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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

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Home Ed Maven | Stroke Survivor
I am also @McDayDesignsUK

One of those mornings where, you really 'want' to One of those mornings where, you really 'want' to be productive, but you're operating on 2 hours sleep, a single cup of coffee and the four remaining brain cells you own. 😂

Got my witchy music mix on, and trying to motivate myself to make a plan for the day. 

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When the possibilities are endless... but so is yo When the possibilities are endless...
but so is your 'To-Do' list! 🤣

Another fun day of chasing 5 medical appointments, diary management and 
trying to plan our Year 10 home ed work.

Send coffee!! ☕

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Short chapters. A gentle mystery. Animal friends w Short chapters.
A gentle mystery.
Animal friends working things out together.

Designed for calm evening reading. 🌙

Would your child read this independently, or with you?

Mixy The Garden Detective: The Mystery of the Midnight Glow, now available on Amazon in paperback, and on Kindle Unlimited.

Link in bio.

#mixythegardendetective #mysteryofthemidnightglow
 #Author #kidsbooks #CozyBedtime #cozymysteries #mumlifeuk #ukchildrensbooks
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So, I may have accidentally written a children’s b So, I may have accidentally written a children’s book. Or three.

It turns out my little writing project to try and stretch my post-stroke creative muscles, morphed into a small series about a curious tuxedo cat called Mixy, a nervous mouse called Pip, and a tiny lantern keeper named Luma, a Glowling who lives behind the garden shed.

The first book is called Mixy the Garden Detective: The Mystery of the Midnight Glow and it is now live on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle Unlimited.

The chapters are short on purpose. Properly short. The kind where “one more chapter pleeease” really does mean five more minutes, not a full bedtime renegotiation. 

Each chapter also has a natural stopping point, which makes it ideal for calm evening reading, or for children beginning to read longer stories on their own.

It’s gentle, cosy, slightly mysterious, and in addition to Mixy, Pip and Luma, it involves a grumpy toad, a cool beetle, and a very determined magpie.

So if you know a small human aged about 5 to 9 who likes animals, secret doors, tiny magical creatures, or gardens that are clearly keeping secrets after dark, I would be very grateful if you shared it with them.

Link in bio before I lose my nerve and pretend I never mentioned this.

And yes, Mixy is a real cat. 
She has, to the best of my knowledge, never solved a mystery and would be terrified of a mouse. 😉

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