Did you know it’s Global Handwashing Day? | Teaching Your Kids The Importance of Handwashing
Handwashing – it’s something I think most of us learn the hard way as parents. I mean, we all *know* about washing our hands but when we’re busy (show me a parent, I’ll show you someone with a million things to do in the next ten minutes) it’s easy to let it slip a bit. You teach your kids to wash their hands, but as they grow you can’t watch them every second, and you just trust that they’re...
Have A BERRY Good Day – and Nominate Someone Else For One Too!
So new research tells us that by 8.12 in the morning, our mood is set. By that early point in the day, we’ve already determined if it’s going to be a good day – or a bad one. I admit it though – I’m sceptical. Of course we’ve all had those mornings where everything just swings along perfectly, and you find yourself humming happily with a small smile on your face for no good reason – just...
Pencils Down, It’s Time To Play…
Our school-aged children spend approximately 7 hours a day at school (I know that seems a very long time to a Home Edder like me, but it’s also long by European standards); and that’s before extra commitments like Breakfast Club for working parents, plus after-school tuition and clubs are factored in. As a result, 92% of parents fundamentally believe teachers share the responsibility of nurturing a child’s emotional wellbeing....
The 2:36 slump, the ‘Green Paper’ – and floating monkeys…
During your normal busy day, how often do you stop, step back and relax? No, me either. It’s not really allowed, is it? There’s always a other thing to do, just one more email to send, one more task still sitting on the To Do List, one phone call you keep forgetting so you’d better just do it now… Taking time out just feels… wasteful, doesn’t it? There’s always something more important you...
In-Depth Review of the Teeter EP-560: Best Inversion Table for Back Pain?
Age is a funny thing. You skip through your days quite happily and, as long as your health isn’t disastrous, I don’t think you give the mechanics of your body a second thought, do you? Then one day you notice you’ve started to “ooh!” when you sit down suddenly. You gather yourself before standing up from a low seat. You think twice about carbs in the evening (and Gaviscon mysteriously appears in your medicine cabinet). Climbing...
7 Ways to Stay Cool When You Sleep
We’ve all been guilty of complaining about the long winter, only for summer to come and us to start to protest that it is in fact, too hot. Us Brits aren’t great with the heat, it’s no secret. We become so used to the cold that once it peaks 14 degrees the shorts are on, the barbecue is fired up and the suntan lotion comes out. During the day the extra heat certainly doesn’t go amiss, however, when you’re trying to sleep, it can get a...