Last year I attended a local parenting course in Wandsworth to prepare myself for the challenges ahead of bringing up a teenager. We discussed a lot about ways to reward a child for good behaviour and / or excellent performance at school.
It is important to motivate children and reward them when they do something right or when they display emotional intelligence through a particularly sympathetic…
Parents have a lot to fret about in these digital days. Newsletters from school and articles on the Internet coach us about monitoring our children’s activity and time on the Internet. But what if the greatest threat to children’s online well-being doesn’t come from strangers, peers, social media or screen time? What if the danger has less to do with their social media activity, and more to…
There’s always change in the air, but it does seem like as a society we’ll be going through a change that’s more profound than anything we’ve seen in a long time. Climate change is going to direct us in one way or another; we’ll either get wise, and make changes that prevent the worst-case scenarios from happening, or we won’t, and we’ll go through a period of adjusting to the new…
When it comes down to giving our children a loving and wholesome upbringing, one of the most important factors is their education. We want to provide our children with the opportunities we may never have had and in many cases, try to save them from the mistakes we made whilst growing up. Whether that means growing up in a situation with very few opportunities, not choosing to continue with further…
As parents, we can certainly relate to the daily struggle of getting kids into the car. According to new research fromSEAT,it costs families 96 hours a year getting children ready, out of the house and into the car twice a day.
Time spent on the daily routine makes almost a third of parents (30 per cent) late for work at least once a week, with mums and dads a daily average of…
Ok, so this is the first Christmas with our boys that we seem to will have actually enjoyed!But let’s start at the beginning…
My name is Ivana (or less formally, Ivanka) and I am a mum to two gorgeous twin boys Mason and Henry. I love them so much it hurts but girl, they can drive me mad sometimes!
But that’s motherhood, isn’t it? Some days you burst with love and…
According to a new study supported by CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), the only Christmas wish for 1 in 5 (20%) British parents this festive holiday, is for their child to go to bed on time on Christmas Eve. One of the most stressful things about the festive season isnot avoiding family arguments and prepping the turkey but convincing excited children to go to sleep on 24th…
Teaching kids can be difficult, but they aren’t as inept as many people think. They are growing and changing all of the time, and you will be surprised at what they can learn and how fast they can learn it. But one thing children have a hard time with is conserving. Kids don’t usually naturally save things. They eat what they have in front of them. They play with the toys they have. They cry…
My favourite UK psychologist Emma Kenny has recently worked with Purplebricks to produce afree children’s guide downloadableherecalledA Kids Guide to Moving Housewrittenin collaboration with theDiary of a Wimpy Kidsseries to help families through the moving process. London Mums get to exclusively share her top 10 tips here.
Moving to a new…
Here’s the thing with birth certificates – they are a lot more important than some people seem to believe. It is not just a piece of paper, it is a record that carries a lot of weight on an institutional level. That is why, when you want to change it, the process is usually a bit more tedious and difficult than you would initially assume.
However, it is still something that you…