Finding games that can get the whole family involved can be difficult at times. With so many children, we often have to get into teams or pair up when it comes to a multiplayer game due to the fact that many games only go up to four players. Card games such as… Read More
When people meet me now they are often surprised to hear that English wasn’t my first language. The first few years of my life were spent living with my Greek-speaking grandparents and my parents (Greek father, Turkish mother) who had not long arrived from Turkey. It might sound complicated and unusual unless you… Read More
With so many young ones, we’ve recited the alphabet and sounded out words phonetically hundreds of times over the years. Most of them have begun reading quite quickly but not all of them have gone the traditional route of sitting with a book in order to practice letter and word recognition. Sid preferred building… Read More
In our house, no matter what time of day, you can usually find someone in our house reading a book. We have hundreds of them stacked across dozens of bookcases and shelves throughout the house, and we still don’t have room for them all. Shopping for us doesn’t mean impulsive buys for… Read More
Over the course of the last couple of years our boys have taken a keen interest in coding. With so much revolving around computers nowadays, from banking to games, learning coding basics was something they wanted to learn. Of course, they have yet to design an app (it’s harder than it looks!),… Read More
Having been in Italy for a few weeks now, we’ve put into use all of the necessary bits we had acquired before we left to keep everyone as happy and healthy as possible. With temperatures reaching as high as 39°, making sure we keep safe in the sun is important. We’ve gone through many… Read More