Parenting Skills

Keep your home running smoothly with this guide

A smoothly run home is easier to prevent from descending into chaos. When you’re able to stay on top of everything that needs to happen in your home, you can ensure essential tasks are completed and that everyone in the family gets things done. Life is busy and you have plenty of commitments, including lots of them outside of your home, so keeping things running smoothly is a must. No matter…
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Four ways to make the first 1001 days really count!

Why love, connection and community is the best recipe for happy babies, happy families and happy futures. Whether you feel you’ve thrived or just survived becoming a lockdown parent, there’s good news for new mums and dads this year, despite the challenges Covid has presented for the nation’s first-timers, (or even the second, third or fourth!) In a year in which the usual opportunities for…
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Moving house? Here’s a checklist to make sure everything goes smoothly

Everyone knows that moving house is a stressful experience, even when it’s just you. When you’re moving your entire family to a new home, things get a lot more frantic a lot more quickly. You are constantly being pulled by two different forces, as the need to make sure that you’ve got everything packed and ready to go in your old place is just as urgent as the need to make sure that…
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Parenting Skills

How to talk to your teen about STIs

The conversation around sexually transmitted infections can, at times, be awkward. Discussing STIs with their teenage child can be exceedingly awkward, at times challenging and albeit a bit frightening for many parents. Despite being an uncomfortable topic to talk about, it is a valuable conversation to have. Reports suggest thatevery four minutes, a young person in England is diagnosed with…
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Family-friendly shopping: Is it possible?

In answer to the title, of course it is. For many of us, shopping with the kids can be a sluggish day at best. It’s not their primary idea of fun, yet with errands to be run, it has to be done. While there are no hard and fast answers for shopping with every child out there, today’s guide should hopefully help most of you. Let’s now take a look at some of the best tips and tricks…
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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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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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Father's Day: 1 in 10 Brits voted Tom Hanks as the No.1 movie father figure

Every year, we look forward to treating our Dads on Father’s Day, and this year it’s more important than ever after months of lockdown.Father’s Day falls on this Sunday, 20th June, and to celebrate, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has commissioned research into the film habits and cinema favourites of people across the UK. The new survey – conducted with 2003 U.K. adults…
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Cuddles, kisses and chatter: The top things grandparents have most missed out on

It’s hard to quantify all the things that have been missed over the last year, but new research out today shows that grandparents have been hit particularly hard – missing out on 49 hugs, 47 kisses, 40 conversations and 25 family meals with their grandkids since the start of the pandemic. WATCHthe emotional moment the first grandparents Granny Lou and Big Grandad Nick from…
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