For a peaceful home, for a peaceful world
Oops, it’s been well over a week since my last post. I feel like sometimes I really get into the groove of blogging, and manage a post every few days, and then my mojo goes and I have to force myself to start typing. Earlier this week Frida and I visited the Wonderlab at the…
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I haven’t set up any specific matching work for Frida for a while, as I was struggling to think of something which would be suitably challenging (she’s tended to find colour matching and card to object / object to object matching work quite easy). To be honest, I’ve not set up a huge amount of…
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This year Frida made a few simple Valentine’s cards to send. It was a very lovely activity to do together. Last week we prepared some paper to use. Frida made a glittery collage (crayons, glitter glue, pink hole-punch litter) and painted some water colours to use as a base for the cards. Whilst painting she…
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Life lately has been pancakes for breakfast. Baking, often. Long stretches of child-led play. Cold walks with mittens and hats, spotting the first signs of spring and road-testing a new balance bike. Planning. Piles of books snuggled under the duvet. Deliberations about naps – to drop, or not to drop? To wake, or not to…
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After putting it off for ages (we don’t have the space! It will be messy! The cat will eat the snacks!) I have finally sorted out a snack station for Frida. It’s important to me that she can get food for herself if she is hungry without having to rely on us, and I think…
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Frida is 21 months, and does very little in the way of working with traditional Montessori materials at the moment. She’s outgrown her infant materials, and is still too young for most materials geared towards the 3-6 plane of development. What she does do a lot of, though, is practical life, which I believe to…
Read MoreUsually Frida used white card or paper as a background to her art (except of course her backboard). I thought it would make a nice change to present her with black card as it is such a striking material to use. As this was the first time she had used it I stuck to offering…
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Every week I try and take Frida somewhere a bit different, as a change from our local parks and playgrounds and cafes. It could be as simple as going to a city farm, or visiting family in another town, or making the most of London’s many world-class museums and galleries, most of which are free.…
Read MoreWe often go to the farm – last year when the weather was still mild we used to go every other week at least. We haven’t been much recently though as our favourite farm (Vauxhall) has a closed cafe until mid-February, and honestly getting a coffee and relaxing a bit is an important part of…
Read MoreTwenty-one months today. I feel like we are speeding towards two! She is talking more and more like a child and less like a toddler now, with longer and more complex sentences and confidence to use more challenging words in context like pandemonium and magnificent. We cling on to her sweet mispronounciations, aware that they…
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