Fitness & Health

3 Tips to ensure our teeth are strong and healthy throughout life

Dental health is so important at all stages of your life, whether you are a toddler with milk teeth, a young adult, or are becoming more elderly. Once you get your ‘adult’ teeth at around the age of 8, you are stuck with these for life and don’t get any natural replacements. Unlike sharks, which can grow new sets of teeth if their old ones fall out, humans just get one shot, so you must look…
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Parenting Skills

London named top city for InstaDads, new study reveals

A new social media study from gifts and gadgets retailer Menkind reveals the nation’s top hotspots for InstaDads. Ahead of celebrating dads on Father’s Day, the analysis delved into Instagram hashtag data and uncovered the top UK locations where dad life content gets shared and liked the most. London named top InstaDad city The new study analysed publicly available Instagram posts from the…
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Fitness & Health

Child's Health: The benefits of early orthodontic treatment

You might have heard about early orthodontics as an effective tooth straightening option for children. This enables them to have the best smile possible from a young age, but there are so many more advantages to early orthodontics than meets the eye. In this article, we’ll be discussing the benefits of early orthodontic treatment to ensure your child has optimal dental health now and into the…
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Childcare

Bright Horizons pioneers new Early Years curriculum with wellbeing at its core

Nursery and back-up care provider Bright Horizons has designed an innovative new Early Years curriculum which will be in all its nursery settings in England by September following a successful pilot programme. The pioneering curriculum, Bright Beginnings, focuses on children’s emotional wellbeing as the key to learning. The curriculum is designed to acknowledge the individual voice and needs…
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Fitness & Health

Everything you need to know about Collagen as a supplement

Have you heard about collagen? To tell you the truth, until a few weeks ago, I didn’t know much about collagen as a supplement and I was surprised to hear all about it recently during a health conference. The term collagen comes from the Greek word ‘glue’ and it’s the most ample protein in the body and collagen is the main component for muscles,tendons, skin, bones, hair…
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Fashion & Beauty

The history of the T-shirt: From underwear to symbol of rebelliousness

These days T-shirts are so common and so widely used that we might not even notice them unless they carry messages that the individuals want to express. I have gone back in time to see where the T-shirt has come from. In Victorian times sailors in the British Empire and in the USA used t-shirts to protect themselves from adverse weather. Later on, workers started using t-shirts not just inside…
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Childcare

Are you a panicking parent or a calm carer?

If you’re a working parent wondering how you’ll survive the summer school holidays, new research shows you’re not alone! The approach of the long summer school holidays can bring out different feelings for different families. While some parents and guardians look forward to spending more time with the children, others can be slightly nervous about how they are going to keep the kids…
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Parenting Skills

Start your morning right and you can have a brilliant day – here’s how

I don’t know about you but, these days there are some mornings where I’m not even sure of how far into the week I am. Like so many, I’m working from home. The old routines of getting up, getting the kids ready, breakfast and getting off to work have all but gone and like everyone else I am not sure if this will have changed by the end of June. But regardless of restrictions that are still in…
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Fitness & Health

The power of essential oils

These past months have been unusual to say the least, including the lack of opportunity to visit health professionals which has led us to look for natural ways to keep us in good shape. Essential oils are now more popular than ever. This blog explores the power of essential oils to heal us from various medical issues. Plants have been used for medical, beauty care, culinary uses, spiritual…
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