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How to Encourage Reading in Home Education

Home Education, Parent Life / Mrs PPP
How to Encourage Reading in Home Education: Keeping Books Alive in the Digital Age

Reading is at the heart of successful home education in the UK. It builds curiosity, confidence, and focus in ways screens can’t match. For many UK home-educating families, the challenge is keeping reading alive in a world filled with devices.

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Home Education, Parent Life

Five Herbal Teas You Will Need This Autumn

Holistic Living, Recipes / Mrs PPP

Feeling that first tickle of a cold? Before you reach for shop-bought remedies, try what’s in your kitchen cupboard.

These simple herbal teas really work, and they’re backed by evidence, not old wives’ tales.

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Holistic Living, Recipes

The Truth About Socialisation in Home Education

Homeschool, Parent Life / Mrs PPP

When people hear that a family home educates, one of the first questions they ask is, “But what about socialisation?” It’s often said with genuine concern. The assumption is that without school, children miss out on learning how to get along with others, build friendships, and have fun. But is that really true?

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Homeschool, Parent Life

Exclusive Raider’s Peril Minecraft Challenge

Homeschool, Parent Life / Mrs PPP
Minecraft-Raiders-Peril-Challenge

There is a consensus that, for a lot of parents and kids, this is just massively overwhelming, and a lot of really fantastic parents are beating themselves up for not facing every learning day with a smile and enthusiasm. Maybe it’s just time to say: ‘Give me a break – school at home is HARD!’

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Homeschool, Parent Life

Hospital Bag Series – Part 4

Hospital Bag / Mrs PPP
Hospital Bag Series Part 4

Now that you have your bags, we need to focus on what to pack in them so that you can be comfortable during your time on the ward with your child.

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Hospital Bag Series – Part 3

Hospital Bag / Mrs PPP
Hospital Bag Series Part 3

Now that you have your bags, we need to focus on what to pack in them so that you can be comfortable during your time on the ward with your child.

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Hospital Bag Series – Part 2

Hospital Bag / Mrs PPP
Hospital Bag Series Part 2

Now that you have your bags, we need to focus on what to pack in them so that you can be comfortable during your time on the ward with your child.

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Hospital Bag Series – Part 1

Hospital Bag / Mrs PPP
Hospital Bag Series Part 1

When packing for the hospital it is often hard to know what to take. Pack too much and you risk having to work around it during your stay. Pack too little and the inconvenience can be far greater. As a hospital stay regular, I have put together this guide that may help you make some informed choices about what to include in your bag.

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Dear Hospital Mummy

Hospital Bag, Parent Life / Mrs PPP
Dear Hospital Mummy

I would ask you how your day has been Hospital Mummy, but from your tired eyes and rigidly held shoulders, I can see that today has been a trying day

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Hospital Bag, Parent Life

The Day Your Child Is Rushed To Hospital

Hospital Bag, Parent Life / Mrs PPP
The day your child is rushed to hospital

You get off the phone and cry; silently so your child cannot hear you. This is not the way you thought a trip to the hospital would go; you don’t know what you expected – but it wasn’t ‘this’.

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Hospital Bag, Parent Life

Don’t be Anti-Social

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SEND Mum | Wife | Aussie in the UK.
Creative | Blogger | Full-Time Reading Obsessive
Home Ed Maven | Stroke Survivor
I am also @McDayDesignsUK

We were going to take all the Christmas decoration We were going to take all the Christmas decorations down this weekend, pack it away for another year. But honestly, we're just too demotivated to do it. Besides, the fairylights on the tree makes the place look pretty. 

So f*ck it. It can all stay up another week. 

The world is a dark enough place right now, without taking away twinkly lights and visual joy.

#christmastime #demotivated #mumlife❤️ #parentlife
Today, ‘From Overwhelmed to Organised’ goes live n Today, ‘From Overwhelmed to Organised’ goes live now!

You can find it on my store for £7.99 - link in bio.

Comment 'Overwhelmed' below, for an exclusive code giving you 20% off as a launch day special deal. ❤

#sendparentsuk #hospitalparent #medicalparentinguk #mcdaydesigns #chronicillnesslife #familyadmin #disabledparenting #ukparents #CareCoordination #realparentlife #fromoverwhelmedtoorganised #plotsplansandparenthood
Can we talk about fear for a minute? It's not a ne Can we talk about fear for a minute? It's not a new thing to me; as a 'hospital Mum', it's been a close companion for almost 14 years. It's familiar, but it's never been a barrier to getting things done.

Until now. 

I have had a digital product ready to launch for about 5 months now, under my @mcdaydesignsuk brand. It's a guide to creating the medical admin system that I have been using, almost daily, for 3 years, the system that literally changed how much time I had to spend on medical/SEND/life admin. 

I know it will help people, lots of people - my fellow spoonies, hospital parents, SEND parents, families just like mine. It's why I created it. 

I needed help, and there was none, so I came up with something. 
I have had people beta-testing it for months to make sure it works. 
The feedback has been incredible. 
Rave reviews.

And yet, it sits on my laptop, where it can do no-one but me any good. 

When I stopped to think about why, the answer was simple. 

I am scared!

What if people hate it?
What if people don't want to pay for it?
What if people think I've got it wrong?

Today, after some very strong coffee and some very stern lectures to myself, I decided that fear is no excuse not to launch this.
If something helped me survive the chaos, it might help someone else breathe a bit easier. 

That is reason enough to put it out there.

So this is me doing the big, scary, terrifying thing. 
Quietly. Honestly. Without drama.

If it helps you, brilliant.
If it is not for you, that is fine too.

But it deserves to exist outside my laptop.

From Overwhelmed to Organised will be live tomorrow. <3 

I will pop a discount code up tomorrow morning for 20% off too; consider it a bonus for listening to me ramble. 

#sendparentsuk #hospitalparent #medicalparentinguk #mcdaydesigns #chronicillnesslife #familyadmin #disabledparenting #ukparents #CareCoordination #realparentlife #fromoverwhelmedtoorganised #plotsplansandparenthood
I will not be writing down resolutions for the com I will not be writing down resolutions for the coming year. 

While some people find them motivating, I find them restrictive and wholly demotivating. 

I am firmly moving into my 'late Mother to early Crone', take-no-crap, ‘we do not care’, quasi-villain era. So, 'welcome', or, 'you've been warned', take your pick. 

This should be, interesting.

#newyear2026 #resolutions #witchesofinstagram
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