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How Family Pets Can Help Children With Autism

Most families won’t feel complete until a pet is part of it. They bring so much to a home, becoming part of the family as they provide companionship and unconditional love. But did you know there is much more to owning a pet than having a cuddly companion? Firstly they are beneficial to both your […]

Making Sense Of Child Car Seat Laws In The UK

The rules and regulations concerning the use of child car seats – and the variations and exceptions in their use – can be difficult to understand. There’s also the present situation of a new seat standard – i-Size – running side-by-side with the present one. The regulations can seem harder than anything you tackle in […]

Make room for new babies

Welcoming members to the family brings with it a whole set of challenges, and requires a certain amount of compromise. The chances are that if you live anywhere near London, extra space in your home is almost unheard of. For many the option of moving into a bigger home is out of the question, and […]

How It Feels To Become A Mum To Twins

I won’t have vomit on everything I wear one day, and I won’t have nappies to deal with forever, but from now on, I’m not the same person and I’m not the centre of my life any more. It seems obvious and although pregnancy gives you some time to prepare you for this fact, you […]

Simple Crafts to do with the Kids

Arts and crafts is an incredibly useful activity for kids to engage with because it helps them to develop their creativity whilst urging them to carry out a more critical thinking point of view through the act of creating and designing. According to the National Society for Education in Art & Design, by giving your […]

Learning through sand and water play

Small children discover the world around them by using their senses. They touch, squeeze, smell, taste and look. Texture, colour, even the noise something makes as fingers are run over it – it all provides a motivation for play, and through that play, learning. Water and sand in particular provide countless opportunities for tactile, imaginative […]