Fab Mums

There is no substitute for peer motivation. I have been trying to no avail to get my son to speak English and I know he could if he wanted to because he understands everything perfectly, but he insisted in answering in Italian until a few weeks ago. In the past he only made exceptions if the [...]

When our son was born we moved from London to Sardinia for what was supposed to be only a few years, but six years later we are still here and our son is starting school next week. The school system in Italy is slightly different in structure from the UK but the curriculum is similar. [...]

I found the perfect gift on Etsy for kids learning to spell, these stuffed felt alphabet letters handmade by MiChiMa are ideal to play all kind of spelling games to improve your kids’ written language abilities. The letters are available in upper or lower case, each set contains 62 colourful letters including 2 complete alphabet [...]

We recently finished reading Luca’s first long story book, The BFG by Roald Dahl and it was a success. At first I was unsure as I thought it might be a little too early to tackle 200 pages as 5 year olds loose interest very quickly, instead it was fun to wait for the next [...]

All young children find underpants funny, that’s why the book Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman is such a success. My 5 year old loves it, the words flow very well thanks to the rhymes and the story itself is funny. Aliens don’t have underpants in space so they come to earth to steal them [...]

I love Julia Donaldson’s books, the way they are written in rhyme make it very easy for children to follow and after a few times you read them together they start to learn the lines helping them to exercise their memory. I find these books are great to build confidence in children beginning to read [...]

Green Eggs and Ham and Cat in the Hat are two of my son’s favourite books and mine too. Dr Seuss books have helped many generations learning to read since the 1950s. The rhyme, rhythm and repetition make them easier to read and help to build confidence. Dr Seuss’ books are made of the so [...]