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A Review The first thing that struck me when this cd arrived was the beautiful packaging. The Land of Sometimes moves away from standard cd casing, instead presenting it as a book with captivating illustrations. Each song has an illustrated page in the storybook encouraging the children to follow the story. I had high hopes Read more

My 3 year old has recently become pre-occupied with monsters, sometimes she is a monster, sometimes there is a monster in the room but she mentions them at least once a day. I was fairly sure that this was a developmental stage connected with how young children make sense of the world . She has Read more

The bedroom door opens and a loud and enthusiastic voice proudly announces that she has opened her own door. She attempts to climb over everyone in the bed  asks for covers and then announces that she is hungry and wants breakfast. We are lucky if we get breakfast on the table without a shriek of Read more

Love to Learn is a new CBeebies schedule aimed at helping young children to learn about literacy and numeracy. There are a few new programmes and some old favourites for a half an hour slot every weekday morning.

After picking up the after school debris which had been dumped in my hallway for the umpteenth time, I suddenly realised that my young children weren’t really to blame for not hanging up their things as our adult coat hooks were difficult for them to reach. I put up new low level, child-friendly coat hooks, along with space for book bags Read more