Get Your Child Ready for a Test With These Tips
Jan18

Get Your Child Ready for a Test With These Tips

Preparing for a test can be stressful for both children and parents. However, with the right guidance, your child can be equipped to tackle the upcoming exam with confidence! Below I’ve listed some helpful tips on how to get your child ready for their next test. With these strategies, your child will be well-prepared to take the test and come out successfully.Parents of teens should also definitely read our advice for parenting...

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When’s the best time to put a TV in your children’s bedroom?
Jan16

When’s the best time to put a TV in your children’s bedroom?

Have you put a TV in your children’s bedroom? How old were or are they? It’s one of those unexpected parenting dilemmas, isn’t it? We all knew there’d be decisions over names and vaccines and weaning and bedtimes. But who knew we’d be making a parenting decision over 4K TVs? Seriously, did any of us expect the endless stressful undercurrent of constant parental decision-making (when should I allow them to...

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The best spare bed – go Aerobed. No, really.
Jan08

The best spare bed – go Aerobed. No, really.

A couple of years ago we took a risk, and instead of pulling the various parts of the old pine bed out of the loft (and the old double mattress out of the garage), we asked my disabled Father In Law to sleep on an airbed for Christmas. Not as harsh as it sounds – we’re not talking an old rubber pump-up on the floor. We were talking a properly good big-and-solid Platinum Aerobed. Being a polite sort, he agreed to give it a...

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Our Favourite Etsy Buys 2022
Dec01

Our Favourite Etsy Buys 2022

Here it is – my personal round up of my Top Etsy Buys For Christmas. And this is why I’m sharing such a random list of odds… I saw a call on Twitter yesterday, someone looking for help with their Christmas gift buying. The items they were hunting for were so SO perfect, I needed to share them: Twitter, can I borrow you in case you have come across the following on your travels? – a warm, soft blanket in jolly...

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Family Game Night Games – Dixit
Oct10

Family Game Night Games – Dixit

We’ve been determined for months now to start playing regular Family Game Night Games. So when Asmodee got in touch and asked if we’d like to receive a selection of Family Game Night Games, I’ll admit I bit their hand off. Finally, I was going to HAVE to get organised and sit down for some serious fun with the whole family; and it wouldn’t even be Christmas or on holiday!(you can see last week’s review of Catan here) Dixit was a...

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Family Game Night Games – Settlers of Catan
Oct03

Family Game Night Games – Settlers of Catan

We’ve been determined for months now to start playing regular Family Game Night Games. So when Asmodee got in touch and asked if we’d like to receive a selection of Family Game Night Games, I’ll admit I bit their hand off. Finally, I was going to HAVE to get organised and sit down for some serious fun with the whole family; and it wouldn’t even be Christmas or on holiday! If you are a fan of video games,...

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