Holly Ruskin – writer, lecturer and co-founder of Blood Moon POETRY press – discusses her education at a private girls’ school and explains why she wants something different for her daughter…
education
Family
Tired of London’s fast pace, they took their six-year-old twins to travel around Latin America. Two years later, Dominic Chapman and Lindsay Green are still living abroad, homeschooling the twins. They told us all about their travels (and not having plans to return)…
Family
“Our approach to home education is very relaxed whereas some of our friends follow a more formal approach,” says Francesca. She talks us through their decision to homeschool, how they make it work and what friends and family think…
Family
Choosing a primary school for your child feels like such an important decision – it’s their first experience of formal learning. So what should you base your decision on? The editor, Annie Ridout, is feeling a little overwhelmed by it all…
Family
Parenthood is synonymous with decision-making and one of the biggies is schools. Next year’s application deadline – for the UK – is 15 January, so primary school teacher Eleanor Sapienza tells us what to look for in a school…
Mornings
The founder of holistic education company Tomato Tutors, Laura Alvarado is all about positivity and mantras. She shares hers and we talk Mondays – and the working week – with a young son and a puppy to look after…
Work Life
Frustrated by the lack of creative, smart, engaging toys on the market for kids, Sahar Meghani decided to create her own. And Trunkaroo – a monthly subscription service for kids’ STEM and art projects – was born…
Family
A toddler, a second baby on the way, running a business, a marathon-runner, working part time and completing a master’s degree… we ask Dominique Beach how it feels to be a student mum – juggling work, motherhood, hobbies and studying…
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For the second in our series on moving abroad, Johanna Derry speaks to artist and mother-of-three Laura Amiss about leaving the UK for Holland, where she’s lived for the past 13 years…
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Do bilingual children have delayed language development? Is it better to become fluent in one language first? What does bilingualism actually mean? We speak to a linguist, and to parents raising their children bilingually…