Fitness & Health

Calling UK families! Do you and your family want help from a personal trainer and dietician with food shopping paid for 7 weeks?

5STAR arelooking for UK-based teenagers aged 16-20 and their families who want to make a change in their lives for a family weight loss show.Families work with a personal trainer and dietician, with food shopping covered over a 7 week period to help them change their lifestyle. With specifically tailored nutrition and exercise plans to help them lose the pounds, the families…
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Schooling

Back-to-school shoes reviews

Here’s a rare photo shoot of my camera-shy 13 year old Diego with his new school shoes. I treasure these memories as he’s growing at the speed of light. Typically an Italian house is full of shoes. Mine is no different. We’ve got shoes for all occasions, sport, comfort. You are probably laughing but shoes are a big deal in my household. Diego’s Boys Senior School Shoes…
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Fitness & Health

Eye Health: Are you keeping your eyes safe this Autumn?

As we slowly depart from the Summer and enter the autumn season, one thing we should not disregard is our eye health. Whilst we all think of summer as being the dangerous season for our eyes, our eye health can often suffer in Autumn too if we don’t stay protected. Ensuring you and your children follow these important top tips for keeping your eyes safe this autumn is highly encouraged, we only…
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Baby & Toddlers

Baby-led workshops help parents explore the unique characteristics of their newborn infant

Multi-award winning, early years sensory experience provider, Baby Sensory, has launched its new nationwide programmeHello Baby Observation,a remarkable ‘never seen before’ series of interactive baby-led workshops designed to help new parents to explore the unique and personal characteristics, abilities and sensitivities of their newborn child.With individual workshops…
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Parenting Skills

A Guide to Dating as a Single Mum

Being a single parent can be challenging at times, and for some mums, this can mean putting your love life on the back burner until the kids get older. There is no right or wrong time to start dating in terms of how long to wait after a separation, or how old your kids should be;it is all about whether you feel ready. If you have been off the dating scene for some time, then you might not be…
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Fitness & Health

4 Ways to Prevent Cerebral Palsy During Pregnancy

Cerebral palsy is a condition which affects your posture as well as your ability to control your muscles, causing issues with your mobility. There are various types of cerebral palsy, such as quadriplegic, diplegic, and hemiplegic. While a cerebral palsy diagnosis can be scary, the condition can be managed and prevented too. Maintaining a healthy pregnancy is crucial in doing the latter, helping…
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Mums Tips

How To Keep Your Kids Safe This Summer

As a parent, the most important thing in your life is keeping your kids safe. Whether that means taking them to the hospital when they have a nasty fall or making sure that they are living in a home that is not going to cause them to get sick, it is very important. Of course, during the summer this can get a little trickier with warmer weather and school holidays showing up. Here, we are going to…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Three Challenges That Every Mumpreneur Must Overcome

Becoming a successful businesswoman while raising a family must be one of the toughest challenges you are ever likely to face. Most entrepreneurs struggle to manage just one business, so to do this while raising children and maintaining a strong spousal relationship is one hell of a task. In spite of this, mumpreneurship is on the rise and manymums are making waves, so how are they doing it?
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Fitness & Health

Tips on how to reduce allergens in your Home

After attending a conference on indoor air pollution last week, I talked to one of our London Mums’ experts, mumpreneur Marianne, Founder and Director of AllerGuard UK. She sent me her views on this important subject matter. “Air pollutionis a big topic these days. Data from theLondon Atmospheric Emission Inventory shows that just in London, 2 million people are living with toxic…
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Fitness & Health

Indoor air pollution: how it affects us and tips to prevent it

The terms indoor air quality and indoor air pollution seem to come up frequently these days. When we mention the word pollution we immediately think of the outside world, cars, aeroplanes, factories and so on. What does bring pollution into your home? Anything from washing up liquids, deodorants, indoor sprays, candles and many more in-house objects are the key causes of indoor air…
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