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5 Tips For Adapting Your London Home For A New Arrival

February 1, 2024 | Leave a Comment

Welcoming a new family member is a significant event, and ensuring your home in London is ready for this change is crucial. Whether it’s a baby, a younger sibling, or an elderly relative moving in, Here are five practical tips to help you prepare your London home for a new arrival. Here are five practical […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: babies, children, Home Decor

7 Ways to Create a Play-Based Learning Environment at Home

November 6, 2022 | Leave a Comment

It’s no secret that play is an important part of a child’s development. In fact, play is so important that the United Nations have recognised it as a human right! Many parents don’t know that they can create a play-based learning environment for their children right at home. You can focus on a variety of […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: children, education, play-based learning

How to restart your fitness routine after having kids

March 23, 2022 | Leave a Comment

It’s perfectly normal for your whole life to be put on hold when you have kids, but it’s important to take care of yourself as well as your little ones. However, once your children have grown up a bit, it’s difficult to carry on putting off your return to the gym. While a crying baby […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: children, fitness, fitness routine, health

5 Tips On How To Get De-stressed Hanging Out With Your Kids

June 9, 2021 | Leave a Comment

5 Tips On How To Get De-stressed Hanging Out With Your Kids

All parents can agree that as much as we love our children, spending time with them doesn’t always go hand-in-hand with a relaxing, easy-going day. In some cases, it can seem like we have to choose between our downtime and our children.  While parenting is certainly challenging to an inexplicable degree, it doesn’t have to […]

Filed Under: Baby-Toddlers, kids, Lifestyle Parenting, parenting Tagged With: children, destressing, entertaining kids, Games for kids, Hobbies, stress, toys

Best kid-friendly destinations for summer holidays

June 2, 2019 | Leave a Comment

With the summer months fast approaching, many parents are scrambling online to find the best spots for the annual family holiday. If you’ve got kids, there are several things to think about before booking your trip. For example, is the destination family-friendly, is there a kid’s club and how long is the travel time to […]

Filed Under: Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Travel Tagged With: children, Disney, families, family friendly holidays, holidays with kids, Kids, Travel

Little Princess Grand Piano

October 18, 2018 | 1 Comment

Kids love music and despite noisy toys sending you insane because you haven’t had a moment of silence all day, it’s a brilliant way for your child to expand their skills. I have been lucky enough to receive the Big Steps Groove Little Princess Grand Piano by Smyths Toys to review. Let’s see what it’s all […]

Filed Under: Baby-Toddlers, Lifestyle Parenting, Reviews Tagged With: children, Kids, piano, play, Smyths, smyths toys

Smyths Squirrel Play Wooden Sort ‘n’ Play Activity Cube

September 29, 2018 | Leave a Comment

As parents, we want the best for our children which includes their development improving and reaching their milestones. With my ten-month-old, Sienna, I find it essential to have educational toys in order to prepare her for nursery which is why I rely on Smyths Toys. THE SQUIRREL PLAY WOODEN SORT ‘N’ PLAY ACTIVITY CUBE At […]

Filed Under: kids, Lifestyle Parenting Tagged With: children, christmas, Kids, review, Smyths, smyths toys, toys

21 Awesome Paw Patrol Birthday Party Ideas

January 26, 2017 | 3 Comments

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If you are thinking of throwing a Paw Patrol Birthday Party then this is the post for you. Paw Patrol is such an amazingly popular birthday party theme we thought we would come up with 21 Paw Patrol Birthday Party Ideas that will make your party awesome. This very popular show is not only for […]

Filed Under: Party Ideas Tagged With: Birthday Cake, Birthday gifts, birthday parties, birthday party ideas, children, Kids, parenting, Paw Patrol Birthday Party Ideas

Win a fantastic Roald Dahl Box set

March 3, 2016 | 7 Comments

Win a fantastic Roald Dahl Box set

To celebrate World Book Day we have a fantastic prize to giveaway courtesy of Cottages.com. A fantastic site that caters for everything you are looking for from a cottage holiday. Take a look at just some of the fantastic places where you can stay that inspired some of the top authors to write some of yours […]

Filed Under: Lifestyle Parenting, Previous Competitions Tagged With: books, Character, children, childrens books, COMP, competition, giveaway, Kids, reading, Win, world book day

Storytelling Britain – Tourist Attractions & Places to Stay

February 27, 2016 | 1 Comment

Storytelling Britain - Tourist Attractions & Places to Stay - Infographic

Britain is packed full of literary connections so to help you find the perfect day out, the book worms at holiday company www.cottages.com have created a map of the best tourist attractions to visit to immerse yourself in the worlds of your child’s favourite authors and stories. If you’ve always wanted to explore the places […]

Filed Under: Life-style, Lifestyle Parenting, Travel Tagged With: Activities, adventure, Character, children, family, Kids, National Trust, Paddington, Paddington Bear, world book day

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