disclaimer: This is a real life, real time story about the experiences we are having as a family and is written for the purposes of a...

Kerrie

Sep 1, 20205 min read

Back to school nerves- I'm always late to the party with parenting anxiety.

Throughout the coronavirus crisis and the weeks of google classroom and homeschooling the girls, I’ve had an end goal in site- getting...

Kerrie

May 29, 20205 min read

My Homeschooling Reality. What it's really like to be a Mummy right now.

If someone had told me this time last year we would be living through something like this, I’d have thought they were a fantasist and...

Kerrie

Apr 2, 20206 min read

Potty Training Pressure.

Being a parent comes with so much pressure, some of it we put on ourselves and some from other parents, people or society in general. I...

Kerrie

Feb 23, 20204 min read

There is nowhere to go to compare with your imagination, go there, be free, if you really wish to be

I remember my Professor of education saying to me during my degree, when I had realised I had a passion for psychology and child...

Kerrie

Feb 19, 20205 min read

When our children are naturally happy do we take it for granted, or should we reward them for it?

Sometimes life really does make me laugh. Little events perfectly coincide and the outcome is so ironic it smacks you in the face. This...

Kerrie

Jan 20, 20205 min read

When you are a parent it is easy to cherish the memories, but so hard to cherish the moment.

Like all parents, my children are my reason. Everything I do, I do for them. My aspirations and dreams are mostly focused around them...

Kerrie

Dec 31, 20195 min read

Why Everyone Should Try ((BOUNCE)) Hatherley

I'm not writing this from the point of view of someone who loves health and fitness (although if you are someone who does, ((BOUNCE))...

Kerrie

Nov 26, 20194 min read

Would you risk your own safety to help someone in need?

This one is a bit off topic, but does fit in with my mantra that everyone has a story to tell and how telling your story can be so...

Kerrie

Sep 30, 20194 min read

Parenting challenges. Accepting that your children will experience negative emotion

And there is nothing we can do about it. I’m certain that I’m not the only parent in the world that given the choice would wrap their...

Kerrie

Sep 10, 20194 min read

I'd been a Mum for less than 24 hours and everything, suddenly went wrong. My Sepsis Story.

This memory came up on my Facebook feed today and it brought everything back to me. They say that when you’ve suffered sepsis it has a...

Kerrie

Aug 6, 20195 min read

What Kind Of Children Am I Actually Raising? I'm glad I Know This Is Normal.

Daily I’m having to remind myself that my toddler and pre-schooler being selfish isn’t their fault (or mine), it is totally normal and...

Kerrie

Jul 17, 20194 min read

Am I the most emotional Mum at the school gates? The end of Kindergarten.

We’ve hit another major milestone. My daughter has all but finished her kindergarten (pre-school) year and I feel really emotional about...

Kerrie

Jun 21, 20193 min read

This may be a bit brutal, but it really is meant to be light hearted. My weight loss and my body.

The pictures say it all! Everybody talks about the many positive effects of losing a lot of weight, but rarely do you hear about the...

Kerrie

Jun 6, 20193 min read

I do care that people think I'm a good Mum...

I pride myself on being quite a level headed person, wife and mummy. I like to think I can navigate my way through all the trials and...

Kerrie

May 15, 20193 min read

Positive behaviour management, my perfectly imperfect approach.

I received an email from BabyCentre yesterday titled ‘tips to encourage positive behaviour’. My immediate thought was, 'oh my, BabyCentre...

Kerrie

Feb 6, 20194 min read