Planning school trips are not only ideal for their learning but there are many other benefits that come from taking children away to new places. It doesn’t matter if the trip is to a new country or not, the experience and learning will still be abundant. If you question whether or not you should […]
Contrary – 100 words
Contrary. Sunshine springtime, how glorious. This evening I’ll unspool the hose and twizzle its nozzle to drench rockery, fretful sproutlings, seeds, wildflower experiment, weary pot-dwellers. Hardly worth winding it back, this dry spell persists. Meanwhile: must kill the weeds. Mixing poison, pumping handle bites my palms and trigger finger spray, fatal drizzle for audacious opportunists. […]
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Problem solving skills are a key part of a child’s natural development. As they discover new things, experiences and more, a child is able to pick apart situations and solve the issues within them. It can be a really simple thing, like learning how to not spill over their drink, to more complex decisions later […]
Swallows – 100 words
Swallows. The pause year, when this was building site, they spat mud bricks under timber eaves and peacefully shat down unfinished walls. I moved in when they went to Africa – a cuckoo. In spring bird brains programmed to return. And return. Thwarted by slippery cladding: returned unnested, they found another perfect niche. A niche […]
Healing – 100 words
Healing. Sometimes when dramas and other people’s lost possession distract from tending the broken parts, things change. You, check, fleeting to find that new skin is fresh and pinkly smooth. Fine, that’s that, you say. And go about infatuations and reactions, habits clunking into place – a solid construction. Moving forward. But under the carapace […]