Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Never thought I’d download a kid’s app like this…..

    I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to kids apps and often boast ‘you’ll only find educational apps on my phone/ipad’.  I even have them in folders; Literacy, Numeracy, Big Books, etc.  You won’t find Angry Birds, Ninja Fruit or any farting animals! However, during the school holidays, I started to look for…

  • Meal Planning Monday – 15 April 2013

    My daughter has now been off school for 18 days!  18 WHOLE DAYS!  I’m gagging for her to get back to school tomorrow and a semblance of a routine restored.  Her school had an inset today (just what we needed after two weeks off),  but  she was still supposed to go to child-care but threw…

  • Silent Sunday – 14 April 2013

  • Win a Girl’s Designer dress from Château de Sable

    We received this gorgeous girl’s dress from Château de Sable, who offer a chic collection of French children’s designer clothes,  a couple of months ago.  My 5 year old has been desperate to wear it but as you know the weather hasn’t been very agreeable, which is an understatement, it’s been downright awful.  It came…

  • Rise of the One-Child Family

    According to most places, we are not a family, as there are only 3 of us!  Even though recent research shows that nearly half of families are one-child affairs. I always feel snubbed, I may be hypersensitive but get totally hacked off when I see ‘Group Save’ but must be for a party of 5 and families…

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