Cleaning is not most mum’s favourite item on the todo list. However long we put it off it has to be done and we hope our top 10 cleaning tips provided by London Domestic Cleaners A Maid in Heaven to help you get your home looking and smelling clean and fresh in no time.
1. Have a regular schedule; cleaning is easier if done often and regularly. You are less likely to worry about the…
New figures show calls to the NSPCC from concerned adults rise by over a third during the summer holidays.
The NSPCC has recently launched a new campaign aimed at supporting families – ‘Keep Kids Safe from Harm this Summer’ – after the charity received a sharp increase in calls about children at risk during last year’s summer holidays.
The new campaign offers support and advice to…
Socket covers are not enough to protect children from electrical accidents, charity warns. New parent’s misplaced trust in socket covers is endangering children’s lives and exposing a naivety about electrical safety, a study has found.
A safety charity is appealing to product manufacturers and the parenting community to stop pushing socket covers as a ‘one stop solution,’ as the research…
The UK laws of divorce have not been reformed since their introduction in 1969. However there was a move and introduction to No – Fault Divorce shortly after 1970.
No-fault divorceis a divorce in which the dissolution of a marriage does not require a showing of wrong-doing by either party, and those interested in further reading can look to a resource like this…
We asked Dr. Lisa Turner to give us some advice on how to Talk to Your Teenagers so That They Listen. Here is what what she told us.
The turbulent teens can be hard and can sometimes seem that the part of your teenager’s brain that takes in any of your good advice shuts down. In fact, this is exactly what it does. The hormonal changes that kids go through during puberty are common knowledge…
Pregnancy is the biggest killer of teenage girls worldwide. Every year one million teenage girls die or suffer serious injury, infection or disease due to pregnancy or childbirth, according to our new report launched today. That’s why we need world leaders to act at a crucial Family Planning Summit on 11 July 2012.
Save the Children recently published a new report, Every Woman’s…
Introducing cursive handwriting in the first years of schooling is a daunting task for parent and child alike. Yet, more and more primary schools are insisting that a child entering school should embark on writing at this seemingly complicated level.
As a mother and a therapist I completely agree with this line of thought. In fact, I made sure that this was a pre-requisite when…
I used to view with suspicion all type of marketing around Fairtrade simply because I wasn’t really aware of what Fairtrade really was until my 5 year old son one day came home from school saying that we needed to buy only Fairtrade goods in order not to exploit the farmers …
Let me tell you that at first I was a bit upset as I thought the school was trying to brainwash my child on…
Expert tool launched to encourage children to develop healthy hydration habits.
A new child-friendly, educational tool providing important hydration advice has been launched today, coinciding with research showing that schoolchildren may improve their cognitive performance by hydrating with water.
The ‘Children’s Hydration Glass’ developed by the Natural Hydration Council (NHC) in…
What if? What could I do? How would I cope? These are the questions that a First Aid
Course can give you the answers to.
By attending a first aid course for as little as two hours you could gain the knowledge and
practice the skills required to make a real difference in the event of an accident. And
according to the statistics, being prepared is vital:
Childhood accidents cost the NHS over £275…