Why children use conflict in play and how to support them
As I walk downstairs, I can hear play-gunfire coming from my 7-year-old son. I enter the living room and look down at the battlefield before me. Lines of toy soldiers…
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Anna Dusseau explains why her family chose to home-school
Our family began home-educating back in 2019 and, I can assure you, this was definitely not the original plan. Home schooling happened to us, the same way it happened to…
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Learning from the past: life on the 1940s’ home front
Twenty-nine eggs a year, two ounces of cheese and three pints of milk a week: not a failed self-sufficiency project, but real life for many British families during the Second…
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Mindful Money: Charlotte Lidstone explains that the Why is as important as the How
When we think about money, we tend to think in terms of the doing, don’t we? Of spending, saving, budgeting, and investing. We use money to ‘do’ other things: to…
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Notes from a Child Activist: reusable bottles for schoolchildren
Sarah Isted reflects on her son Callum’s campaign to provide every primary schoolchild in Scotland with a reusable water bottle It’s a Friday afternoon and we’re walking down Lothian Road…
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Nine nourishing self-care ideas, from retreats to ritual cacao
Reviews by Alice Ellerby, Renée Elliott, Saffia Farr, Jess Hazel, Emily McFarlane Menopause Retreat In March, I attended Menoheaven on the south coast in Seaford, a retreat that offers women…
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Allotments: Caz Greenwood reflects on having a family plot
Years ago I wrote for JUNO about gardening: “Our allotment was covered in weeds and waist-high grass. I had just had Rowan – our third baby – and I optimistically…
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The Story Behind the Cover – Late Summer 2022
Erin Darcy is the illustrator behind our beautiful Late Summer cover. Erin is a self-taught artist and activist. Inspired by women and children, Erin’s paintings often reflect the taboo subjects…
Natural Term Breastfeeding: 10 Mothers Share Their Journey
Ann Owen hopes to support other mothers through her photographs My first born, my daughter, arrived after a traumatic birth. I had dreamt of a natural water birth, but instead…
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