The idea of home educating my children never crossed my mind when I was pregnant with my first. Fast forward seven years, and here we are, home educating all three of them. WORDS: Mirtill Yelland

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To help beat the winter bugs we are giving 5 lucky families the chance to win a selection of Sambucol Black Elderberry immune health vitamins.

We are told to make tiny babies wait three to four hours between feeds. Yet as adults, we go to the cupboard or fridge to get a snack. But babies and their tiny stomachs are told to wait. WORDS: Kirsty Pine

It’s packed with cosy, heart-warming, affirmative ideas to help you take better care of yourself and your family.

Have a very happy World Vegan Month, try finger knitting and yarn crafts, see London's wild-yet-historic procession! Plus take time out for peace, jump and jive to jazz, and the 21-year child portrait project!

Five Things To Do With Your Family In November: forage, make art, celebrate trees! Plus: make pine-needle tea, direct your own films and learn how to flyt or insult your friends!

Have a green Halloween; make stick skeletons, ghost leaves and spooksome, home-made last-minute costumes, or cook up pumpkin fondue! Plus ideas for family friendly, magickal Samhuinn fire celebrations, start Diwali with a bang, and Japan comes to Bristol!

Bumper issue! Free fun across the UK; apple days, monster markets, arty parties and an exhibition all about poo! Plus how to make budget-busting, eco-friendly Halloween decorations, warming autumal recipes galore, craft fruity witches, learn to whittle by a fire, hear salty stories by the sea, take stunning urban wildlife photographs on a phone! And how to talk to your children about Israel and Gaza.

Forage for fungi and wet walnuts, make a mushroom hat, pickle for the winter, and try spore printing. Plus free events around the country spark into life; wonder at light nights, find fresh STEM ideas in Oxford, explore what it's like growing up with witchy powers in Bloomsbury and see a giant totem spaceship in Regent's Park. And take a wild Hedgehog wander with Timmy and friends, or celebrate greener periods.