My mum told the best stories in the world

Book swap day

This post appeared earlier this week on my other blog baby budgeting which is all about thrifty family life but I thought it was right to pop it here too, in honour of my mum and world book day. Who Is Your Child’s Hero? My lovely mum always told me to be my best self and she gave me lots of examples through stories of how to be a hero. She always told me stories of people who did their very best to shape and change things so others had better lives. She told me about Rosa … [Read more...]

Keeping storytelling alive

imagination

Keeping storytelling alive in our family is very important to me. I orinally posted this blog post at my other site babybudgeting  but I thought it should have a home here too.   Why I tell stories I have always loved to tell stories. I used to work with a boy with very low self esteem who would have me tell him stories where he was a handsome prince and a complete hero. When my son was small and a little nervous of the big kids on the park I would tell him stories of children of all … [Read more...]