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This is learning. This is entertainment. . Parents often feel obliged to ‘continue the learning’ (and avoid ‘the learning gap’) over the summer holidays. Parents also feel obliged to entertain their children, with planned activities and days out....they don’t need to do either. . Just because they have six weeks out of a classroom, it doesn’t mean kids stop learning, in fact they can learn WAY more about the world and how it (and they) work by ‘just’ playing. They don’t need printed maths problem worksheets, spelling practice or Biff, Chip and Kipper to learn. If we think that’s what learning is, then we’re more messed up than ever. . Kids don’t need endless planned activities or expensive days out for entertainment. Boredom is *wonderful* for them. It makes them use their imagination (that so often they don’t get chance to use at school). It interests them in nature, it inspires play. . . This summer holiday, scrap the ‘continued learning’ and resist the urge to fill every day. Let them be bored, let them play, let them be children in a world that is increasingly forcing them to lose sense of what childhood really should be. . . . #summerholidays #schoolholidays #schoolsoutforsummer #summerholidayactivities #summerholidayfun #sarahockwellsmith #gentleparenting #unschooling #homeschooling #freerangelearning #schooloflife #childhoodunplugged #natureplay #consciousparenting #mindfulparenting #indefenceofboredomWhen we tell children “you can have some chocolate/ice cream/cake IF you eat up all your dinner”, what we’re actually doing is encouraging them to overeat and making sweet food seem like a treat, which also encourages the child to over-indulge in them when they finally get to eat them. . . . #gentleeating #gentleeatingbook #instinctiveeating #intuitiveeating #intuitiveeatingjourney #intuitiveeater #toddlereats #toddlereating #familyfood #weaning #babyledweaning #gentleparenting #mindfulparenting #mindfuleating #mindfuleats #attachmentparenting #instinctiveparenting #peacefulparentingIs it a box? Or is it an earthquake personal protection device? A time-travel pod? A portable camping bedroom? . If you have a child aged 7-14, with a vivid imagination and a desire to change the world for the better. A child who is a natural inventor, a STEM superstar or an engineer, then you should absolutely check out the Young Imagineers competition. . In collaboration with The Science Museum, and sponsored by Equinor, the competition is a nationwide search to find Britain's most imaginative and creative young people. Children aged 7-14 are being tasked with coming up with an invention to make tomorrow's world a better place. To enter, children need to submit a simple sketch and 100 words explaining their invention. . Find out more at: www.youngimagineers.equinor.com . . . #STEM #childrenintoSTEM #littlescientist #littleinventor #summerholidayentertainment #summerholidayactivities #ad #kidsloveboxesAnyone else struggling with ‘end of the school year itis? . I hate this time of year, I feel like we’re all slowly limping, or pulling ourselves along the floor on our bellies, towards Friday’s finishing line. I’m tired, grouchy, under the weather, can’t think straight (not good when I have a book to finish this week - this picture is literally me right now!), the heat is stopping me from sleeping well so I’m absolutely shattered. The kids are tired and grumpy, we’re all snapping at each other. Plus in their wisdom, school have thrown in numerous productions, activity days, dressing up days and the like (WHY do they put these things in the last week? Is it out of spite, because it sure feels like it 😂). . Who’s with me, wishing it was 3:30pm Friday already? . . . #schoolholidays #endofterm #endoftermexhaustion #tiredmama #tiredmum #sarahockwellsmithTop Posts & Pages
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Getting to ‘Goodnight’ and Go
The goal is to tuck the child in, read them a story, give them a goodnight kiss and leave the bedroom shortly after, with the child still awake. Watch any film, soap or drama on TV and any bedtime will look exactly like this. The child sweetly replies with their “goodnight”, yawns, turns their head over on the pillow, eyes close and not a peep is heard from them until the next morning. Continue reading →
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