Fab Mums

These foreign language alphabet blocks from Modern Lola are a great idea for young children who are exposed to a second (or even a third) language. Perfect 44 mm wooden cubes handcrafted with attention to details and coloured with attractive bright and child safe paints, they are ideal to be handles by little hands. The [...]

Recently I have been following my son’s progress with English literacy using his Italian schoolwork as a reference point. This works well especially for numeracy and science subjects, but when it comes to learning reading and writing it takes a little more work. I decided to introduce this immediately after Christmas when he began to [...]

There are some bedtime stories we keep going back to time and time again. The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of them. It was a huge success when my then 3 year old son received it as a present from his grandmother. The simple fantastical story and the old fashion illustrations were such big [...]

The Natural History Museum has always been one of my favourite museums and more so since I have been a mum. Now that my son is at school age he can really take part in the fantastic family activities suggested by the museum for children in his age group. As well as the hand-on activities, [...]

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 [...]

While I was browsing the Internet I landed on a fantastic website that is all about playful learning. The website, which is in fact called Playful Learning, is a great resource for parents and teachers as it features an interesting approach to learning in so many creative ways inspiring kids with hands on projects and [...]

One thing my husband and I tried to instil in our son from a very young age is the love for travelling, the want to see new places and eventually experience life in a new country rather than approaching a holiday just from a tourist point of view. Well, it seems we were successful! He [...]