Faith in Kids

Our first ever family holiday abroad to France with 4 young children required a significant amount of planning – flights, car hire, travel insurance, health cards, passports, finding four booster seat backpacks on eBay. All that was before I even got to sun cream, clothing, swimming kits, acti…

“Let’s talk about sex!” – It’s very unlikely that your parents ever started a conversation with you using those words. It’s also very unlikely that you’ve ever said those words to your children. It probably wouldn’t be the best way of starting to talk …

“It’s not my fault … she started it.” Words familiar to almost any parent. Every child has an instinctive desire to blame others - whether it’s the 4-year old, who’s just knocked his best friend to the ground (“He took my special car.”) or the 14 year…

We’re playing a lot of Uno in our house at the moment. We’ve never been big on board games or card games, but the 9 year old is having an ‘Uno’ phase. It feels like I’ve spent more time in the past 3 months matching colours and numbers on cards, than in the rest of my l…

Paul Tripp says “A moment of crisis is a moment of ministry”. This is particularly true in parenting. When a child is in tears, when something has gone wrong, they look to us, as parents, to fix it. And our natural instinct will be to stop the pain – to give them something to make …

Light nights, long days, SATS over … It’s been a long half term and we’ve all had enough. HOORAY FOR HALF TERM BREAK! Until, perhaps, 10.30am on Tuesday, when we realise we are the same people with the same arguments / issues - just perhaps in a different / more beautiful location…

So the journey to Easter Sunday has begun, we’ve bought the book, we’ve fought for time and started enthusiastically – but we’re just not sure we can keep it up! Here are some low lights from different families… “My toddler son punched his big sister in the fac…

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The shops are already filled with chocolate eggs and fluffy chicks and straw bonnets, Pancake Day is just around the corner, Easter is on the way! How will your family celebrate Easter this year? Egg hunt, lamb roast, chocolate for breakfast, and just generally too much chocolate? Wouldn’t it …

We are waiting with baited breath for the big day. What will the John Lewis advert be? A man on the moon, a badger on a trampoline, a penguin? The hype is real. How will the others compare? Is Kevin the carrot from Aldi really going to make it? Will M&S pull themselves back and bring the magic a…