Mediocre Mum

Tag: kids

  • Top 7 Things to Take on a Long Haul Flight for Kids

    There is actually only a certain length of time a child is capable of sitting still. Constrain that child by putting them on a plane for 10 hours and then expect them not to complain about it, is a big ask. Being from Canada, once a year I fly ‘home’ with my husband and our…

  • Pure Genius! Personalized Cup Bands for Kid’s Drinking Bottles

      Do you ever see something and think why the h*ll didn’t I think of that.  I don’t know how many of my daughter’s drinking cups we have lost through the years.  When she was younger, if I had two the same Sippy cups but different colours, I’d switch the tops so they would stand…

  • 9 Fun Things to do with Strawberries

    Did you know that there are 35 varieties of British Strawberries and that the average strawberry has 200 seeds on them?  Fascinating stuff.  My daughter likes nothing better than eating strawberries straight out of the punnet.  Now that they are coming into season here in the UK, I found myself this afternoon, instead of catching…

  • The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

    Once a teacher always a teacher? Not sure what possessed me, whether it’s because I won’t let her have a dog or she doesn’t have any siblings, but at Christmas I bought her a Live Butterfly Garden.  In the box, you get the net, all the instructions plus a certificate to order your baby caterpillars when…

  • Glamping Holidays in Devon near the beach

    You know when you go on holiday and you just want to get home to your own bed?  This wasn’t one of those holidays.  I would have loved to stay longer. We didn’t go away last half term so we were hoping to have a short trip this break.  We started to troll the net…