Fitness & Health

Eating disorder - how to recognise and prevent it

This week (11 – 17 February 2013) is Eating Disorder Awareness week. Dr Nihara Krause, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer as well as founder of the charity STEM4 that raises awareness and offer early intervention in four areas of teenage mental health through workshops in schools, talks to London Mums about eating disorders and prevention. What are eating disorders? Eating…
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Schooling

Top Tips for your School Application

Getting your school application form right and providing the necessary information can be an important part in securing the school of your choice. Even those parents that have previously applied for older children can make basic mistakes or errors of judgment which affect not only the manner in which the application is dealt with, but also chances, some months later, when conducting a school…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

60 seconds with Duncan Bannatyne

I recently met Duncan Bannatyne at the First Aid Awards and asked him a few questions. If you were Mayor of London for the day, what would you do to improve things for entrepreneurs? I wouldn’t do anything. If you are a entrepreneur you will find a way through, you will find a way to be great. Who inspired you as a boy? I used to see trucks driving past with people’s names on them…
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Fashion & Beauty

Beauty Hall & The Beast

The other day whilst applying my foundation I was surprised to see that it is no longer a good match. My skin is now so pale & sun-deprived that even the palest Dior foundation is leaving me slightly orange-looking…”Easy fix” I hear you cry, just take trip to the Beauty Hall! photo credit: Darwin Bell via photopin cc Er. No. Please tell me that I am not the only person for whom a…
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Parenting Skills

Top tips for keeping your family safe online

To celebrate SAFER INTERNET DAY today, we publish here a guide on what you need to know to keep your family safe online. Our top tips for keeping your family safe online have been prepared by David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. There’s no doubt about it, the internet is taking over the world and, despite the wonderful social and developmental opportunities it offers your…
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Fitness & Health

CLARE BALDING kick-starts an initiative to support young people's careers in the football industry

Last year’s sporting success had a real impact on young people’s perceptions of female athletes. So Clare Balding has now kick-started npower What’s Your Goal?, an initiative that offers young people once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in the football industry. Clare is leading an exclusively female line up of 11 inspirational and successful women currently working within the football industry…
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Schooling

Early readers should be taught meaning, not sound

Children would find it much easier to learn to read and write if they were first taught how the English language works and what words mean, rather than trying to sound out words. According to new research, English is so complex that relying on phonics – the common practice of teaching children to read by sounding out words – makes learning English much more difficult than it needs to be. Dr…
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Baby & Toddlers

What to do when you are weaning a baby

Weaning (also referred to as complementary feeding) is the process of introducing babies to solid foods. What, and how, you feed your child is crucial to their development and health including developing speech and social skills. However, with so much conflicting information out there it can seem like an incredibly daunting process, instead of the exciting new stage of your baby growing…
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BlogMumpreneurs & Mums at work

Simple tips on how to return to work this Spring!

Great tips on how to return to work this Spring provided by Lila Veltze and Sarah Archer, co founders and Career Coaches at CareerTree, an organisation that helps people make positive changes to their working lives. They are both mums and between them they have over 15 years experience helping other mums back to work. The thought of returning to work can seem really daunting if you’ve been…
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BlogBooksSchooling

Book review: Wherever My Wellies Take Me by Michael and Clare Morpurgo

Where My Wellies Take Me is a collection of favourite poetry chosen by former children’s laureate Michael and Clare Morpurgo. Woven around the poetry selection is the story of Pippa, who loves to stay with her Aunty Peggy in the Devon countryside. The book features illustrations from Olivia Lomenech Gill. I love all books by Morpurgo but this was is a particularly special one. First of…
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