You might feel bad at first for wanting to keep a tighter grip on your child’s cell phone, but you shouldn’t. You, as their parent, have a responsibility towards them to keep them safe at all costs, and that’s precisely what you’re doing by taking extra precaution towards their safety. You never know what could…
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How To Maximize Your Childs Happiness
Read moreWhether you are a single parent or in a relationship, or have one child or more, you will know how important a child’s happiness is. Sometimes children can find it difficult to show their true emotions or know how to deal with them. As a parent, it is crucial to help your children it is…
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Is Hard Water Harming Your Children?
Read moreAn exemplary parent cares for their children more than anything else in the world. As such, what your children put in their body should be one of the most supervised things. Water is a prime example of a source that can be contaminated with all sorts of things. And while we all know that water…
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Giving Your Kids The Knowledge To Handle The Future
Read moreKids need to learn a lot of things about the way the world works, and often enough, they don’t get taught this knowledge at school. For example, understanding the value of money, how to work hard and get what they want out of a career, and simply being street savvy, all starts at home –…
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Help Feed A Child This Christmas With Dole’s #UnstuffedBears Campaign
Read moreThe year 2020 is going to be remembered for only one reason. The pandemic that is Covid-19. However, there have been so many other problems that have been caused by the pandemic. For example, families struggling due to being made redundant. In addition, those who still have a job have seen their incomes reduce. As…
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How To Turn Your Kids’ Room Into Your Big Kids’ Room
Read moreYour kids grow up quick and one minute you’re painting the nursery eagerly waiting for them to arrive, the next thing they’re climbing out of their cot. This means it’s time to move into a big bed and Paw Patrol or Thomas the Tank Engine takes over the room. Then eventually they grow out of…
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What to Do About a Violent Child
Read moreIf your child is violent or aggressive, it can feel stressful and heartbreaking for you as a parent. There are some situations where a parent could know where violent or aggressive tendencies stem from. For example, maybe a child was part of a violent home for a period of time. In other cases, you may…
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4 Things to Do with Kids to Help Them Cope During the Pandemic
Read moreThe pandemic has made things difficult for families in 2020. It’s true for both kids and parents. However, if you’re a parent, you might feel like this situation is particularly challenging if you have younger children. The reality is that your youngster might not understand why all this change is happening. Maybe they were about…
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[AD] Healthy Snacks For Active Kids With The Whitworths Sunny Snack Range
Read moreMy eight year old twin daughters are now finally back in school full-time after six months off due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the summer holidays. It has been a long time and one of the most important things during the last six months has been staying active and we as a family now have…
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Helping Your Child Develop Strong Social Skills
Read morePositive and regular social interactions will play a key role in your child’s life, on both a personal level and with regards to their academic performance in school. With that said, it’s important for parents to help their children build strong social skills, while taking into account that children are inherently more socially proficient than…
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[AD] Soothing The Smallest With Sudocrem & Ickle Pickles Win A Cuddly Panda Toy
Read moreEvery year, 1 in 8 babies are born prematurely or unwell, that’s 100,000 babies every single year. These babies need to spend weeks, sometimes months, in neonatal care units before they are strong enough to leave. Neonatal intensive care costs the NHS £1,500 per day and many hospitals do not have the equipment to care…
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Top Ten Easy Science Experiments For Kids
Read moreThroughout early education, children are typically taught a curriculum consisting of reading, mathematics and art. While these subjects are an important foundation for a child’s future schooling, lessons in science are often woefully lacking. In truth, about 25% of parents do not think science is being emphasised enough in school. Luckily, encouraging a child’s interest…
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What unisex children’s clothing to choose?
Read moreContrary to popular opinion, shopping for kids is very tasking. It is especially hard to find pieces of essential clothing that are specific to a certain gender. However, there are several unisex children’s clothing from which you can choose. Below are some of the main ones. 1. T-shirts T-shirts are one of the most popular…
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The Best Things About Having Teenaged Kids
Read more“Sure, they’re cute now. But just you wait until they’re teenagers!”. How many times have Dads (and Mums for that matter) heard words to that effect? How many prognostications have doom and gloom have we heard about the moody and belligerent monsters our kids are going to be? How often are we told to enjoy…
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[AD] Exploring Moral Values with Your Kids
Read moreTeaching your child moral values from a young age will help them grow up to be a kind, hard-working, respectable individual. Little people don’t always understand rules or appropriate ways to behave and its important for you, as parents, to point them in the right direction. I have teamed up with an independent school in…
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How to Help Prepare Your Child for Life at College
Read moreIt 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
Read moreWe 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] 10 Pregnancy Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed
Read moreNo two single pregnancies have the same effect on a woman. Some women may experience constant exhaustion, lack of energy, and never-ending nausea, while others go through pregnancy surprisingly energized and chic. While it’s not possible to predict the outcome and experiences of pregnancy, certain hurdles remain constant. Here are some of the most common…
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4 Ways To Keep You And Your Children Sane On Holiday
Read moreLet’s face it, there will be an inevitable family row on any holiday, be it the school holidays, or travel away with the family. But it doesn’t have to be that way the whole holiday! There are ways to wind down the chaos on the inevitable toddler tantrum or break away from the big bad…
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Are We Changing The Way We Cherish Family Memories?
Read moreWhenever I look at feeds on social media, mainly Instagram, I’m constantly bombarded with posts about how people are making family memories and then I see the word AD. Firstly let me just say that I have absolutely no problem with social media influencers, bloggers, and vloggers etc making money from their feeds. I earn…
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The Importance of Sleep for Kids’ Emotional Well-being
Read moreKids need more sleep than any other age group, but they don’t seem to be getting enough. According to recent data released by the CDC, only 25.4% of high school students get more than 8 hours of sleep every night, and that percentage decreases a little more every year. While it’s not entirely clear what’s…
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