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Remember when you were little and spent afternoons building race tracks out of sand for little plastic cars? Or in my case, I mostly watched my brothers do so as I was "too little" to praticipate. They spent time and effort making the perfect race track, and then raced their tiny race cars around it with the other neighborhood kids.    This game is called Neppis in Finnish, and the tiny plastic cars are forever imprinted in my memory. I've learned that while Neppis went out of fashion for a while, it has since started coming back. Now there are...

Kangaroo care, family beds, your baby using you as a pillow or insisting you stay close when they sleep.. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why children sleep so much sounder when a carer is near? The smaller the child the less of an understanding they have of what sleep means. They are not sure what happens when they fall asleep and if they will still find the world as they know it when they come back. Will they still be in the same place? Are mummy or daddy going to still be there? For a child to fall...

As you may have noticed, Small Nordics has been unusually quiet in the last couple of months. This is because we've been going through some changes. Mari who's done an amazing job of getting Small Nordics going, has moved on to other projects and I've taken over the activities. It's taken us a couple of months to get all the admin details sorted, which is why we've been a little quiet.   Some things have remained the same though.    Small Nordics will continue to be run by a Finnish woman living in Italy. I'm super excited about this new adventure...