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• RAISING MULTILINGUAL CHILDREN: Mandarin progress
  on May 25, 2013 in Mandarin multilingual products
  To help with the kids' burgeoning Mandarin, I bought one of those talking pens online, along with a few of the books. After a bit of research, we picked the e-Readbook system and it's great, has plenty of books to go with it and is super simple to us...
• Black Children's Cartoons
  on May 14, 2013 in DVDs black cartoons
  Schmoo with two of our favourite cartoonsCartoons featuring Black heroes have traditionally been thin on the ground, but there are more & more springing up lately, filling a much-needed gap for our kids. I've gathered all the ones I've discovered...
• Pushy parenting
  on May 5, 2013 in raising bilingual children
  Schmoo practises her violinThese days we see a lot of articles about the negative effect of pushing children too much. There's just so much on offer now, and it's tempting to enrol your kids in lots (and lots!) of classes. I have to hold up my hand a...
• KID'S CRAFTS: Melting bead dice
  on Apr 29, 2013 in children's crafts
  This is a good craft for a rainy day. Teaches attention to detail!Step 1: Print the template from Pinterest >> MoonAtNoon websiteStep 2: CopyStep 3: Iron (over protective grease-proof paper)Step 4: Click the shapes together following the instru...
• KID'S CRAFTS: Melting bead bowls
  on Apr 27, 2013 in children's crafts
  This is a wonderful craft that produces a very pretty bowl in moments! And because it's so easy, kids can most of the prep themselves. I have lost a glass bowl to melting beads before, so I've learnt to be very careful about greasing the bowl well, a...
• RAISING BILINGUAL CHILDREN: Best posts
  on Apr 20, 2013 in minority language minority culture bilingual children raising bilingual children language
  My most beautiful postRESOURCES: Should I speak a non-native language with my child?After being riddled with doubt & worry, we decided to go for it... shakily. My resolve was rocked many times along the way, but now it feels as though we have gon...
• BILINGUAL MOMENTS: 'I love reading'!
  on Apr 13, 2013 in books reading language
  Today Pan-Pan said those magical words, 'I love reading'! This is after a year or so of him hating it, to the point where he would hide his reading books, so I'm thrilled! We had a breakthrough, when he suddenly realised he could easily read one of h...
• Plushkies!
  on Apr 5, 2013 in global citizens
  I've just come across Plushkies, which are utterly huggable soft toys, each one in the shape of a country and so help even very young children understand a bit more about the world. It's an ingenious idea and so when they asked me to take part in the...
• REVIEW: African Musical Instruments Book
  on Mar 30, 2013 in reviews books children's books
  I've been sent a PDF of a new book to review and as it is just wonderful, I wanted to share it with you! It's called African Musical Instruments Book.It has a nice multi-coloured cover to get you in the mood. Inside there is information about differe...
• CRAFT ACTIVITIES: Make a book
  on Mar 22, 2013 in crafts children's crafts
  This craft activity was prompted by a competition to make a book of at least 4 pages long to celebrate Quentin Blake's 80th birthday. I loved this idea, as we all very much enjoy books in our house! And in the age of the Kindle, it was really special...

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