Parenting
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Going Solo: Making Life As A Single Parent Easier*
When you decide to have a child, it’s rare to envisage yourself bringing them up by yourself. In the UK alone, there are two million single parents, meaning that a quarter of families with kids under the age of 18 are solo parent families. Bringing up your children on your own may not be what you imagined parenthood would be like, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t give your kids the best start in life. Your relationship status doesn’t have to impact your children in a negative way – studies show that kids being raised in single-parent households are just as happy as children raised in two-parent families. The…
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TV Show Tie In Toys My Daughter Loves
I’m not going to lie, TV has always been a particularly large part of my daughter’s childhood. As I’m self employed I’ve always needed those few hours every day to do some form of work or admin and although I don’t believe in letting TV be a substitute parent, she does watch it at least once a day. Because of this a lot of the toys my daughter has enjoyed playing with over the years have been part of the merchandise promotion for kids TV shows. She’s had In The Night Garden Toys, and Mister Maker Art Sets, Ben & Hollie’s Little Kingdom figures and she even went through a…
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3 Things to Consider About Car Safety with Children*
When it comes to keeping your child safe, there is no such thing as going too far (unless of course you keep them in a bubble and don’t let them do anything!) When you have a baby it’s important to look at all aspects of your life to eliminate or at least reduce the ways in which your child could come to harm. We baby proof the house, we look into what areas we live in and what schools our children are going to attend and we vet the people who are going to be looking after our children. Another important thing to consider is safety in and out of…
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Lelli Kelly School Shoes at Jake Shoes Review
I can’t believe we’re almost half way through Little Miss’ last term of her first year at school. Although I’m so excited that I’ll have her off for a whole 6 weeks, I know during that time I’ll have to think about buying her new school uniform during that time. A stress and expense every parent dreads! At the moment with Little Miss being in the lower end of school the only thing I need to get that’s branded is her school jumper or cardigan, everything else can be unbranded which does save money. However LM does so much crafting at school I need to have at least 3 cardigans,…
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Getting Through Chicken Pox with ViraSoothe*
Remember I mentioned that Little Miss had chicken pox over Easter and I was going to write about it, well here we go. As a parent one of the of childhood viruses you’re constantly on the look out for is the chicken pox. Every parent wants their child to get it but at the same time, they dread it because the amount of work can be daunting. I vaguely remember having chicken pox as a child. I was 7 or 8 and I remember my cheeks being bright red and itchy. I also remember the week off school and the fact we watched ET for the first time. LM fell…
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What We Did for Easter 2017
I can’t believe that’s Easter over with, the next time a term ends LM will have finished her first year at school! The Easter holidays seemed to last forever, probably because we managed to cram so much into two weeks, including LM having the dreaded chicken pox for 7 of those days (technically 9 as she had two days without spots). Now she’s been back a day the holidays feel like they never happened. Crazy huh? Of course I’m already looking forward to May half term as we have two days in London with a friend from Shanghai and we have two days in Disneyland Paris! It’s definitely all that…
