by adminDmWP2 | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog
I’d like to share with you a four-part storytelling game which I really enjoy playing with adults and/or children. I’ve played this with children of varying ages but find that 6 – 10 year old probably enjoy and benefit from it most. Sometimes I only...
by adminDmWP2 | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
I believe that stories are like meals, so whilst sharing stories is thrilling and they feed and nourish us deeply, too many ‘main’ meals can leave us feeling over full. Of course the perfect size ‘meal’ does depend on age of the recipient. Often, my...
by adminDmWP2 | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
Accept your own voice and qualities As a young 21 year old woman finding my way into theatre, first as an usher and later as the first female Theatre Manager for Stoll Moss Theatres, I was bright, bubbly and chatty. There was also pressure on me, in what was then such...
by adminDmWP2 | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
….and like any muscle it needs exercise. Just as our limbs would wither if we didn’t use them so it is with our imagination. Before imagination, in very small children there is first imitation, tiny children imitate everything around them, not just the ‘doing’...
by adminDmWP2 | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Pippa. She had curly blond hair and a big broad smile. Pippa’s favourite colour was ?…… Her favourite song was ?…….. and her favourite food was?…….. her favourite animal...
by adminDmWP2 | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog
In January 2005 my daughter was approaching three and a half. During the last six to eight months I had begun to slip into power struggles with her, finding myself getting angry and frustrated with her. I was also negotiating by withholding; if you don’t do this, we...