can help to remember that you’re on the same team as your child; that they don’t want to create more work or stress for you, and that you want to parent as well as you

the environment doesn’t invite activity, exploration, or curiosity, then we always look at how we can fix the environment, not the child.

Rhythm is there to be a helpful guide rather than a taskmaster, and it can and should be flexible.

Homeschooling — however long you do it for — provides a unique opportunity to build up your child’s knowledge of the world, knowledge which will give them the context for all future learning.

Playful parenting is so much more than just getting down on the floor and ‘playing’; it’s an approach to everyday interactions with children which can help with the hardest parts of parenting — arguments, big emotions, anxiety — and bring more joy into every part of our life. It can help us to reconsider what it means to be a parent, and allow us

Anchors are the points in your day that your rhythm hangs onto.

‘yes spaces’ effectively negate the need for a lot of traditional discipline.

If we want our children to learn to value their play, then we must show them that we value their play.

These small actions, repeated lovingly year after year, become part of ‘what we do’ — the moments our children will look back on when grown, and perhaps recreate with their own children.