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When Bilingual Kids Go on Language Strike – 6 Do’s and Don’ts

We have been back in Edinburgh for just over half a year now, and since today is International Mother Language Day, I wanted to share an update on how we are doing bringing up our kids with two languages. I’ve

21 February 2018
Lifestyle

Playground Accidents – A Baptism of Fire

Accidents happen, even to the most vigilant parents. SPOILER: Everything is fine! It was only a matter of time. My older son (age 6.5) is quiet, thoughtful, introverted. He does move through the day in constant motion, reminiscent of the Duracell

4 September 2017
Lifestyle

How to Organise Jigsaw Puzzles

My boys are both really in to doing puzzles, so today I'm sharing some tips with you on how I organise our jigsaw puzzles. My biggest bugbear is these kinds of puzzles (see above) that just come on a sheet of cardboard

13 June 2017
Lifestyle

‘When Love Takes Its Time’

This week, it's Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week. Research suggests that as many as 1 in 5 women who give birth in the UK and the US each year will be affected by a maternal mental health disorder. And yet,

2 May 2017
Lifestyle

{Home Tour} Shared Kids Rooms

Today, I'm going to share a little glimpse of our apartment with you. I frequently feature pics of our playroom on Instagram, and have been asked a few times now if I would write a bit more about our kids'

4 April 2017
Lifestyle

A Guilty Pleasure – Solo Travel Without My Kids

I’ve written before about travelling solo with my kids, i.e. without my husband. It’s challenging, but fun. Most of the time. Today I want to talk to you about another kind of solo travel which is also fun – the

15 March 2017
Lifestyle

5 Tips for Nurturing Language in Kids

Today is International Mother Language Day, a worldwide observance held annually on 21st February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It reminded me, that it's been a while since I wrote about bilingual parenting. Although I

21 February 2017
Lifestyle

5 Reasons I Fell Out of Love With Winter

I love Winter. I’m a cold weather person through and through. My unnecessarily large collection of knitwear and wooly hats will attest to that. And unlike most people I know, the prospect of months and months of subzero temperatures and

14 February 2017
Lifestyle

Another Milestone Mastered

So, I'm back from my summer vacation. With one kid less than I started out with. *Spoiler Alert* EVERYTHING IS FINE! My older son just decided that since he is a big boy now - he's graduated from nursery and will

16 August 2016
Lifestyle

To my son on his last day of nursery

To my Darling Boy - Today I picked you up from your nursery for the last time (or Kita, as we call it here). For the past four years and eight months you have been going there almost every day, apart from

29 July 2016
Journal

Travelling with Kids: a little Scottish Adventure

Last week, I shared some thoughts about travelling solo with my kids. We just got back from our week in Scotland, and I've put together a little account of our trip from the diary I kept while we were away

7 July 2016
Lifestyle

Thoughts on…travelling solo with my kids

I've travelled alone with my kids many times before. The first time, was when we moved to Berlin. The husband had gone ahead of us six weeks before, and I had to make my own way with a baby, a

29 June 2016
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