This post is by regular contributor Tricia Hogbin of Little Eco Footprints. We’re moving house at the end of the year. The move will be associated with a lot of change for my five year old daughter. She’ll be finishing preschool and starting school, moving from an urban area to a rural one, leaving behind […]
10 Tips for Cultivating a Happy Home
I’m a lover of lists. Give me a to-do list with its own little tick box and I am blissfully happy. I especially like to start my list with a really simple task, like have a cup of tea, just to get some momentum. With three little ladies on the go, being a Mumma, a […]
A Family Kitchen Renovation Story
As some of you who follow Childhood 101 on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram know, we decided to add a kitchen renovation to our long list of things to do before baby. It is something that we have wanted to do for a while but when it came down to the actual doing…the decision was made […]
Tree House Dreams
This post is by regular contributor Catherine Oehlman aka SquiggleMum. My dream home is a tree house. Yes, a tree house! Forget about giving me a home among the gumtrees… I want a home IN the gumtrees. I want to reach out and touch the leaves, watch the birds, and feel the breeze blowing through […]
Our Play Space: Lily’s Special Spaces
A peek inside a readers play space… At our place we don’t really have a single space large enough to dedicate as a ‘playroom’ for our 2 year old daughter, so I try and incorporate a learning environment in each of our living areas. I also do things like store library books and puzzles inside […]
Dreaming of a Family Home
This post is by regular contributor Kate Fairlie of Picklebums. When we moved to our little rural property we already had 18 month old twins and were planning on having more children, so we knew that we’d have to do a major renovation one day. Right then and there we started planning and dreaming and […]
Our Play Space: The Stuff With Thing Playroom
A peek inside a reader’s play space… Having two girls with special needs can be demanding and one high priority when we were looking for a new place to live was that they have a dedicated play space. Preferrably a large space, so sensory seeking Heidi (who is 6 years old) could still be her […]
Tips for Cleaning House with Young Children in Tow
Immy cleaning her bathroom shower screen with a Viva Shower Fast Wipe I am a big believer in involving young children in household chores (that are suitable to their level of development) as I believe that these early experience can help to instill positive habits for healthy living for many years to come. And toddlers […]
Everyday Learning at Home
If you watch and listen carefully you will find lots of spontaneous opportunities for everyday learning all around your home. Like rainbows in the vegetable patch. Or delicious fresh corn that you grew yourself. Not to mention the plethora of creatures who reside there with you. And these everyday learning opportunities lead to lots of […]
Pretend Play in Our Home Corner Play Space
I know we are blessed to have a playroom in our house (we traded location for space with our last move) but even when we lived in a smaller home I always tried to find a space (albeit on a much smaller scale) for home corner play as it is such an important part of […]
