Fitness & Health

First Aid for Bumps and Bruises

This article covers the important topic of first Aid for bumps and bruises. It is a vital part of children’s development learning to take measured risks and this means it is almost inevitable that they will hurt themselves. Most of these bumps and bruises will be minor, but it is vital that parents and carers have the skills and confidence to swiftly assess how seriously they are injured. First…
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Schooling

What role will you play in your child’s career path? Why I encourage my daughter to go into engineering

I am Chloe Agg and I am Senior Mechanical Engineer at Cundall. I will discuss here the perceptions parents may have of engineering and why I’ll be encouraging my daughter to enter the industry. This week, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) launched a campaign called Engineer a Better World. The campaign is aimed at parents to encourage their children, especially daughters, to…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Mum and the City: Five minute chat with London Mum & TV presenter Angellica Bell

Angellica Bell is a familiar face on British television with lots of prime programmes under her belt: she is a regular reporter for ‘THE ONE SHOW’ (BBC1 7pm), the flagship daily topical show for the channel which regularly attracts viewing figures of 5 million. Her career started in 2000 at Children’s BBC and her progression from children’s TV presenter to adult factual and…
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Childcare

The UK’s first bilingual Mandarin-English nursery Hatching Dragons opens in London

Hatching Dragons – the UK’s first bilingual Mandarin-English early years provision – will be opening it’s flagship nursery in the Barbican in the coming month. Think it would be amazing if your child could be fluent in Chinese by the age of 5? We do too. And with Hatching Dragons they will. Please get in touch to register your interest for a visit of their wonderful space on one of…
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Parenting Skills

Are we too egocentric? Are we bringing up self-centric children?

In last few years, we have seen the raise of the Uber Woman and the advent of smartphones with the selfie functionality has only exaggerated that. Women are more egocentric and narcissistic than ever or at least we like to come across as self confident. Lots of mums have become bloggers, the yummy mummy generation was born with the social media that has enhanced a sense of our own fabulousness. …
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

A fresh approach to flexible working – be sociable, make money and have fun

A fresh approach to flexible working – be sociable, make money and have fun Did you know that direct selling parties have grown by over 150% since 2009? Nearly 900,000 Brits attended one of 127,000 parties last year. Global household appliance manufacturer Vorwerk is expanding in the UK using a ‘party planning’ sales model, but with a fresh new take. Working with them means you can make new…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

The Rise of The Social Media Manager Mum!

According to writer Caitlin Moran, best-selling author of How To Be A Woman, a mother can achieve much more than a childless person – thanks to superior time management skills. Mum-of-two Caitlin writes: “Give a new mother a sleeping child for an hour and she can achieve 10 times more than a childless person.” Caitlin is right –  as we know, mumpreneurs are taking over the…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Are you suffering from Imposter syndrome?

Simone was a successful Marketing Manager, well respected and high achieving – she had outperformed her counterparts on a number of occasions, and yet, she was constantly waiting to be found out, and lived in terror of the day when someone was going to walk into her office and ask what on earth she thought she was doing in such a high powered job. And it’s not just those in senior positions…
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Baby & Toddlers

Why Our Expectations of Child Sleep are Wrong

What do you expect of your child’s sleep? Most expectations centre around the idea of a 7pm bedtime and 7am wake time. After all, children need twelve hours sleep per night don’t they? By the end of the first year, certainly most experts and guidelines suggest that this is the case. While most parents expect newborns to wake regularly at night, the most prevailing belief is that by six…
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Fashion & Beauty

Audrey & Hubert De Givenchy: Haute Couture Fashion is born out of a beautiful friendship

Do you know the movie Sleepers? It’s one of my favourite ones. At the beginning of the story the narrator says: “This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood.” I use this sentence as a spark to speak about one of the most enduring friendships, between two shining stars in the Fifties, Audrey Hepburn in cinema, and Hubert De Givenchy in fashion. They met by…
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