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Fifteen-Minute Field Trips
‘Tell me and I will forget: show me and I may remember: involve me and I will understand.’ Confucius Some of the most robust learning…
Expanding the World with Science
Even more than school, it is the home that is the seedbed of curiosity and wonder. When you set aside a few moments a week to do in-home science…
What diet is best?
‘Eat this eat that, don’t eat this don’t eat that’ advice is every where but who do we listen to? I have been a…
Teenagers Wellbeing
This issue we will focus on older children’s health. Teenagers suddenly find themselves in a phase of whirling emotions from…
Summer Days
Sunny diet
Summer is a good time to lighten up the whole family’s diet. Raw foods and salads are great foods for this time. I like to…
Spring Renewal
Spring seemed to come earlier this year for many of us. In spring mother nature wakes up after winter and begins sprouting and growing. Energy moves…
Spring Cleaning
As we are now moving seasonally into spring it is appropriate to look at spring cleaning of the body. Cleansing is often referred to as the basis of…
Simple Ayurvedic tips for enhancing your family’s wellbeing
Ayurveda is a holistic system of healing which evolved among the Brahmin sages of ancient India some 3–5000 years ago. Ayurvedic understanding…
Parenthood
Once baby is born we are suddenly plunged, often unprepared, into parenthood. The celebration of birth ushers in a new beginning. A new journey…
Mumps
We have been looking at common childhood illnesses over the last three issues, covering chicken pox, measles and whooping cough. These…