Welcome to Week 2 of my Healthy Me Challenge. How did you go? Are you on the way to a brand new and improved you? Have you only just stumbled across the ‘Healthy Me Challenge’? Catch up Week 1 here and then come straight back, you have weight to lose and a soul to nourish! Before we go on I…
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Landscaping Natural Playspaces for Children – Our Progress so far…
I spent 2014 sharing a lot about our outdoor play and the natural playspaces we have worked on for my family day care business. I always receive a lot of questions about our spaces and how we think up what we do so I thought it might be nice at the start of 2015 to reflect upon what we have achieved, how…
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The Healthy Me Challenge – Week One
As I sit here writing this blog New Year’s Eve is upon us and 2014 is soon to be over. Although I feel I achieved a lot this year there is one thing that just keeps weighing me down (pun intended)…instead of losing weight through dieting and exercising as I promised myself to do, I actually put it on! This…
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I’m an early childhood educator so why don’t I look after my own children everyday?
As I walked in the gate of my twins preschool the other morning I was wearing my own family daycare care shirt complete with logo. I like to present myself as a professional educator at all times but that’s not the only reason I was wearing my work shirt. I was wearing it because I had exactly 15 minutes…
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I’m a Mum…and this is my addiction…
Hi, my name is Jodie, Mum to a teen and twins…..and I have an addiction. I know it’s not good for me, I know I can’t sustain it forever, but at this moment in time I know beyond a doubt that I NEED it! Yes my friends….I might be an early childhood educator and Mum but I have an addiction…
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10 Reasons why I’m NOT sending my twins to school yet….
As the end of the year speeds towards us I seem to be answering the same question over and over ….. Are your girls going to school next year? Quickly followed by a sharp intake of breath when I say “no, they will be doing another year in their preschool room”. I haven’t been asked a question so much since…
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