For a peaceful home, for a peaceful world
We have lit the first Chanukah candle, Frida’s beautiful advent calendar is being gleefully opened by excited little fingers, elderberry syrup is being dutifully poured out each morning, and I have stocked up on thick yellow beeswax candles to light our meals on these slow, cozy days. Each night Frida’s bed is warmed by hot…
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Welcome to the second instalment of the Frida Be Mighty gift guide! Here is a selection of art and crafts materials that I am sure children would be delighted to receive and will enjoy all year round. It’s not an exhaustive list but I hope it will give you some ideas. A note before we…
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Welcome to the first instalment of the Frida Be Mighty gift guide! It is the season after all, and I am already getting more messages than I can reply to asking about gifts and suggestions. Over the course of the next couple of weeks I’m going to be sharing a number of posts with some…
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As I’ve spoken about before, we loosely follow the brilliant Exploring Nature With Children curriculum, dipping into it most weeks. I find that it gives me something to think about in terms of what we might be looking for on our nature walks and books to pull out to support this. This week focuses on the Harvest…
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Like all young children, Frida is pretty varied in her interests – from mice to microbes, she has a voracious appetite for learning new things. But every now and again, a topic comes along which leaves very little space in our reading for anything else. At the moment we are in the middle of such…
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Hello! It’s been a bit quiet over here on the blog recently as I’ve been beavering away on my courses – teaching my current Rhythm in the Home group, finishing off materials for A Beautiful Childhood which will start very soon, and finalising plans for two (!) brand new courses which I hope to launch…
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It feels like I can’t turn anywhere without seeing Frida Kahlo merchandise at the moment, due to the current exhibition at the V&A museum in London (which Frida and I will definitely visit together soon). We didn’t name our daughter Frida specifically because of Frida Kahlo, but the link obviously didn’t pass us by either.…
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Next week is bee week in Exploring Nature With Children and I’ve been really looking forward to it. Whatever we learn together about I always end up learning so much I didn’t know about the topic. Here are the books I’ve pulled out for us to read together this week: Flight of the Honey Bee Part…
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It’s June! I feel like it’s really crept up on me this year, as we’ve had such weird weather (a freezing start to the spring and then loads of thunderstorms and sticky, overcast days recently). But I’ve been excited to pull out our summer books and start thinking about our summer plans. Here are some…
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At the moment Frida can’t get enough of Gerda Muller’s books. I’m not surprised – Muller’s books are amazing. They all have a strong focus on the seasons and the natural world, featuring ponds, woods, gardens, farms, and balconies full of plants. They reflect a slower pace of childhood where children spend their holidays helping…
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