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Encouraging Young Children to Study
Getting young children excited about learning can be a difficult task, especially when there are so many other distractions. However, encouraging good study habits from a young age will make further and higher learning much easier for your children, giving them a head start for their education. Set a Routine Once your child starts school, put together a schedule that encourages study-time in the evening and when they start having work sent home from school, the time can be used {Read More}
My Little Adventurer Book Review and Competition
There’s nothing more enjoyable in the evening than sitting down with the children before bed and snuggling up together with a new story. We love reading in our house and without fail, we read two stories a night to the children. However, as much as I look forward to this special time together, sometimes the children pick the same books night after night. They seem to love the repetition of the story and anticipating what happens but from a parent’s {Read More}
Infant Colic
If your baby has ever suffered with colic, you will know just how stressful a time it can be; in fact you might feel like you’re never going to get out of the cycle of having a screaming baby. Infacol have created a study called Stress in the First Six Months and it highlighted that 95% of parents find having a baby stressful and having three makes the balancing act that much harder. “With three children, you don’t have time {Read More}
Wobbly Worm : Review
Sometimes when your children ask you to play a game with them, you dread what game they are going to choose – come on, it’s not just me, right? But with Wobbly Worm you don’t have to dread it, in fact, the whole family can play and actually enjoy it too. While the game says it’s for 2-3 players, we have adapted it so that you simply take it in turn to throw all the hoops, keeping a tally of {Read More}
Competitions
There’s nothing more enjoyable in the evening than sitting down with the children before bed and snuggling up together with a new story. We love reading in our house and without fail, we read two stories a night to the children. However, as much as I look forward to this special time together, sometimes the children pick the same books night after night. They seem to love the repetition of the story and anticipating what happens but from a parent’s {Read More}
Competitions
If your baby has ever suffered with colic, you will know just how stressful a time it can be; in fact you might feel like you’re never going to get out of the cycle of having a screaming baby. Infacol have created a study called Stress in the First Six Months and it highlighted that 95% of parents find having a baby stressful and having three makes the balancing act that much harder. “With three children, you don’t have time {Read More}
Competitions
If you struggle to get your children to wear a helmet when cycling or scooting, you might want to check out Mini Hornit helmets (Mini Hornit Lids)! They are super cool, bright and funky and fantastically designed to actually fit ensuring the head is properly protected. Each lid is fully adjustable to ensure a great fit and from a parents perspective, they are easy to adjust too (even when on!). I love how much the helmets actually cover and protect {Read More}
Competitions
It seems to me that younger and younger children are being given mobile phones of their own – whether it’s an older sibling or a parent’s old handset or whether they have been bought a brand new phone, young children seem to be sporting mobiles like fashion accessories. We’ve been looking at the PX1 a children’s mobile and putting it to the test. Now there is nothing to say that younger children shouldn’t be allowed mobiles but as a parent, {Read More}
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