Parenting Skills

How to Save Money and the Environment in One Go

While any money saving tip is well-appreciated by mums everywhere, it gets even better when those tips help to save the environment at the same time. Have you ever stopped to think of all the waste you are producing on a yearly basis that perhaps you could avoid, at least in part? Here are a few tips that will help you stretch that tight budget you are probably raising a family on while doing your…
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Types of Cleaning You Can Do Yourself and Ones You Can't

Here are tips on types of cleaning you can do yourself and ones you can’t. When your rental period comes to an end, it is important to get your rent deposit back. The money can help you relocate to your new house. But for a refund to be made, you have to clean the house before you move out. Many property owners and agents are very strict on this before they give the refund. Well, if…
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It's Time To Get Ready For Those Older Milestones!

As parents, we often build our idea of what stage of life our kids are at by the milestones that they hit. The first time they roll over, the first time they crawl, first words, first steps, all of these are signs that your child is developing and growing up and they can be some of the most exciting times of your child’s life. However, as your child gets older, it’s easy to feel like a…
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Teaching Your Kids to be Safe Online – 10 Tips to Get Started

We usually teach our children road safety, beach safety and how to dress during winter, but do we pay attention to Internet safety? For me, the online space is like an amusement park, where there are all these beautiful machines to ride, but you must follow the safety precautions if you want to come from the other end in one piece. There is no way to keep your kids off the Internet space…
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5 Ways to Keep Your Life Balanced As a New Parent

You know what they say about being a new parent, right? That they’d never get any time to sleep, that they run almost exclusively on caffeine and have to spend all their time sprinting back and forth, and all that kind of stuff? Well, there’s obviously some truth to those stereotypes. Babies are fragile and entirely dependent on their parents, and need plenty of attention, care, and…
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How to Help Your Kids Prepare for Moving to a New House

Moving with children to a new house can be an exciting adventure and a stressful challenge at the same time. To you, moving probably means a brand new start with bigger space, better neighbourhood, or a new job. But to your kids, it’s disruptive and a bit more traumatic. On top of all the chaos of packing, kids are forced to say goodbye to friends they love and the familiar comfort of their…
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Helicopter Parenting, The Kids... and Your Marriage

Helicopter parents. They are all over the nation. Tracking their child’s every move, pattern, behaviour, and, very often, failure. As some of the beneficiaries of this parenting phenomenon are turning into adults, it is becoming overly apparent that not only does Helicopter Parenting not work, but the parents put their children at a severe disadvantage as they are unable to thrive in the face of…
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A Mum's ways to distract children from using the tablet, PC, iphone and ipads

It’s not been too long ago when we completed half term, time off from school where you can get up late, have a lie in and just a huge break from doing the school run and the Easter holidays are coming soon. However, we are faced with something different, what can I do that is not expensive to entertain and distract children at home? Some families go on holidays and some families just…
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How to Cope with Divorce

Nobody goes into a marriage planning for divorce, but it’s an all-too-common outcome. While you might have experienced the very worst of relationship breakups in the past, divorceis very different. There are obligations and legal matters to take into account, and it can be all too easy to fall into unhealthy ways of coping. No matter how long you’ve been married for, where you live, or…
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Laundry tips for time-deprived parents

I have always wondered how much laundry other parents do because in my household I end up running the washing machine at least four times a week. My son has PE at secondaryschool three times during a school week, plus tennis, football training so a lot of sporting kit has to be washed on top of the uniform – a 12 year old boy sweats a lot! Add to that my own sports’ clothing (for…
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