Today childhood is extremely commercialised as the market for children’s products such as toys and food is enormous. Parents have a difficult time raising children the way they want to because kids are being increasingly influenced by commercialism that often goes against what parents are trying to do. The mass media affect children’s lives through…
This year we had unusual but most memorable Easter ever! Instead of sitting around the table and eating too much food, we decided to spend a day in Cinque Terre – isolated pastel hamlets tucked away in a particularly mountainous kink of the Italian Riviera. We prepared a picnic basket and left home early in the morning.…
Today I am sharing my thoughts on a book which really impressed me. Don’t get deceived by the book title “Toxic Childhood. How the modern world is damaging our children and what we can do about it” – this book is definitely not an invitation to raise kids in old style! The author is analysing modern issues…
March was incredibly joyful and fun month. It not only was my birthday, but we went on very exciting holiday too. We travelled through Germany, Switzerland and Italy together with my brother’s family and visited a great number of stunning places. Tired of city noise and busy lives, we were looking mostly to spend time…
Do you know, that it takes up to 11 000 litres of water to make one pair of jeans? Inexpensive denim comes at the cost of human labour and environment. Genetically modified cotton, unsustainable farming practices, pesticides and toxic dyes and after all this your jeans travel almost 10 000 km by boat and up to…
February proved that having kids and being on a shopping ban doesn’t work together very well. February has been marked as a month of my first fail. I had to make a purchase which doesn’t fit any of our exceptions: it wasn’t essential, it wasn’t an experience neither it was a replacement. What was it? An…
