Parenting
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The Significance of Colour in Early Years Development *
As well as numbers and the alphabet, learning colours should be a big part of early years development. At first, baby is born with monochrome vision and is unable to distinguish the difference between colours, it is not until around 8 months when their colour vision is fully developed. By 3-4 years, a child can begin to recognise and name basic colours as frequent exposure can help strengthen this skill. Aside from grabbing a child’s attention, colour can help improve skills and well-being. Infinite Playgrounds, educational play area designers, have provided us with more of an insight. The Development of Colour As scientific research has proven, a baby is not…
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12 Days of Christmas – Christmas Eve Box
As I mentioned in my Christmas Traditions I Love post, one of my favourite traditions is the Christmas Eve box. I started this tradition for Little Miss when she was a baby having seen other parents doing it and it being all over Pinterest. We always had to wear old pjs on Christmas eve then get new ones for Christmas which made no sense. This way LM is all clean and in new pjs for when Santa comes. It’s also a really nice way to kick off Christmas. There are also things in the box that will keep her busy on Christmas eve while mummy cleans (anyone else clean like…
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12 Days of Christmas – Christmas Traditions I Love
I can’t believe in 12 days time it’ll be Christmas Day! That’s come around fast. I did originally want to do Blogmas but I’ve been so busy with work, stuff to do with LM and getting ready for Christmas, it just didn’t happen. However, I’ve managed to get enough Christmas content to do 12 Days of Christmas on the blog, starting today with Christmas Traditions I Love. These traditions are exclusive to my little family, we are not religious and although LM looks at the Birth of Jesus at school, and even does a Nativity, she’s well aware it’s simply a story and enjoys it for that. We celebrate Christmas…
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What Will Your Legacy Be?*
You know the saying “YOLO”? It’s cringe worthy, right? But there is some truth behind the “you’ll only live once” concept. You get one life and yes, we all have to work and do house chores, we are tied to responsibilities and life can be a total bitch, but you should also make the very best of it. Go on that holiday, buy that dress, travel around, write that book.. do what you can to make the very best out of this short life. As a mother you don’t want to think about the inevitable but in the same way, you do. You want to make sure you have everything…
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Christmas 2017 – Gift Guide for Kids*
ALL LINKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED AS ITEMS NO LONGER FOR SALE Today I’m sharing my last gift guide for 2017, my gift guide for kids. It’ a bumper edition as I’ve divided the gifts up by ages, baby, young kids and older kids with a few ideas in each. I worked super hard on my gift guides this year and each thing I’ve picked I’ve personally approved and sourced to give you the best on the net. I really hope these can inspire some last minute shoppers! Some of these gift ideas are even things LM would love or is already getting for Christmas, I approve of them that much!…
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Happy Halloween 2017
For the past three years my parents have thrown a Halloween party for the 6 of us, it might seem a little lame but it’s always so much fun and just one of the reasons that despite the hard time, I love my family. For the past two years we’ve been required to dress up, which just adds to the hilarious. There is food, games, and movies to really get us into the Halloween spirit. Although Halloween night isn’t until Tuesday we had the party this afternoon as the kids, my mum and sister are back to work tomorrow. We’ll take the kids trick or treating on the 31st and…
