Parent Gossip

It’s Autumn already and the football is on the telly all the time and the Witchlings are back at school.  They are both obsessing about hockey and netball trials and set off to school with bags bulging with towels and tracksuits and netball skirts and football socks in preparation to do battle on the playing [...]

More and more children are suffering from ADHD and other behavioural problems and the number of children taking Ritalin is also on the rise. There may be many factors causing this. Too much screen time and not enough exercise, divorce, working parents, SATs and exam pressures… the list goes on. It is interesting though, that [...]

My friend, Angela, is in crisis. She is due to have her first baby in December and is getting increasingly worried about her carpets. Carpets? I would have thought she would have more to worry about, such as how on earth she is going to push a real live little person out [...]

As I said in my last post, Witchling 12 is off to Secondary School this week.  She’s worried, and excited and Tobes and I are nervous wrecks!  Here is our guide to helping your child make a smooth (or as smooth as possible) transition into secondary school.

•    Expect insecurity and everything that goes with it.  [...]

Witchling 12 is off to Secondary School this week. She was in a primary school in Sydney and was in year 6 until we came back to the UK. The education system over there allows children to start up to a year later than the current British system. Consequently, poor old Witchling [...]