Pata Pata – joy in times of the Corona Virus
Once called the “world’s most defiantly joyful song”, Miriam Makeba’s ‘Pata Pata’ has been rerecorded by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo, to spread i...
The Great Realisation – a simple bedtime story for complicated times
A bedtime story (not for your children, though) of how it started, and why hindsight’s 2020. A thought-provoking, gentle and beautiful video, musing on the worl...
The ‘million word gap’: the reason some children have a higher vocabulary than others
Researchers at Ohio State University have found children who are read five books per day before heading to school have heard a million more words than those who...
Twist and shout
It’s the international dance day this week. Let’s turn up the music and get dancing. Toddlers feel music in ways it seems some of us adults have for...
Kerry Parnell: Can all the lockdown motivators get lost
Have a laugh, have a read. Kerry Parnell, who writes for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, thinks that it surely would be nice to learn a new language o...