Mums Tips

The Big Spring Clean: How to clean your appliances

I love Spring and somehow every year during this season I feel the urge to deep Spring clean my house. I keep writing new blogs about it because ultimately I enjoy cleaning. Here I am sharing simple tips along with a practicalvisual includinghacks and tricks to clean your appliances. It’s not always necessary to buy expensive bottled products from the supermarketsto get…
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Parenting Skills

Four steps to breaking the news of a separation to your child

When going through the difficult time of a separation, having children involved can become an emotional minefield. Aside from looking after yourself and powering through, you also need to make sure that the little ones don’t end up as your divorce’s collateral damage. More and more children are experiencing their parents separating, and the process can affect their wellbeing if it’s not…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Tips on How to Fund your Mumpreneur Business

Are you ready to get started on the scary world of being a Mumpreneur? It could be that you already have an idea or concept in mind – and can’t wait to put the plan into action. Sometimes a hurdle to getting things started is funding to go towards the set-up costs. If that’s the case – you might find our tips on how to fund your project and mumpreneur…
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Parenting Skills

How to help your child 'resist' the Fortnite charme

With big breaking storiesevery daygiving worrying new insightintothe dangers of social media and screen-time to our children, and as a mum to a 12 year old boy ‘addicted’ to Fortnite, I am looking at ways to keep my son off the highly addictive video game which has been compared to heroine. I have been reading reports about the devastating effects of gaming platforms…
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Fitness & Health

Me-time: Why parents shouldn't feel guilty for taking time for themselves

Me-time or no me-time? That is the question…Across the globe, there are 258 worldwide births per minute, resulting in a huge 516 individuals becoming parents for either the first time or expanding their family further every 60 seconds. Only parents know the true extent that having a child can have on your life, with time, energy and undivided attention required at all times. With no…
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Special Kids

Helping Your Child with Autism Get a Good Night’s Sleep

Children who place on the autism spectrum can struggle with several aspects of life. Most commonly, people think of how loud, active environments can trigger a negative response in autistic children thanks to the sensory overload it can lead to. However, this is only part of autism spectrum disorder. Another common problem that can occur for children placing on the autism spectrum is…
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Baby & Toddlers

Baby Sensory’s ‘Say Hello to the Sun’ ranks UK Number One in Kids iTunes Chart Knocking ‘Baby Shark’ off the Top Spot

The 20 year-old song inspired by the Earth’s natural elements also beat Elton John’s ‘Can you Feel the Love Tonight’ and Toy Story’s ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ by Randy Newman. Popular preschool sensory class provider, Baby Sensory (www.babysensory.com),has been celebrating its historic chart victory recently, having reached number one in the children’s UK singles charts…
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Parenting Skills

Social Media and Parenting- Author of Your Guilty Secret discusses how social media has impacted her own experience as a mother

Whilst researching my latest novel, Your Guilty Secret, about an A list celebrity whose life unravels in the full glare of the public eye, I bumped into an old acquaintance. I hadn’t seen her for years, but she started to tell me about the exotic holiday she’d just returned from with her kids. “It was sheer hell,” she said. “The children didn’t sleep. One of them was sick. I got food…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

It's never too late to follow your dream job

Author of Your Guilty Secret discusses how there is no bad time to chase the career you have always dreamed of. It was not until I was in my mid-thirties before I decided to follow my dream of writing a novel. I’m now about to have my second book published – Your Guilty Secret – which is about an A-list celebrity whose life unravels in the public eye. With my first novel, The Exclusives…
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