Katie Hugill Childminding Carlisle - Ofsted rated GOOD

Carpool karaoke summer 2026 🎤 🚗

Handing the phone to the older ones and re watching the videos has had me CRYING with laughter 😆 here’s a few of their selfies 💃🏽

Something just so magical about bubbles 🫧- something so simple brings so much joy and excitement to children big and small 😊

Why do children spot everything - at the park on Friday enjoying a picnic, little one comes running back from the bin saying “GUYS IT SAYS CLITTER C L I T T E R”

Me - yeah ermm it’s says Litter 🥸

Them - NO C L I T T E R CLITTTTTER 🤓

ME - who wants ice cream 🙃🫠

Handy post I found while scrolling 😊

Top tip for childminders out there:

Get a car with rubber flooring = being able to wash it after all the adventures 😆

Sunday car clean day ✔️ 🧼

Due to having a few personal things going on lately I haven’t really been posting much, so apologies for lack of posts, but I will catch up soon with our adventures from last week🩷

But for now before I go to bed, I thought I’d share today I completed my 6 hours first aid - along side the 6 hours online in the week making my 12 hour paediatric training now complete 🩹 🤕

As usual I used the wonderful Daisy First Aid Carlisle, The Lakes, SW Scotland and W Northumberland - highly recommend if you’re needing to do or renew your first aid ⛑️

Everyone is so quick to judge and say that I don’t eat “healthy” because we don’t follow their idea of what a healthy diet should look like.

In my setting, I don’t ban foods. I believe everything in moderation is absolutely okay. I promote healthy eating, oral health and, importantly, I help children understand where their food comes from.

Every year, we grow our own fruit and vegetables. 🌱🥕🥔🍓

We’ve already enjoyed our potatoes and strawberries earlier in the year, and yesterday it was time to harvest the vegetables we’ve been growing since the beginning of the year.

We’ve watched them grow from tiny seeds, cared for them, watered them and nurtured them until they were ready to harvest — and we are SO happy with how well they’ve done this year! 💚

And honestly… people can lose their minds when I post a snack that includes a biscuit. 😂🍪

So I’m wondering… who’s going to lose their minds over our vegetables?! 😂🥕🥒

Because this, to me, is all part of promoting healthy eating.

It’s about balance, variety, education and enjoyment. It’s about giving children the opportunity to try different foods, learn where food comes from and develop a positive relationship with what they eat — without labelling foods as “good” or “bad”.

We can enjoy a biscuit AND grow, harvest and enjoy our own vegetables. 🌱💚

That’s what a balanced approach to food looks like in our setting 💟

What did we get up to today? Are you brave enough to try ?🌶️ 😂😳 🫘

Everyone always asks for this game - nothing will ever beat the first year we did it 🥲😂😳 - I’ll have to see if I can search the videos out for memories 🤣😂

I got soap 🧼 😳🤢