For your chance to win 1 of 10 copies of The Little Book of Diet Help by Kimberly Willis enter your answer to the simple question below in our dedicated competition page https://www.londonmumsmagazine.com/competition-area The question is ‘What’s the name of this book’s publisher’? Deadline to enter is 18th February 2012.
The truth is, diets don’t work – or, at least, they…
We all make new year’s resolutions. They seem to be always the same which we can’t keep up with. This year is the year of the Olympics so it’s in order to desire to be sportier and healthier. Here are my good intentions for 2012 and I am sharing some tips to detox myself.
1) Try tech detox – Take it easy and spend quality time with your child/ren at least for 1 hour every…
Free publicity, either at a local or national level, is the perfect way to promote your business and drive traffic to your website. The media look for news stories not marketing messages from a company, so it is vitally important for you to create a news story and make sure it is newsworthy. In this article I will show start ups and small business owners how to get free publicity with three key PR…
Elephant Recruitment Ltd is an established childcare provider and continues to pride itself on a first class service, personal to both families and professional child carers. Monica Morison, Director of Elephant Recruitment, has worked in business for over 15 years.
In the last year we have had families all over the UK and Ireland contacting Elephant Recruitment to use our Au pair service, mainly…
Ballet dancing is so fascinating and deep inside we would all want our little girls to become as graceful as Darcey Bussell. Here she is opening her heart to us.
You started professional ballet at quite a late stage, there any reason for this?
I DID START BALLET CLASSES ON SATURDAYS FROM 5 YEARS OLD, BUT I WAS JUST NOT VERY INTO IT UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 12 YEARS OLD, I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE I ONLY…
Mia Drennan is the first ever winner of Workingmums.co.uk‘s Working mums champion award. The award recognises both the way her headhunting company Square Mile Connections treats staff and how Mia advocates for wider changes in work culture.
Mia’s staff not only work flexibly, but she has recognised this formally by introducing contracts that are based on hours worked rather than days…
In 2006, Gillian Nissim was a communications manager and had just had her second child. She needed flexible yet challenging work, but wasn’t able to find it.
She decided to do something about it. The result is workingmums.co.uk, a jobs site which puts a huge bank of qualified professional women in touch with family-friendly employers who offer flexible working conditions and work which…
My name is RITA KOBRAK. I love travelling and I love Italy. The idea of mum and baby holidays came about while talking to other mums. Many said they did not feel brave enough to travel on their own with their babies and all the extra baggage that you need to take. This gave me the inspiration for mum and baby retreats in our lovely home in Tuscany.
I went about trying to make the house child…
Baby Yoga is one of the most special bonding activities you can do with your baby. The class tones the body and helps to regain your strength and posture. The best benefit of all is that the rush of endorphins and soothing movements make mum and baby feel happy and help to encourage good sleeping patterns!
A typical class lasts for one hour and consists of up to 14 moves, creating a sequence of…
It’s been clear to me, throughout my experience of ‘stuff management’, that young folk are often very receptive to a structure for organisation. And before you fall about laughing, I don’t mean that they have a natural dispensation to the minimalistic. What I mean is that they like life made as easy for them as possible (and I can empathise with that sentiment, believe you…