Folding laundry is a fact of life and often takes a lot of time – especially in households with young children.
Helping children to fold and put away fresh clean clothes themselves can be a big help in a family. … More Folding laundry…
How to (efficiently) vacuum clean your home. … More The idiot’s guide to vacuum cleaning
Our current au pair, “E”, is leaving us at Christmas and it will as usual be a sad moment when we have to say goodbye. It is particularly tricky for the children of course who often become very attached to their care-givers. We have also become fond of E though of course, as with your … More The Au Pair Cycle – time for a change
Yesterday we had a very successful home-made sushi session, but as usual there were plenty of vegetables left over. A pretty standard way to use these up after sushi in our household is a quick stir-fry. Mastering this is actually very straightforward and should be in every young person’s armoury. It’s quick, cheap, healthy and … More The Survivalists Stirfry
Here is part 1 in an occasional series. I have found that children eat much better when they are allowed to help prepare their own food and even to “play” with it, so we have developed a few standard dishes that we prepare at home. This is especially important when children go through fussy phases … More Playing with your food: Sushi
One of the questions that gets asked over and over again on social media are what are some suggestions of things to do with children in Copenhagen? There are a tonne of things to do here in Copenhagen so I’m restricting myself to ten right now. I will update these posts as an occasional series. Especially … More Ten Great Things to Do In Copenhagen with Children: The Great Outdoors
This is kind of an obvious one, everyone knows how to vaccuum right? Well kind of… A few hints and tips here to help get the best finish: Make sure there is nothing on the floor. Pick up toys, papers etc First vacuum the rugs, go lengthwise and across wise the get as much dust … More How to vacuum clean…
Denmark has very strict and clear rules about what an au pair is and is not expected to do. In contrast to the American system where it seems an au pair is largely only really expected to take care of the children and not to do chores around the house, in Europe au pairs are … More What does an au pair do?
Most kids love running around outside or watching TV/playing computer games inside. But what to do if you have to entertain them when neither is a possibility? It’s probably important to emphasise that if the children are tearing the house apart, you may need to really focus your attention just on them, Put away any … More Ideas for a rainy day
The danish packed lunch in a lunch box is one of the rituals almost all households with children in Denmark go through every single morning. Preparing the lunch box “madkasse” is one of those tasks that parents often dread, though possibly emptying the uneaten remnants is even worse. It can be hard to maintain both … More The Healthy Packed Lunch
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