Mumming Around

Mumming Around From supporting mums to empowering families. Proudly evolving from coaching to creating a new home-education movement with Emberfield.

Building a foundation for the future, one cohort at a time.

Out at four thirty this morning to catch the waning crescent before it faded - and the bats before they went home to roo...
12/05/2026

Out at four thirty this morning to catch the waning crescent before it faded - and the bats before they went home to roost.

Then stayed for the sunrise.

The camera never does any of it justice. But I kept trying.

I talk a lot about noticing as a practice at Emberfield. Not mindfulness as a formal concept — just the actual act of paying attention to what is in front of you. The colour of the sky before the sun arrives. The way the birds start one at a time. The shift in temperature when the light changes.

It is what I want for every young person who comes through the gate in September.

A moment at the start of the day to just arrive. To notice something real. To let the body settle before anything is asked of it.
It starts here. On this bench. Before the world wakes up.

Follow along Emberfield Growth for more of this. 🌿

11/05/2026

Someone tried to call me judgmental the other day. And I sat with that for a minute — because I think what they actually meant was that I have good judgment.

And that made me think about how many words that describe women's natural capacities have been quietly rebranded as character flaws over centuries. Judgment became judgmental. Righteousness became self-righteous. Knowing your own mind became being difficult.

I do not think this is an accident. For a very long time it has served certain power structures to have women doubt their own discernment. Because a woman who trusts her judgment is a woman who is very hard to control.

Reclaiming my judgment does not mean going around condemning people or closing my mind to new thinking. Good judgment is not a closed door. It is actually what keeps the door open — because when you trust your own discernment, you do not need to be defensive about what comes through it.

I am done apologising for knowing what I think. And I am building something where the young people who come through the gate get to do the same.

Link in bio.

The girlboss era is over. The hustle is over. And the women I know are building something different.Not empires. Village...
11/05/2026

The girlboss era is over. The hustle is over. And the women I know are building something different.

Not empires. Villages. Small, deliberate communities built on connection, shared labour, and the knowledge that children were never meant to be raised by just two people in a box.

Emberfield is my version of that. A small learning community in Buckinghamshire where the architecture is connection and safety, and where the future of education is being built one relationship at a time.

If this resonates, come and find me.

Link in bio.

The sage on the stage model is dead — at least it is here. At Emberfield I work as a facilitator, not an instructor. A C...
10/05/2026

The sage on the stage model is dead — at least it is here. At Emberfield I work as a facilitator, not an instructor. A COLA — child-originated learning approach — puts the child's curiosity at the centre, not the curriculum. For neurodivergent young people especially, this isn't just a preference. It's a necessity. If this resonates, follow along at Emberfield Growth 🌿

Segregating children by birth year was never a pedagogical decision. It was an industrial one. Designed for factory effi...
09/05/2026

Segregating children by birth year was never a pedagogical decision. It was an industrial one. Designed for factory efficiency. Not human development.

In every culture that raised children well — and there are still communities around the world doing it today — children learned in mixed age groups. The older ones led. The younger ones watched. Everyone belonged to something bigger than their birth year.

At Emberfield, the pod of four spans nine to sixteen deliberately. Because that is the right shape for how human beings actually learn alongside each other.

Four places. September 2026. Link in bio if this resonates.

09/05/2026

There is a moment after the grief and the anger of leaving the mainstream system where something shifts.
You stop looking back. And you start building.
This caption is for the parents who are in that moment right now. Who have done the fighting, the advocating, the sleepless nights wondering if they are making the right call. Who are ready to stop asking the system to change and start building something that works instead.
Emberfield is what I found on the other side of that anger. A small, home-based learning community in Buckinghamshire. Cambridge IGCSEs. Life skills. Nature. A phone-free, regulation-first environment for young people aged nine to sixteen who deserve something built around how they actually learn.
If this is where you are — come and find me. Link in bio.

08/05/2026

A clip from my conversation with Charlotte about what Emberfield will actually feel like from the inside.

I talk about boredom. Or rather I talk about the thing we used to call boredom before we decided it was a problem to be solved rather than a state to be moved through. The daydream. The pause. The unscheduled moment. The space where a young person's own thoughts get to take up some room.

The attention economy has waged a very successful war on that space. And I think one of the most important things I can do at Emberfield is refuse to surrender it.
Follow along if this resonates.

07/05/2026

I hope this message travels a bit.

If you are parenting a neurodivergent child and you are exhausted, this might be the most important thing you hear today. Not because it will fix anything. But because it might explain something. And sometimes that's everything.

The village did not just drift away. It was systematically dismantled. And our autistic children are living with the consequences of that loss in ways that most of the world does not yet have the language to describe.

I am building something small and something slow in response to it. Four children. One trusted adult. A woodland and a kitchen table and a belief that human beings were engineered to learn together, not in isolation.

Follow along if this resonates.

07/05/2026

This clip is from a few months ago now — when the white paper dropped and I was invited onto Three Counties Radio to share my thoughts.

I'll be honest: it caused a bit of a stir. I said some things about the education system that I gather didn't go down well in certain quarters.

I stand by every word. And I want to be clear, as I always try to be, about exactly what I mean when I say the system is broken.

I am not talking about the people inside it.

The vast majority of teachers, TAs, SENCOs, and support staff I have encountered in my years working in schools are dedicated, loving, and quietly exhausted people — many of whom will privately tell you exactly the same things I say publicly. They know. They feel it too. They are just working within constraints that were never designed around what children actually need.

When I say the system is broken, I mean the system. The design. The structure. The assumptions baked in at the foundation level — about how children learn, what they need, and what education is actually for.

Parts two, three, and four coming over the next couple of days.

“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accompl...
29/04/2024

“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.” – Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Parenting hacks 🙌 If your children have plastic and rubber toys, then load up the dishwasher with them. add 1.5 cups of ...
27/04/2024

Parenting hacks 🙌 If your children have plastic and rubber toys, then load up the dishwasher with them. add 1.5 cups of vinegar and set it to wash!

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