Alena Fight Apathy.. Or Don’t When a friend sent me this image of some graffiti scribbled on a car-park column, it got me thinking. As much as I don’…
Alena The unlikely link between permaculture design & getting your kid off screens It is safe to assume that parents, on the whole, strive to grow healthy and blooming children. As in parenting, so in permaculture – a …
Alena The Infinite Merit of Taking Some Time Out Newsflash: our little home did not implode, nor did the children spontaneously combust whilst I was away living my dreams for a couple of …
Alena The Freedom of Just Being :: Especially for New Mums This (above) is what we’ve been doing ’round at our place this past seven weeks… watching the baby! That’s about all we …
alena turley | creator, educator, martial artist 10 Things to Say to Your Child When They Can’t Stop Crying It’s that awful moment – the shopping bags are heavy, you’re walking into your house arms aching, baby hanging from one hip, the …
Alena Resilience, And How To Build It …especially with your children This article was inspired by a post on Bath Mums, a local mum’s forum in our home city of …
Alena The Myth Of The Terrible Teen, And How We May Carve Out An Alternative Have you heard that expression, ‘the golden years’? Sometimes it is applied to the years after our kids move out of home when we …
Alena The Parent Pay-Off It is evening at our house. Two out of three kids are sleeping, maybe not for very long in the case of the 7-month-old, …
Alena Remembering the Woman Within the Mum (Letting the Wildness Return) I’m writing to you from the comfort of our cosy living room, just after the kids have all gone to bed. It’s …
