Young children are much more intelligent than we give them credit for. While your little one might not be Einstein or Curie material quite yet, they do learn a tremendous amount just through everyday living. They learn about physics with toy bricks and maths when setting the table. As parents, we want to give our…
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Decorating A Child’s Bedroom With A Twist
Read moreDecorating a children’s bedroom can be very difficult, especially if you have twin girls as I do. Their characters, personalities and tastes are polar opposites. That means somehow we have to find a theme that both the girls are happy with, and believe me that is something that is incredibly difficult. You would think with…
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Giving The Girls Bedroom A Facelift With New Duvet Covers
Read moreWe live in a two bedroom bungalow, we have one bedroom and our seven year twin girls share a bedroom. A perfect arrangement you would think. Well not quite! Our twin girls are total opposites when it comes to their tastes and interests. In fact I call them my Superhero and Princess because of their…
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How A Tutor Helped My Children Pass Exams
Read moreWhen you have five children like me it can be very difficult to give them one to one time, especially when it comes to schoolwork and helping them prepare for exams. A few years ago when my now 21 year old daughter was halfway through her A’Level studies she was really struggling to understand one…
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Using The Internet of Things To Inspire Your Kids
Read moreIt’s no secret that computers are becoming increasingly important in the modern world. As time goes on, more and more people are relying on these machines to get their work done, and jobs of all shapes and sizes are wrapped up with them. Of course, most kids won’t want to learn about the work which…
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Going to the Park, Playing Board Games and hunting Easter Eggs: Entertaining Your Children
Read moreWith half-term just gone and the Easter holidays on the way, it’s that time to think of ways to entertain and keep my seven-year old twin girls occupied and happy. Hopefully I won’t look too bored, even though inside I will be screaming not another game of snakes and ladders please! As parents we definitely…
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Trying To Live A Zero Waste Life
Read moreFor quite a while my wife and I have become increasingly more aware of the amount of waste that we are dumping on our planet and just what a devastating effect it is having on planet earth. As such, we have decided to try to live a zero waste life. We both feel it’s vitally…
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Year 2 Parents Evening Half Term Begins
Read moreLast week was the last week in school for my twin girls before half term. That also means that parents evening falls in that week. I’m not sure about everybody else, but I always find parents evening a daunting experience. I always feel like an adult that has gone back to school for twenty minutes.…
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An Interview With Laura Dove Who Writes Five Little Doves
Read moreThis week I get to interview one of my favourite bloggers and dare I say it, a friend who I have met on a number of occasions. Laura really is one of the nicest bloggers I have met. She always has time to chat or help out another blogger. What makes Laura’s writing so special…
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World Book Day In Wales #AD
Read moreWorld book day has come around very quickly, and this year on March 7th we will be celebrating world book day with a simple message #shareastory. It’s a simple message yet for me an important message in the fast paced technological world we live in where everything is condensed down to an Instagram page or…
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Parenting Teenagers It’s Tough At Times
Read moreI have been blessed to have five children and there is no doubt about it, I feel privileged that in my lifetime I have become a dad five times. However, getting it right as a dad is incredibly difficult. I think I have bitten my tongue more times than I care to mention and I…
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Teaching Our Children Boundaries That Others Should Not Step Beyond
Read moreTeaching our children boundaries is so important to me, but it is not only the boundaries that they shouldn’t step beyond, it is also teaching them the boundaries that other people shouldn’t overstep with them. Our children, I believe, need to the learn to use the word NO, and to say, “Please don’t do that…
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Yes! I Survived Nearly 7 Years With Twin Girls
Read moreVery soon my twin girls will turn seven years old and, yes, I survived. It amazes me that I have! Becoming a dad to twin girls, and in my case as an older dad was a huge shock to my system, especially as my three older children at the time of the girls being born…
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Mental Health Our Young People And Social Media
Read moreThe world we currently live in is fast moving and technology is making the world move even faster. It’s actually crazy to think that many of our young people actually don’t have any idea what life was like without the internet or social media. It would be a very interesting study to take them back…
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An Interview Donna Wishart Who Writes “What The Redhead Said”
Read moreThis week I am interviewing Donna, she is one of biggest mum bloggers in the uk today and is currently ranked as #1 on the Tots 100 index. Donna writes What the Redhead said, one of the UK’s top family lifestyle blogs. What the Redhead said has evolved over time to become Donna’s full time…
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My Mental Health: The Stigma Of Mental Health Needs Eradicating For Our Young Peopled
Read moreFirst of all I would like thank Susie over at So Happy In Town. She has inspired this post with her amazing campaign. #itsoktofeelshit. The stigma surrounding mental health has certainly been broken down a lot since I was first diagnosed with depression in my teenage years. Back in those days I was quite simply…
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Domestic Abuse: Finally Society is Beginning To Accept Men Suffer Too
Read moreWhen we hear the phrases, domestic abuse or domestic violence, we naturally think that it is the female in the relationship that is being abused, and to some extent I can understand this. I mean after all, of all the cases of domestic violence or abuse that are reported to authorities, two thirds of them…
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Did Instagram Contribute To A 14 Year Old Taking Her Own Life?
Read moreLast week there was numerous newspaper articles and television stories about a father who is convinced that Instagram contributed to his 14 year old daughter taking her own life. This is because of the content that is readily available on Instagram concerning self harm and suicide. She was apparently viewing this very easily on the…
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An Interview With Aby Moore Founder Of You Baby Me Mummy
Read moreThis week is the start of my interviews with some of biggest mum bloggers currently in the UK and to start the interviews off, I get to interview the inspirational Aby Moore. Aby is a blogging strategist and founder of youbabymemummy.com, one of the UK’s top family lifestyle blogs. She has written for a range…
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Planning An Autism-Friendly Birthday Party
Read moreAutistic Spectrum Disorder is extremely common in children. It’s estimated that around 1 in 160 children is somewhere on the autistic spectrum. When you’re raising a child with autism, you understand that social interaction is extremely important for their development. It gives them experience coping in social situations and gives them much-needed experience in getting…
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Is The Smart Phone Really Killing Conversation: I Don’t Think So
Read moreWe are constantly hearing how the smart phone and technology in general are killing the art of conversation in the family home or in fact in our general lives. This got me thinking is it really that different to 30 years ago before the internet had been invented to the degree of where it’s at…
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