Kim's Childminding In Glenfield

Santas route for tonight.

We want them to stay warm, but we NEED them to stay safe.

❌ Bulky coats, snowsuits, or thick sweaters don’t belong under harnesses or seatbelts!

💡 They create dangerous slack in a crash.

✅ Instead, buckle your child snugly, then add warmth over top, like a blanket or backwards coat

🥋 Exciting News for Our Martial Arts Mastery Families! 🥋

We’ve got some big news to share! Starting Monday 3rd November, we’re making an exciting upgrade to our Thurmaston program — we’ll be splitting our current class into TWO brand-new age-specific programs designed to help every child get the very best out of their training! 🎉

💥 Mini Mastery (Ages 4–6)
A fun, high-energy class focused on building confidence, focus, coordination, and good listening skills. Perfect for young beginners who learn best through movement and play!

💥 Junior Mastery (Ages 7–12)
A fast-paced, motivating class designed to help children develop discipline, self-belief, respect, and leadership skills — both on and off the mats.

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👊 Why the Change?

Over the years, we’ve seen how children thrive when they train alongside others their own age and stage of development. Splitting the classes means:
✅ More focused teaching for each age group
✅ Faster progress and skill development
✅ A more confident, engaged, and supportive atmosphere for every student

In short — this change allows us to deliver even more value, fun, and growth for all our students! 🌟

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🗓️ Launch Date: Monday 3rd November

If you’ve got a child aged 4–12, this is the perfect time to get them started on their Martial Arts Mastery journey!

Send us a message today to book a FREE taster session in either our Mini or Junior Mastery class — spaces will fill fast!

Let’s make this next chapter our best one yet 🙌

Empowered. Fierce. Unstoppable. 💪🥋

Martial arts isn’t just about kicks and punches, it’s about self-confidence, discipline, and resilience.

For girls, it’s a game-changer. They learn to stand tall, trust their strength, and face challenges head-on. Whether in training or in life, they develop the courage to push past obstacles and believe in their own power.

Every girl deserves to know that she is strong enough, brave enough, and unstoppable. Let’s build a future where confidence comes naturally and self doubt has no place!

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One of the mysteries of life for me is why we have designed school in such a way that it requires children to do so many things which are very hard for them - and which become much easier in adulthood.

We require them to sit still when they are desperate to move. To stay in their seats when they want to crawl under the table. To keep quiet and listen when their body wants to play and shout.

We tell them to walk not run, when every part of their body longs to move fast. We put them into nylon trousers when they’d prefer soft leggings. We make a big deal out of things they can’t do yet, but which almost everyone learns as they grow up. Shapes, colours, telling the time. We teach them to read before they have the desire for themselves, and make them do maths which they find incomprehensibly difficult, but that a few years later will feel so simple as to be trivial. No matter whether you go to school or not.

We’ve designed school so that it’s hard for immature brains and bodies, and then we blame children and parents when they can’t follow the rules. We tell them they aren’t school-ready, or they need to try harder. We point out all the many ways in which they fall short. Too noisy, too active, too impulsive, too….childish.

By the time those children reach adolescence, the urge to roll on the floor or hang off the chair is fading, but the years of being told they have to sit still and listen have taken their toll. They’ve lost the raw energy of childhood, but it’s more than that. They’ve lost their joy in learning, because school wasn’t built for the child they were, any more than it is for the teenager they’ve become.

And then again, it’s them who are blamed. Disruptive, rude, bad attitudes. It would be so much better if they simply did what they were told.

But what we’re telling them to do in school is squashing our children. Children aren’t built to sit still and absorb information. They are built to keep moving and playing. To hang upside down and climb on the roof. To dream and shout and talk all the time.

But when our children tell us so, we’re not listening. We tell them that the problem is them.
Who are the slow learners? Not them.

Daytrip to tropical birdland.

Daytrip to stonehurst farm Park.

The caterpillars have finally arrived.