Parenting Skills

5 top tips to handle a nightmare teenager

Just when you think you’ve got this parenting thing covered, your child turns into a teenager and suddenly you feel like a beginner again. Well don’t worry, it happens to us all, and it doesn’t hurt to remember that being a teenager can be as much of a nightmare as owning one. So here are a few tips to help you get through the last few years of parenthood. More advice on how to handle…
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Mums Tips

The 10 best ways to spend your hard-earned money

We all want to get the most bang for our buck, especially regarding our hard-earned money. So, what are the best ways to spend your money? Here are 10 ideas to get you started. 1. Invest in Yourself Nobody else is going to invest in you like you can. Whether it’s taking a class, hiring a coach, or buying some new clothes for work, when you invest in yourself, you’re investing in your…
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Fitness & Health

What is medication-assisted treatment?

Many people have heard of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) but do not understand what it entails. MAT is a type of treatment that combines behavioural therapy and medications to treat substance use disorders. It can help individuals struggling with addiction become sober and maintain sobriety long-term. This article will provide an overview of the MAT process so that those considering this form…
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Parenting Skills

The most popular pets for Londoners and how you could welcome one into your family

Pets can often become highly valued members of the family. If you’re looking for a pet, you might be concerned about which pet your London home is suitable for. London homes may be more compact compared to homes elsewhere in the UK, so concerns about space may make you pause before taking the leap and bringing home a pet. It is a good idea to look critically at the space you have at home and…
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Fitness & Health

How to help whilst waiting for an ambulance

If you are first on the scene and find someone who has collapsed or had an accident, what you do in those first minutes is critical. Ambulance target time to get to a life-threatening emergency within eight minutes. However, in the current climate, this is just not happening and even with life-threatening emergencies you may be waiting considerably longer. The first aid you give whilst waiting for…
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Parenting Skills

Mums and sleep deprivation

Mums and sleep deprivation … we can all relate. I see Meta has employed a paediatric sleep deprivation therapist, suggesting it thinks its parenting-employees need lessons in getting their kids to sleep, too much indulging going on, too much lost sleep, impacting negatively on their Precious Productivity. Oh dear… Companies want it all. And we want it all, don’t we. The Career.
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Fitness & Health

Get To Know Premium Kinoko Platinum AHCC Supplements

The human immune system is a difficult network of cells, tissues, and organs that protect the body from harmful invaders. A healthy immune system is important for health and well-being, and immune-enhancing supplements are one way to help keep it healthy. One of these is the premium Kinoko Platinum AHCC supplement. This has become known in the health and wellness world for its powerful effects on…
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Parenting Skills

Mums and Tats: from ick to maybe

Generally I find tats a turnoff. They just look threatening or like a mould-fest. And why do it? All the pain, and weeks of wrapping yourself in clingfilm to prevent infection, only to regret the whole thing in later years. During lockdown however, I read a novel called The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng which inspired me to think otherwise. The lovers are bound by an agreement that the…
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Mums Tips

Spice up your February

Curating your life – continued from my blog series – just to get us through this dismal patch… This is February! I reject the cynics who say that organising fun stuff and posting beautiful photos is ‘Insta-vanity’. Rather it’s an antidote to gloomy thoughts and even depression. It’s our own form of self-medication, a conscious choice to embrace the light.
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Fitness & Health

Fitness Tips for staying motivated at the gym

Do you feel as though nothing you do helps you to stay motivated at the gym? Maybe you feel as though you need to make a change but you don’t know where to start. Either way, with these fitness tips, you’ll soon find that it’s possible for you to turn things around in no time at all. Source: Pexels (CC0 License) Set your Own Goals Ideally, you need to start with simple goals, so you…
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