Noah CooperHow England’s World Cup dreams always end up. (@Doug88888) In case you hadn’t heard, the World Cup is about to start here in Brazil. As an Englishman living here I am just thankful that England managed to qualify because I don’t...
Mummy and daddy ducks (katdaned) What do you do with a toddler on an afternoon when you have got nothing planned, but your pride and joy is going stir crazy in the house? The weather probably isn’t good enough to slap on shorts and T-shirts...
Jimi Hendrix by Luiz Fernando Reis CC BY 2.0 The great Jimi Hendrix is widely quoted as saying that ‘music is my religion’ and it could quite easily apply to our family as well. Despite not being able to play an instrument or hold a note, I have...
It is with great pleasure that I am the host of this month’s Multicultural Kids Blogs Carnival. The theme this month is ‘Where do you come from?’ which can be a tricky question for lots of people to answer in this modern world...
I ‘drove’ one of these when I was a kid Last week I went to João Pessoa in the north-east of Brazil for the Braz Tesol conference. It is a conference that draws together English language teachers from all over Brazil, as well as...
Music is very important in our family. I can’t play an instrument to save my life, and my singing voice is even worse, but I have always been around music, including being a roadie for my friends’ band, The Sherbet, when I was a teenager. I...
It was much easier than this (Wikipedia) Potty training was a breeze. We waited until the summer, about 3 months ago, because both I and Mrs. Head of the Heard would both be around to lead the training. We were prepared for a long haul, but within...
Open book (Wikipedia) Giving your child the gift of enjoying the act of reading has got to be one of the greatest things a parent can give. Assuming we satisfy our child’s basic needs, then reading is a gift that just keep on giving. But as a...
This is exactly how we had to get on and off the plane. As part of my recent trip back home to the UK with my son to see my family and go to IATEFL we obviously had to fly from Curitiba to London via Sao Paulo. I chose a night flight in the hope...
Araucaria pine tree, a symbol of Curitiba by Willian Menq CC BY-NC 2.0 1. What this city needs is another shopping mall. 2. This holiday weekend, what I’d really love to do is sit in a traffic jam for hours on end and then stay near the beach...