Mediocre Mum

Tag: kids

  • Slow Cooker Chicken and Couscous

    Thanks to the lovely Victoria Roberts (@starPS) who shared this slow cooker recipe with me.  She’s very keen to share no nonsense meals that kids will devour and my family did! ‘This one is a staple in my house,  my mates (and their various offspring) request it often…its my kids fave too!  Dead easy.’ Ingredients…

  • Kid’s Ipad App Review: Word Wall HD

    When I was at school we learned the alphabet by singing the alphabet song but this  a major ‘no-no’ now, as it is all done by phonics. Even though I’m a former teacher the whole phonemes, word families and CVC words is all a bit of a mystery to me, as I taught slightly older…

  • Labelling kids clothes made easy!

    My daughter only started school in Sept and I’m already starting to get hacked off with the number of items of clothing we’ve already lost. I won’t mention the jacket she only wore once and coincidentally another child has the same one but the mum was adamant it wasn’t hers. A few people mentioned Sharpies,…

  • How to talk to a complete stranger?

    Nearly broke my heart today. My daughter asked to go to a soft play centre, which is equivalent to hell for me. However, in an attempt to be a good mother, I said no problem, but I explained that we would be going on our own and wouldn’t know anyone there. She said she wasn’t…

  • At what age do children become self conscious of how they look?

    Firstly, I must preface that this has nothing to do with the particular parent, child or their parenting skills.  It could have been any child even my own. We were at a Christmas party on the weekend.  There was a pretty little 4-year old girl in a lovely party dress.  She accidentally spilled a glass…