Hi all, Apart from teaching my kids John Belly Mama today, I am going to try to start teaching them the pledge and anthem as well. Not living in Barbados means that their exposure to all things Barbadian is limited. So it falls on me to educate them about their culture and part of that it celebrating Independence. Now if I had it my way we would be dressing in traditional dress, doing all the John Belly Actions (we love the come down when I call you wuk up action most), eatin

I recently started reading chapter books to the kids. In a moment of insanity, I bought five books and in three consecutive nights started reading all five. From this I realized two things: It is better to complete one book at a time with small kids If you are going follow my lead, you are going to need some bookmarks. Not having them results in five books lying around open in order to keep the page. I didn't need this in my constantly untidy house and you probably don't eith