Fashion & Beauty

Christmas Beauty Essentials - Gifting ideas

The Winter season is tough on our skin so it’s important during the festivities to treat our body like a temple. Here are my favourite Christmas Beauty Essentials to end the year with a glow. Olverum bath Oil 125ml  RRP £23.45 Olverum Bath Oil is a beauty essential item that every woman deserves in her Me-Time to sooth and revive while everyday stress and tension evaporate in a long…
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Parenting Skills

How to keep your children safe from cyberbullies

As a psychotherapist, I’ve worked with many children and parents who’ve found themselves at the mercy of cyberbullies. The abuse is more common and unrelenting than you might think. According to the CyberSmile Foundation, 55% of children in 2015 had experienced online bullying, but if you need more evidence just look at the increase in awareness events. November is Anti-Bullying month, with…
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Fashion & Beauty

Fashion Trends: Autumn / Winter fashion for mums on the go

I love fashion and read magazines all the time showing amazing looking girls with perfect bodies displaying outfits I could only dream of, not just from the cost perspective but more importantly because I don’t have that figure and will never have it despite watching out what I eat and keeping fit. Let’s face it! Normal mums on the go at school runs every day have to wear practical…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Check into the Career Confidence Spa!

Summer’s over and Autumn is on its way – perfect timing to take a break and assess what’s working and what needs some attention in your career. Maybe you’re thinking of returning to work after a break or maybe you’re ready to ramp up your career now the kids are a bit older. Whatever your situation you can bet there are some self-limiting beliefs lurking around and some inner critics…
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Schooling

Helping your child with times tables

Parents are always on call with homework support. Times tables are essential for maths and children need quick multiplication skills throughout high school, college, and life. Mum and dad need a lot of patience to help their child work with and enjoy the quest of conquering these figures, but be sure that it is well worth it in the end. In this feature London Mums offer help and tools that will…
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Parenting Skills

Speaking with Heart

This Summer I attended a very inspirational event filled with new authors whom I would describe ‘writers from the heart’, i.e. people whose lives have been touched by dramatic events and have consequently written books inspired by their feelings. One of these writers from the heart who touched me as a mother is Carmella B’Hahn. This is her story told in her own words. Read them and…
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Schooling

Back to school Essentials 2015

Sending your child to school needn’t cost an arm and a leg so, like every year over the Summer, London Mums have gone on the hunt for the best bargains in back to school essentials and here are our findings. School Uniforms London Mums’ favourite retailer in back to school essentials in 2015 has to be Aldi which has new Specialbuys in the Back to School range in stores. Presenting…
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Fitness & Health

Important news for parents of teenagers! New meningococcal vaccination programme expected to save lives

Public Health England (PHE) is welcoming the start of the new MenACWY vaccination programme that will offer teenagers protection against meningitis (inflammation of the brain) and septicaemia (blood poisoning) caused by four meningococcal strains including MenW. From 3rd August 2015, GPs will be inviting teenagers aged 17 and 18 (born between 01 September 1996 and 31 August 1997) for the vaccine.
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Parenting Skills

Help and advice on achieving quality sleep for you and your baby

It can be difficult for the whole family when you have a baby that doesn’t sleep well. You and your partner are constantly tired and tense which can cause problems with each other as well as with yourself. You could become irritable, forgetful and even depressed, and despite your best efforts, a sleep deprived parent is simply not capable of being the best parent they could be. Here’s some…
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Baby & Toddlers

My Darkest Parent Days

Hello, My name is Laura and I am a mother of two sweet little girls Niamh and Annie. I would like to share with you my story as I am hoping it could help you, if you experience the same or similar problems with your kids. My daughter Niamh is nearly three and she hasn’t been a good sleeper since birth, because she has allergies, asthma, hay fever, she is intolerant to dairy, so she has…
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