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5 Meaningful Gifts That Show You Care*
Many of us want to show how much we care by getting the perfect gift for our children; these can range from the incredibly expensive to a more thoughtful and handmade item that offers a personal touch that can bring up many treasured memories. Gifts can be provided at any time of year; as they aren’t limited to Christmas, Anniversaries and Birthdays. That said, if you have a birthday coming up and are struggling to show your child how much you care, check out these five items that are bound to have that special person bursting with joy. Memory Book Making treasured memories are special but sometimes keeping those memories…
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5 Healthy Food and Drink Trends You Need to Know for 2025*
New year, new you, right? It’s not for everyone. In fact, I find January’s far too stressful to try healthy eating with trying to balance money, my tax return and my daughter’s birthday right at the end! But I want to get into a healthy mindset in February so I’m already researching what I need to know about healthy food and drink trends in 2025; Healthy DrinkingAnd for once I mean alcohol. Usually being more health conscious and calorie counting doesn’t go well with a taste for liquor… However, 2025 is looking at a new trend of healthy drinking. This allows us to drink and be sociable without consuming extra…
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Making Travel More Affordable*
Most people love to travel, yet it can be an expensive pastime, particularly if you’re travelling with a young family, as travelling solo is expensive enough yet with kids in tow the price mounts up pretty quickly. Of course, there are often reduced child prices for aspects such as meals and tickets to theme parks, but children have an incredible ability to encourage you to buy pretty much anything and everything they see, with no appreciation of the financial strain it incurs. Of course, as a parent, you want to offer your child the best, and particularly when it comes to holidays you want them to have what they crave.…
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5 Other People to Celebrate on Valentines Day*
In the past I’ve popped up a post with some ideas of ways to treat yourself this V Day, if you’re single and today I thought i’d expand on that by sharing 5 other people you could celebrate on Valentines Day. Although it’s driven home that Valentines Day is a special day in the year for couples to express their love for one another, but to me, if you’re in the right relationship, that’s every day. Instead, I try to view Valentines as a day to celebrate other people you love. Parks and Recs have raised the profile of Galentines Day which falls on the 13th February and it’s about…
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Five Moral Values You Should Explore With Your Kids*
There’s a lot more to being a parent than putting a roof over your child’s head and making sure they eat. You also have to help them grow into a good person so that they can be successful both in and out of school. Many people who have faith in their life may seem like their at an advantage, but as the world changes that isn’t the case. But if you follow Christianity, you may be looking to evolve it and involve your children. Invest in some faith clothes or Christian apparel and head to a Church on a Sunday, getting your children involved in your faith can help teach…
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Children’s Uniforms Through Time*
In the UK, wearing an outfit individual to a particular school is not a modern idea. The first noted “uniform” was declared by The Archbishop of Canterbury in 1222 that students had to don a certain robe called a “cappa clausa” and Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham which first opened in 1552 adopted a uniform for its pupils back in the 16th century! So let’s have a look at the changing face of school uniforms and how they compare to what children wear today. 19th Century In the 1800s, The Elementary Education Act of 1870 made education available to all pupils in England and Wales. This meant that there had…
