I set up this homework area about half way through last year for the kids. It has been a great success, helping to: keep all the required items in one place giving …
Top 10 Money Saving Tips For Families
Image by alancleaver_2000 Today’s guest post is by the team at MyLife. MyLife is a friendly, but professional financial planning firm, that specialises in helping families. MyLife aim to help people pay …
Some Thoughts On Motherhood
For my monthly wrap up post this month, the theme is Motherhood! I have been thinking a lot about me as a mother lately. Wondering if I am doing it right. Am …
Tips For Organising and Decluttering Your Home
This month’s round up of posts from the blogosphere focuses on tips to help you organise and declutter your home. I had started decluttering at my house in May, but we have …
Monthly Review, May 2010
Review Of Key Tasks For May My overriding goal for May was to slow things down. I didn’t fully succeed in this, but May was certainly better than April. I am aiming …
Where to start getting organised at home!
Planning With Kids is about getting organised at home, setting up solid foundations, so you can spend more time with your family and on the fun bits of family life. I have …
A Mixed Bag!
I have recently been collating my 10 internet finds for the month around one theme. This month however, there was a few finds that I was just busting to share and they …
Ideas For Celebrating Book Week
You can find more ideas for celebrating book week on my current post for 2011 here – Book Week Activities 2011 – Ideas for CBCA Shortlisted Book. The Children’s Book Council of …
10 Time Management Tips For Parents
1. Menu Plan It is easy to spend considerable time contemplating what to cook and then run multiple times to the supermarket for the required ingredients. Menu planning eliminates this. I have …
Stopping The Thumbsucking
Image by Byron and Tamara Next Wednesday our beautiful Possum turns five. This year her birthday means something other than just a celebration – it is also the day that she needs …
10 Top Posts For October
This month’s collection of some of my favourite posts will start with a topic that I usually don’t talk about on the blog – politics. With the US Election almost here, I …
Guest Post: Role Reversal Experience – Mr Infrastructure
This is the first guest post on Planning With Kids and I am very proud that it comes from my gorgeous husband! Here is his experience from trading roles with me last …
May – Posts Of The Month
Here are a collection of posts that I came across in my travels across the blogosphere, that I enjoyed during the month of May. SOCIETY I fear for our young people written …
Planning To Shop For The Children’s Clothes.
Before I go shopping, I like to write down what the requirements for each child are. There is so much choice available, that I can get overwhelmed when I am in the …
Reorganising The Children’s Drawers And Wardrobes.
Last week it was the toy shelf, this week I have been reorganising the children’s drawers and wardrobes. It an ideal time to do this job, as all the shops have started …