Parenting
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Here’s How To Ensure That You Still Feel Like Yourself As A Parent
When you have had a baby, everything changes. You need to find a way to make sure you feel like yourself again. That’s what we’re going to be talking about in this article, so keep reading if you would like to find out more. Consider A Beauty Routine You might feel as though you don’t have any time for a beauty routine now that you are a parent. You do, you will just have to fit it in wherever you have got a moment. When your kids are napping, or at night when they are in bed, or even in the morning when you first wake up before the kids.…
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5 Fun Backyard Activities for Kids
In this day and age, children are often reluctant to set off on any outdoor adventures. Of course, this hasn’t always been the case. Aside from growing up with an endless range of technological distractions, younger generations are also more involved in educational downtime such as homework and studies. It certainly doesn’t help that a global pandemic continues to limit our opportunities to stay active and avoid the harmful effects of too much sedentary time. While you might not be able to take your kids on trips to the local park or zoo for now, solutions abound just beyond the back door. Stump Steps Let’s start with something simple. All…
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The Best Ways to Avoid Mess While Feeding Your Child
Feeding your child can be a messy business, and this is especially the case if you have a young baby. All of that extra cleaning up is not always going to be welcome, and it is a good idea to find ways to reduce the amount of mess that is being made during mealtimes. Messy Children Some children are messier than others when it comes to feeding time. Certain children absolutely love to throw their food around and play with it, whereas others are happier to simply eat the food with less fuss. If you have a child who is messy at mealtimes, then you will already know just how…
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Tips for Breastfeeding in Public
As you will know as a parent, breastfeeding is a completely natural, normal, and often necessary way to feed a young child. Feeding your baby will obviously be something you need to do several times throughout the day, and for many parents, this involves the act of breastfeeding. When you are breastfeeding at home, you will likely not even think twice about doing so, but when you are in public, you may have some reservations. These reservations could be to do with your own ideas about not wanting to breastfeed in public or could be more to do with the opinions of other people. Breastfeeding in Public Breastfeeding your child…
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Working from Home with Kids Around: My Top Tips
Due to the lock down situation, many people are finding themselves in the situation where they are working from home with kids around. With no childcare options and an income to maintain, we have no choice. Let’s be real… It. Is. Awful. But it won’t last forever – thank God. Let me start by saying that you cannot physically be a perfect mum/dad AND a brilliant employee simultaneously, you need to take the pressure off yourself and allow ‘good enough’ to be your new aim. I am the mum to a 4 year old girl and a newly 3 year old boy. Ever since I left the world of accountancy…
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Essentials that Every Parent Should Invest In
When you have a kid, you want to give them the world on a plate. Your whole perspective on life changes, as suddenly you want the best for them and will prioritise their needs at all times. Now, there are so many different things you can do to help their kids with this. But here are a few that will often prove most beneficial. Life Insurance Life insurance really is an essential if you have others relying on you. Why? Well, if something were to happen to you, you don’t want your loved ones left trying to pull together funeral costs and without any means of getting by. The grieving…
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Easy Bubble Mixture Recipe Without Glycerine
Hello, looks like you have found this post because you are looking for an easy bubble mixture recipe. My kids LOVE bubbles. We go through bubble mixture incredibly fast… especially when my two year old takes control of the bubble wand and inevitably tips out the mixture onto the ground within a few seconds. I have been getting a bit fed up of repeatedly buying new tubs of bubble mixture – not only is it expensive (like, hello, £7 for 2 litres?!) but all that plastic is so wasteful. So I thought I would try to make it myself. Unfortunately a lot of the recipes I have found call for…
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Surviving Social Isolation with Pre-School Kids
It’s been a little over a week and a half now since Boris told us all to stay home. We are all in different boats when it comes to all sorts of things – our jobs, our homes, our financial circumstances, our families. But I thought I would write a quick blog post from my perspective showing how I am coping – maybe this might help you too. For background, I am a stay at home mum (although I do a bit of part time work from home) to a 2 year old and a 4 year old. My husband is working from home full time, during this period of…
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Top Tips For Car Seat Safety You Need
When you become a parent, you get bombarded by lists of essentials online. In parenting groups, parenting websites and beyond, you’ll be told all of the different things that your new baby will need. One of the things on that list will be a car seat for your new baby and boy, are you going to face a whole range of different issues when it comes to car seats! Children’s car seats are complicated. You’d think it would be easy: strap them in and off you go. However, you need to know the rules of rear-facing car seats, forward facing car seats, car seats and airbags – the list goes…
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Creative Ways to Get Your Kids Active
Some parents are lucky enough to have children who just love being active; they’re whirlwinds of activity who never seem to sit still for a moment, while other parents have trouble getting their kids to move off the couch. If you happen to have the latter, you may well be concerned about the effect their inactivity is having on their health, and if that is the case, you need to get creative… Plan a Treasure Hunt Okay, so this isn’t something that you could do every day, but there is no reason why you couldn’t plan a weekly treasure/scavenger hunt, and what better way to motivate the kids to get…