How to get your motivation back up and running
Mar 28 2021
If you have kids you’ll have experienced a major change in your life when schools reopened. Now that you’ve had a couple of weeks to adjust, how are you feeling? If you’re like me it could be a mix of emotions. You may be noticing that your usual energy and umph has not come back – which might be a surprise given the return to something more like ‘normal’.
After a long period of lockdown and home schooling, plus a continued diet of Covid news items on TV, on our newsfeeds etc perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that our inner motivation hasn’t instantly returned.
My mum is a rock star
Mar 27 2021
Musicians are my favourite people to interview and to be around. Here I give you four incredible mums who have fulfilled their dream to become rock stars. Award-winning songwriter Amy Speace (Amy) has made the most revealing album of her career (her ninth) with There Used to Be Horses Here – recorded in Nashville in just four days. Beautifully uplifting and deeply personal, the album sets Amy’s majestic voice to symphonic arrangements, yet her songwriting remains intimate and emotional. London mum LuLu Ash (Lulu) has just finished recording her debut album Circles about all feelings of confusion, sadness & self-doubt within us, that eventually we overcome to appreciate our own worth & strength, and with that comes the closure of the circle, a sense of peace.
Glasgow singer (now London-based mum) Melanie Masson (Mel) shot to fame on ITV talent show The X Factor back in 2012, after a heart-rending, roof-raising performance of Janis Joplin’s Cry Baby. This is when I first contacted her. She has had a solo career and toured all over the world ever since.
Nini Matessi Schou (Nini) is a vocal coach, a songwriter and punk rock performer based in Denmark.
You might not know their names yet, but watch this space as they are absolutely fabulous.
Travel with kids: 10 Reasons to visit Tuscany
Mar 26 2021
In this blog London Mums’ contributor Rita Kobrak, now living at Villa Radicata in Tuscany, has shared with us the reasons why Italy should be the number one destination for our holidays once travel abroad is lifted.
If lockdown has given you and your family cabin fever and you long to be out and about with your children, book your dream family-friendly Villa and head out to the Tuscan sunshine. Here are 10 reasons to visit Tuscany.
Win a Product of the Year 2021 goody bag worth £180
Mar 25 2021
For the past 15 years, I have been part of the Product of the year judging panel which selects products to be then presented to the vast consumers for their final verdict. Despite the difficulties in 2020, 10,000 consumers have voted for the most innovative consumer products of 2021. London Mums have now the chance to win an exclusive Product of the Year 2021 goody bag worth £180. Find out how you can enter this competition.
Win 1 of 5 copies of Zog and the Flying Doctors DVD
Mar 25 2021
The heart-warming adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s beloved picture book, Zog and the Flying Doctors, arrives on Digital and DVD with an all-star British voice cast. To celebrate, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment are giving away one of five DVDs, following everyone’s favourite orange dragon, Zog on his latest adventure.
Schooling: Teachers from top UK Private Schools say period of online learning helped to close the ‘Achievement Gap’ for children who need more time to learn
Mar 24 2021
Today we meet the teachers who explain why they have switched jobs from traditional schools to join future-led online schools amidst the pandemic. Online independent senior school, Minerva’s Virtual Academy, has made several more, new appointments of teachers this term who have each chosen to move away from roles at traditional schools, in favour of teaching pupils remotely. The rising number of teachers embracing new learning technologies, suggests that the recent period of online learning is impacting the future of education on many different levels. As well as coming from several state schools across the country, a number of teachers have joined the Academy from top UK private schools including Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire and Bethany Independent Boarding School in Kent, to name a few. For many teachers, the pandemic has also uncovered gaps in educational success for those children who simply need more time to learn.
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