child development Archives • The Elephant Mum

June 1, 2020

I write this post as we complete our first year homeschooling R on Italian language. I am proud of her and us for sticking to it, and proud of ...

April 20, 2020

Here we are, having practiced social distancing for 5 weeks and counting, crushed by the uncertainty of when this will be over and how will the ...

March 23, 2020

A friend texted me “it won’t be the coronavirus killing me, it’s gonna be this homeschooling bit!”. After 10 days in ...

January 23, 2020

To the day, no country on the planet is close to achieve gender equality and it’s estimated that at the current rate we’ll get there ...

January 18, 2020

This entry is inspired by a recent article by Rebecca Onion titled Playtime Is Over!, posted in a Facebook group of local moms. The article ...

December 22, 2019

I am a master in complimenting my 3-year old kiddo. Just yesterday, I cheered and patted him in the back when he successfully put his dirty ...

October 24, 2019

Recently fellow mom blogger Sarah Forestwood of Books and Beyond asked me to share why reading is important to our family. A book lover myself, I ...

September 18, 2019

In the adoption community, I pride myself with being a small bridge between two realities, the one in Italy and the one in Finland. Two systems ...

April 20, 2019

On March 30th, 2019, the first event of Adoption Support Group Finland was held in Helsinki at the premises of Adoptioperheet ry. It was titled ...