Life, Love and Dirty Dishes delivers award winning funny tales from the parenting front line delivered with humour and heart. We're all in this together.
If you have a flight coming up, using a carry-on bag will save you a lot of time and worry. You don’t have to wait at the baggage carousel; you’ll minimize the chance of a stolen or lost bag, and you’ll have everything you need in the overhead bin. But what does a carry-on bag…
If you ask experienced teachers what makes the biggest difference to a child’s progress over a year, very few will mention talent. Most will say something close to the same answer: consistency. The child who shows up, does the work, sleeps regularly, eats well and keeps at it across the months will outperform the more able child…
Every parent wants a child who loves learning, and yet a lot of childhood is structured in ways that quietly erode that love. The good news is that the love of learning is the default human state. Babies and toddlers are voracious learners. The question is not how to install it, but how to avoid…
Community is one of those concepts that is easy to say and hard to live. We all want our children to grow up with a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves, and yet modern family life often runs at a pace that makes that surprisingly difficult to arrange. The good news is that…
Single-sex education has been part of the British schooling landscape for centuries, and it continues to thrive for a simple reason: when done well, it works. Boys’ schools in particular offer something specific that mixed schools find harder to replicate. Here is what is actually going on inside a good boys’ school, and why so many families…
