We give our children dolls to play with that are so sexualised (breast/waist/hip ratio) that if those proportions were on a real woman she’d be anorexic and unable to walk on two legs.

Then we wonder why our kids grow up with unrealistic body expectations and low self esteem.

As I...

As we head into Spring/Summer over here, the warmer weather has my body intuitively craving salads and fresh raw food. I quickly threw this crunchy, sweet and tangy salad together with what I had in the fridge and proceeded to eat over half it myself, lol. (This is perfect for you if you have a...

(originally published in 2018)

[If this blog post interests you, you might want to look at my pregnancy course where I go much deeper into these topics]

This aspect of birth prep is, for me, very connected to emotional preparations for birth. French obstetrician Michele Odent talks about how women...

(Originally posted in 2018)

[ If these posts interests you and you want to know more - I go more deeply into the topic of preparing for birth in my pregnancy course which will be released soon.] 

Previously I wrote about how I'm preparing my body physically for birth and recovery....

Have you heard of gameschooling?

It's one of the most fun things I have learnt about as a homeschooler.

As humans, we learn exponentially more by DOING something rather than hearing or reading about something. This is what makes hands on learning so successful.

Gameschooling adds an extra...

I think I owe most of my creativity in the kitchen to the fact that I'm often trying to repurpose leftovers to make them more appealing to my kids

This dish was born out of having leftover rice that no one was eating. Until I tossed it into a pot and converted it into dessert-for-breakfast

I used...

This is your reminder that you don't NEED a pinterest or instagram worthy mud-kitchen (play area, garden, sand pit - insert what applies to you) for your kids to enjoy themselves.

Spring is here and we're spending so much more time outdoors, alhamdulillah (praise God).

My kids "made" this...

When my children were younger I used to make homemade gums with vitamin C powder added to it. It was a no-complaints way of getting extra vitamins into them! I had completely forgotten about these until my daughter requested that we make them and use their “popper fidget” toys as...

This book has been extremely popular over the last decade but in case you haven’t heard about it yet, I introduce you to :

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" ! 

We’ve had our copy for almost a decade, since my firstborn was a baby and it is a little...ahem...well-loved. So excuse the...

I often have leftover strawberries which my kids have rejected for various reasons (the size, it has been cut, it has slightly soft spots ), so I collect these and turn them into a healthy strawberry jam. You can do this with other berries too, as well as stone fruit (and you can even make...