Preparing for the birth of your first child is an exciting time. While you await the arrival of your new baby, it can be easy to get swept up in the preparations, and that isn’t a bad thing. You can never really prepare for how your life will change once you become parents, and on…
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[AD] Childcare Offer for Wales Helping Working Parents Financially
It is mid-December and I’m sure like me, a lot of you are right in the middle of getting ready for Christmas. As a father of five children it is not a cheap time of year. For us as a married couple the strain on our finances are worse during the Christmas run up, than…
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[ad] Easy Ways To Bust Gender Stereotypes At Home
Gender stereotyping is everywhere. We see it in the workplace, where men and women still fall into the same job roles. We see it in children’s storybooks, where women are still the caregivers and mengo off to work. And we might even see it within people’s homes, where a mum might say “a woman’s work is never…
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[ad] Do Dads Deserve Down Time Too?
Parenting is a source of great joy for us all, and there are so many unexpected great things about raising small humans. However that’s bit to deny that parenthood comes with challenges, and it can frequently feel quite overwhelming. One of those challenges is just how intense small children can be – that unrelenting demand…
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[ad] The Perils Of Parenting: How To Help Your Kids Become Safe Drivers
There are few things more terrifying for parents than their teenagers starting to drive. That first lesson marks the start of watching out of the window with bated breath and devoting far too much time to awaiting news of a safe arrival. If you’re preparing for life with a learner in your midst, here are…
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[ad] 10 Top Tips For Surviving the Divorce Process
Finding the divorce process to be a difficult and emotional task? For my top tips on surviving a divorce, both mentally and physically, read on… For some, the divorce process can be trying matter. Especially for the unwilling divorcees who may still be in love with their partner, this can be heart-breaking. Whether you’re at…
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[ad]Children and Mental Health: What to Know?
Mental health is an issue for many people in the United States, and what we might not always realise as parents is that children can have mental health disorders as well as adults. For children, there may be situational events that trigger symptoms of a mental health disorder, or it may be ongoing. Regardless of…
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It Seems Such An Effort For People To Be Kind In Today’s World
A percentage of people in our world today have evolved into a grab all and not give their fellow human beings a thought of how their actions could be making somebody unhappy. This selfish behaviour is now so out of control that I personally worry about how our children are going to behave as they…
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How to Help Prepare Your Child for Life at College
It may only seem like five minutes since your kid took their first steps, uttered their first words, and started school. It turns out that all those well-worn parenting clichés were, in fact, true — all of them. Kids do grow up too fast, they really aren’t babies for very long, and parenting teenagers may…
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[ad] Lessons We Need to Teach Our Kids
We all hope and wish that our kids will go on to live out their lives happy, healthy and fulfilled. But many of us fail to teach our kids the incredibly important lessons needed to achieve this type of life. Being happy, healthy, fulfilled and ultimately leading a “successful” life takes a lot of learning,…
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[ad] 5 Easy Ways to Start Protecting Your Family’s Future
As a busy, active father, you want what’s best for your family. Unfortunately, things happen and it can sometimes be difficult to have the extra money to pay for emergency expenses and other necessary bills. In order to protect your assets as well as your family’s financial stability, it is time for you to make…
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Valentines Gifts For The Person Who Has Everything
Valentine’s day is almost upon us, and men (and women!) up and down the country are frantically trying to work out what to buy their beloved other half to celebrate the day of love. However, if you are married to the person who seemingly has everything, you might be finding it tough. Maybe you have…
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Is Putting A Tracker On Your Child’s Phone An Invasion Of Their Privacy?
The mobile phone or smart phone is now well and truly a part of modern society. There is no doubt that the benefits of a smart phone completely outweigh the disadvantages. However, a couple of difficult questions I have been asking myself recently are: what age should children have a smart phone? Should we be…
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[AD]Organising Our Twin Girls 8th Birthday Party
I cannot believe where the time has gone. We are now going to be celebrating our twin girls eighth birthday party at the end of this month, and as the years have gone by it’s been really interesting how they have developed their own characters and personalities. In fact it is like they are my…
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The Forgotten Plight of Flint
In most online spaces, she goes by the handle “Little Miss Flint”. You’ve no doubt heard of her. Little Miss Flint, whose real name is Mari Copeny, is thirteen years old. For the last several years, she has tried tirelessly to raise awareness about what’s happening in her hometown of Flint, Michigan. It’s not a…
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Let’s Protect Our Children’s Mental Health Listening And Talking That’s All It Takes
It’s children’s mental health week this week and there is no doubt that we need to highlight this important topic. The reason being is that mental health is without doubt still being brushed under the carpet. Even today the stigma surrounding mental health is still very much alive and kicking in the UK and that’s…
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[AD] Keeping Your Family Safe Online With SimpleCyberLife.com
Back last summer something happened to me online which made me question exactly how safe my family and I are online. Out of the blue I received an email from a complete stranger saying that photos of my seven year old twin girls and I were being used in a chat room which, to say…
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[ad] Find The Right Car For Your Teen
Are you at the point where it’s time to start looking at cars for your teen? If so, there are a few things that you need to consider. Keeping these factors in mind will ensure that you don’t make any mistakes when you are shopping for used cars on the market. Pexels Source CCO License…
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[ad] Giving Great Gifts – Suggestions To Help You Nail It
When it comes to gifting, we all want to be the master. To be the one that manages to get the perfect gift time after time. It’s not easy, though. It takes time, care, and close attention to what your intended recipient wants and needs. So here are some suggestions to get your gift-giving juices…
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[ad] 5 Fantastic Ways To Set A Health Example For Your Kids
One thing you’ll learn very quickly as a Dad is how much your kids rely on for everything. In the beginning, it means food, bathing, and basic activities they are too young to do at that stage of their lives. But, as they get older, it becomes apparent that they turn to their parents for…
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AD Making Sure Your Mental Health Is Ok After Becoming a Parent
There are few things in life that without doubt most of us will feel under pressure and our mental health will be under pressure. It could be moving home or getting married, but there is no doubt that one if not the biggest change in our lives is when you become a parent and this…