The majority of us use the internet every day. It allows us to instantly access information and stay connected with friends and family. However, many parents worry about their children’s safety whilst using the internet. There are risks involved in allowing your child to go online unsupervised, or without the correct parental controls in place.…
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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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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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How To Teach Kids The Value Of Money
Read moreAccording to Statista, the average amount of pocket money a 12-year-old receives is about £6 per week. It can be easy to spoil children and give them some very bad habits when it comes to money and spending. Photo by Damir Spanic on Unsplash Teaching children about the value of money and the importance of…
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The Ultimate Guide To Showing That You Care’
Read moreIn the time of coronavirus, our psyche has been rocked. What we took for granted in our lives has had to morph into a new normal. At the beginning of the year, you were probably planning for your summer vacation and looking forward to spending some time with family and friends. This has now been…
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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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How to Create the Perfect Rear Garden Space for the Kids
Read moreAre you struggling to get the kids to put down their electronic devices and get outdoors? Does it feel like screen time is the only thing they are actually interested in? Do you wish there was a way to get them outside that didn’t involve fighting, pouting, and firm words? It may just be that…
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5 Creative Ways to Feed Your Kids a Healthier Diet
Read moreKids are notoriously averse to eating their vegetables and eating a healthy diet in general. Parents often fight an uphill battle to ensure their child gets all the nutrients they need. Want to expand the dietary repertoire of a fussy eater? You may find some of the following unorthodox approaches to feeding your children helpful…
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[AD] Back To The Garden With Sudocrem During Lockdown
Read moreI have recently teamed up with Sudocrem and their Back To The Garden campaign. You can read my first post here. Finding things to do for my eight year old twin girls during lockdown and the fact that they have been off school has been without question a challenge at times. So the Back To…
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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 Stay Strong for Your Kids During a Crisis
Read moreWe keep hearing about how much we can do during this pandemic. Use your free time to learn a new language or build a go-cart… But what if you’re using all your available energy just to hold everything together? With this COVID19 crisis (and with any crisis) comes a great deal of stress and uncertainty.…
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[AD] 3 Valuable Life Lessons To Teach Kids When They’re Young
Read moreAs a dad, you’ve got many different hats that you don every single day. Today, it’s time to put on your teacher’s hat as you provide some much-needed wisdom to your children. As of writing this, most of you are in a lockdown situation due to the COVID-19 crisis. You probably have lots of time…
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[ad] The Perils Of Parenting: How To Help Your Kids Become Safe Drivers
Read moreThere 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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It Seems Such An Effort For People To Be Kind In Today’s World
Read moreA 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
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] Getting Help With Your Mental And Physical Health
Read moreIn todays world with all of its pressures and how fast the world moves, people in general are under undue stress and the strains on everyday life can be become all very hard to deal with. Many of us have at different times during our lives suffered from many different issues with our mental health…
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[ad] Tips for Single Parents Who Want to go Back to School
Read moreHigher education programs are really hard to get through, add a child or two into the mix and suddenly things are twice as hard. In general, about 1 out of every 4 undergraduate students has at least one child dependent on them with about half of them being single parents. This can bring up a…
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Is Putting A Tracker On Your Child’s Phone An Invasion Of Their Privacy?
Read moreThe 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
Read moreI 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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[AD] Keeping Your Family Safe Online With SimpleCyberLife.com
Read moreBack 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
Read moreAre 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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