What’s it like to tame your golden hamster? Centine has been with us for about a month now. She has gotten acclimated to her new cage and environment, and we think it is time to start taming her. So we got some fresh dandelion leaves from our front yard and started calling her, dangling the…
What’s it like to take a hiking trip to Wipperkotten, which contains a historic wrought with a water wheel? On an island in the Wupper river (Wuppertal is the city with the famous suspension monorail and the big zoo) lies the romantic Wipperkotten, which still houses a wrought where one can sharpen one’s knives. We…
What’s it like to go to a tarantula exhibition with your kid? Today, we drove to a tarantula exhibit in the city of Solingen, West Germany. On two floors, they had different critters, not just tarantulas. There were also live stick insects, caterpillars, crabs, and snails. In addition, there were some model insects, so the…
guest article written by Maria F. What’s it like to have a hemithyroidectomy? What on earth is a … whatever? It means that half your thyroid is taken out. „Hemi“ means half, „thyroid“, that’s the thyroid gland in your neck, and „ectomy“, that’s the surgical removal of a body part. Doesn’t sound like fun, does…
What’s it like to publish an e-book with Lulu self-publishing service? You have content like texts and/or photos that you want to share with the public? Or, you have created content that you want to share with your family/specific persons only? You would like a print-on-demand service where you don’t have to buy a certain…
What’s it like to take a walk through NaturGut Ophoven in the city of Leverkusen, a big park where you also can celebrate children’s birthdays? On this beautiful fall day, we ventured out to NaturGut Ophoven with grandma and aunty. Entrance is free. In addition, one can book events for kids, all around the topic…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Last year for Helloween and Carnival, my son was Blue and Green from Rainbow Friends. This year, he wanted to be a…
What’s it like to feed a new golden hamster? Since Centex, my son’s first Golden, passed away, Centine, his successor, has been getting used to her new, big cage and furnishings. In contrast to him, who lived happily in his wooden labyrinth, she is digging lots of tunnels under the wooden cage and under the…
Oh no!!! My son’s hamster Centex passed away 🙁 He was barely a year old, and we took such great care of him. Maybe he fell off a ledge? We took all the wooden ledges out of the big cage we had gotten for him. Or, he hoarded some food and ate it when it…
What’s it like to visit the Irrland Adventure Park in the city of Kevelaer with its new attractions in 2024? We’ve been to this park the two years before already, and my son always enjoyed it tremendously at Irrland Park in Kevelaer. We went sliding down from the high silver tower, hid in the corn…
Have you ever held an American Eagle? Nope? It’s quite heavy, and when you look it in the eye and see its huge beak, you might be lucky to wear your sunglasses that day (at least I was). Lyons Cub “only” got to hold a barn owl (kids got smaller birds to hold), but still…
What’s it like to search for fossils in a quarry? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Today, we drove to the city of Hagen to meet the GeoKidz…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. It’s Easter Monday, a rainy day, so what better thing to do than to spend time together with the family, building things…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Educational toys are very important for children. Lyons Cub received his first junior microscope for Easter, and from his aunty, he got…
What’s it like to see insects trapped in amber under a microscope? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. For Easter this year, my budding scientist got a student…
What’s it like to go hiking and determine the name of plants with the help of the PlantNet App? Today, we went on a nature walk again, but this time, it was special, because we went hiking with a group of other parents with kids in Landschaftspark Fuhrkamp, with the goal of determining plants with…
What to give to a child who loves slime? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Lyons Cub loves slime; for example, he also likes to play with his…
What’s it like to observe specimen under a student microscope and to prepare specimen yourself? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Lyons Cub received a green Bresser junior…
What’s it like to visit Museum Koenig in the city of Bonn? Do you also have a child who loves museums? Lyons Cub was thrilled by the dinosaur exhibition in the Museum of Natural History in Munster and the early humans exhibition in the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann already, but today, we traveled to the…
What’s it like for a kid to win a beginner’s swimming badge? When is the right time to teach your child how to swim? There may be different answers to this question, but for us, we starting frequenting public swimming pools when Lyons Cub was about two-and-a-half years old. He learned some principal techniques to…
What’s it like to play soccer in a club with school children? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Sports is very important for children in order to train…
What’s it like to prepare for Easter with your kids? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. It’s Easter time here in Germany, which arrived with a stretch of…
What’s it like to play with LEGO’s at the new Megabricks place in Monheim? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. One of our favorite past-times, the Megabricks playcenter…
What’s it like to visit the aquarium in the Cologne Zoo? Well, we’ve been to Cologne several times already, to visit the Chocolate Museum, see the Gothic cathedral, and take a panorama trip on a ship on the Rhine River or to play at the indoor playground, Hoplop or visit the precious stones fair. This time, we went…
Can golden hamsters eat yogurt? Yes, they can!! Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Of course, we checked it on the Internet first and found out that dairy…
As a kid, we’ve probably all learned that dandelions are “poisonous.” We used to pluck the stalks into small pieces and pull them apart, throwing them into a bucket of water to watch them form cute, little ringlets. Do you know why? The dandelion stalks form rings because their inner side takes in more water…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. For this year’s carnival in the Rhineland, Lyons Cub needed two costumes — one that was kindergarten approved (Rainbow Friends Blue costume)…
What’s it like to attend a German carnival parade? Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. On February 10th, 2024, Lyons Cub and Lyoness went to the Langenfeld carnival…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. For German carnival 2024, Lyons Cub went as Blue from Rainbow Friends to his kindergarten party. He also has the Green costume…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. For his 6th birthday, Lyons Cub got the Hot Wheels Mario Kart Track Set Deluxe as well as two extensions (the piranha…