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A random collection of musings about different issues; from babies and breastfeeding, to feminism and ideology. Particularly focused on UK and family life.
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Those aren't your onions...

English - Feminism, Linguistics, Children
http://www.youronions.blogspot.com
Those aren't your onions... · 4M ago

Assessing home educators

Many questions home educators receive have hidden agendas. For example; "Does anyone have to inspect you?" hides the questions:  "How can you educate without someone telling you what to do?"  and; "How can you be good enough?" To which my reply ought to be: "I have a brain, I can figure
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Those aren't your onions... · 5M ago

Resources Page

I've added a page up the top to put my home-made resources in! These are here in good faith for personal use, please let me know if you've used them and credit me where possible, I'll try to do the same if I happen to borrow anything. The first thing I have for you is a set of dinosaur silhoue
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Those aren't your onions... · 5M ago

"Orwellian Schemes"?

"A graduate is taking legal action against the government over a scheme which she says forces people to do unpaid work." via BBC I'm really struggling with this report that was just on the news. I would love to hear a bit more from Cait - the aforementioned graduate; things like whether she has wor
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Those aren't your onions... · 7M ago

Can She Read and Write...?

We drop Mr Onions off at work most days and Little Onion (Shallot? Perhaps she needs an Onion-Based alias too?) loves it when he knocks on her window to say 'goodbye,' I actually think it's the highlight of her day.  Before we left the other morning he wrote her name in the condensation on the wi
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Those aren't your onions... · 7M ago

Self direction with Sonic

My girly is trying to use a handheld Mega Drive. And getting really frustrated with it not doing what she wants. It's hard to stand back and stop myself from showing her. The litany of 'If you want to play you play, but if you're frustrated you can put it down,' is getting tiresome, but what i
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Those aren't your onions... · 7M ago

Banana and Date Breakfast Muffins!

Let's lighten things up a bit here! I've been investigating making muffins for about 6 months now and finally think I'm getting the hang of it.  I invented these with NP and they were well received by all, they are low on (added, refined) sugar and not too fatty (I think). I reckon they could
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Those aren't your onions... · 7M ago

Banana and Date Breakfast Muffins!

Let's lighten things up a bit here! I've been investigating making muffins for about 6 months now and finally think I'm getting the hang of it.  I invented these with NP and they were well received by all, they are low on (added, refined) sugar and not too fatty (I think). I reckon they could
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Those aren't your onions... · 9M ago

More Meta

Sometimes I want to kick my ass. I have all these pretensions about What My Blog Is. So many, in fact, that I end up writing nothing on here for days, weeks, months sometimes. I feel like I have nothing important to say. I think about those blogs that I skip reading these days because they're so bor
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Those aren't your onions... · 9M ago

Summer Reading Challenge

Children are often liable to take you by surprise, aren't they?  At the moment, we aren't using any kind of structured learning but we are doing lots of reading and taking advantage of every opportunity. In this environment, over past month, my little one has discovered something awesome. The glee o
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Those aren't your onions... · 9M ago

On Writing

"I want to challenge everyone to do it better. By all means, tell your story. But when you do, don’t forget that the minor characters in your life are the protagonists of their own. If you respect their voices and honor their stories, they might just be there for you next time, helping you through t
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