Kids Club

New charitable initiative to encourage children’s art activities in Beckton

To mark the opening of the new Attic Self Storage premises in Beckton, local primary school students are being asked to draw or paint a picture depicting the ‘Beauty of Beckton’ and show what they like or enjoy about the area. The artworks must be submitted via post or uploaded online here.The closing date for submissions is 19th June 2022. Image by Bob Dmyt from Pixabay The…
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Parenting Skills

Course review: Emotional resiliance programme for children

There has been much hype about the growth mindset, so I wanted to check it out. When I found the growth mindset programme with Growth Mind Kid, a company specialising in helping parents help their children develop emotional resilience and secure attachment, I decided to give it a go. I was a bit sceptical at first but was pleasantly surprised. The online growth mindset programme is a sequence of…
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Get Creative

Tips on how to record your loved one's memories and stories in a digital format

Recording your loved ones fondest recollections is a kind present you may give to them far and wide. It’s a method to communicate with your departed loved ones and provide them comfort and support even if you’re unable to be there for them in person. One may say that we are now experiencing the first generation that lives almost entirely online. Every day, even if you just use one…
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Travel with kids

Star parents Bradey & Heather Jobson! Ten ways to raise more culturally aware children

Every parent wants to raise open-minded, well-rounded, kind and thoughtful children and a great way to do that is through international travel. However, international travel and immersion into foreign philosophies are not always possible for many families. So, how can we raise accepting kids who are culturally aware without experiencing it first-hand on foreign soil? We posed the question to…
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Movies

Film review: Top Gun: Maverick starrring Tom Cruise

36 years afterTop Gun (1986) hit cinemas worldwide, Tom Cruise returns in his flight suit as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for Top Gun’s sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. This filmfollows now Captain ‘Maverick’, who has purposely avoided an advancement in rank after thirty years of service, while he is put in charge of a training group ofTopGungraduates for a special…
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Baby & Toddlers

BlissBaby – Less cry, More sleep with Lufti, the Natural Colic & Gas Reliever

Around 20% of newborns suffer from colic and about 30% of babies are regularly constipated. As a result new parents often see their loved ones in agony with strong belly pain and cramps due to trapped air and ‘solids’. Wind is something that affects most babies at some time or another and usually comes from swallowing air while baby is feeding or crying. Other reasons for gas can be…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Award-winning agency launches new digital brand

Nutcracker Agency unveils new digital marketing arm, helping clients see commercial value of digital marketing. Multi-award-winning London agency, , recently announced the launch of Nutcracker Digital – the digital marketing arm to their business. Since arriving on the agency scene in May 2014, Nutcracker has disrupted and challenged how agencies service the clients, how brands are built…
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Product reviews

Gardening made simple review and exclusive offer to London Mums

My friends would say that I am not the gardening type and that I don’t have much of a green thumb. Well, it’s kind of true and I only have a small garden. However, recently I was gifted a Gin kit from Muddy Trowelthat has made gardening very easy for me. With Spring now in full bloom, the state of our outdoor spaces at home is well and truly in focus. From family…
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Movies

Film review: Sing 2

The ever-optimistic Koala, Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), and his cast have big dreams of staging their most dazzling show yet in the glittering entertainment capital of the world, Redshore City. There’s just one hitch: they must persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star, Clay Calloway (Bono), to join them. Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), Ash (Scarlett Johansson), Johnny (Taron Egerton)…
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