Night is falling, bedtime is looming and playtime is nearly over . . . but brave King Jack is more than a match for dragons and terrible beasties. This magical make-believe adventure, illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is the perfect bedtime tale for little boys and brave children everywhere.
We love reading this story to our kids as it brings back so many memories of kings and…
The labouring task of Christmas shopping will be turned into useful energy to power 1000 lights on Midsummer Place’s (a shopping centre in Milton Keynes) 20 ft tree. Elf and Fitness will be on hand to get the shoppers to walk across special paving slabs that will transfer the kinetic energy in their feet to power the lights.
Every year, 7.7 billion kWh of fossil-fuel energy is used to power…
London’s iconic Tower Bridge plays host to families this Christmastime with the largest interactive Victorian wooden advent calendar in the country. Children open an advent door a day and enjoy a truly adventurous time. Each will go home with a candy cane and an adventurer’s certificate.
The way in which we celebrate Christmas today actually has its origins back in Victorian Britain.
Number chunking, number lines and synthetic phonics – new teaching techniques brought in with the Labour Government’s 1999 Numeracy and Literacy Strategies – now mean that 95% of parents keen to help their children boost their grades are simply, ill-equipped to do so.
“Most parents do not understand how their children are taught, and it really isn’t a surprise”, says Geoffrey…
A very popular article by Dr Fox from our London Mums archive.
Typical features of allergic rhinitis are blocked, itchy and runny nose, sneezing and itchy eyes. However, in more severe cases they cause disturbed sleep, lethargy, sinusitis and glue ear. Whilst often being thought of as a problem of adulthood, allergic rhinitis is becoming increasingly common in children, affecting around 10% of…
Dear London Mums
It’s really almost Christmas although we have been bombarded with it since October…. Every year Christmas preparations start a month earlier.
Our Christmas party was a huge success, sold out and with over 250 mums and kids, Disney Princesses, Froogle entertainer and Santa in his Grotto bringing lots of pressies for everyone. You can check and get the pictures from…
Read this essential guide to surviving the festive season by Fiona Kirk Nutritionist and author of the best selling ‘2 Weeks in the Fast Lane’ diet book www.fatbustforever.com
The guide attached provides all you need to know to fend off the festive flab – plus a few additional pointers below.
As we all know buffets have the potential to make or break a healthy eating plan. On the…
Look no further for unique Christmas Gifts. This guide is brought to you by London Mums’ panel of testers! There is something for every taste and for every pocket.
GIFTS FOR HER (MUMS, GRANMAS, GIRLFRIENDS)
STRICTLY CHRISTMAS MAKE-UP COLLECTION 2011
Dance fever has taken over the nation again with the ninth series of Strictly Come Dancing. The Strictly Make-up collection designed by Head…
However successful we are in other areas of life, nothing makes us feel more inadequate than the feeling that we don’t measure up as parents. No feeling is more wretched than the feeling that “I’m just a bad parent.” Talking with a lot of Mums, and having been married to the mother of my own children for nearly 35 years, convinces me that such guilt trips are even more of a Mum…
There is something quite sweet about seeing a youngster with their shoes on the wrong feet – but when the child is insisting that they are on the correct feet and refuses to change them over – it stops being cute!
When graphic and website designer Ellen Lichtman’s daughter was three years old, she provided her mum with an “Aha!” moment that would, four years later…