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How To Support Babies Born With Heart Conditions This Heart Week
One in every 111 babies is born with congenital heart disease (CHD) – that’s more than 5,000 newborns each year in the UK. This February, Heart Week is an opportunity for friends, colleagues, family, team mates or neighbours to join together to do something amazing. .  Learn more about Heart Week and sign up to take part here Through Tiny Tickers’ Heart Week, each of us can raise awareness and funds to help these babies – ensuring they are given a fighting chance to beat their condition. Finding these babies is vital. Last year, over 1,000 newborns were discharged from … Continue reading How To Support Babies Born With Heart Conditions This Heart Week
How To Build Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Helping to build up your children’s self-esteem is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. Adults and children with high self-esteem are happier, more confident, more self-accepting, more productive and feel more useful than those for whom self-esteem is lacking. As parents, all we want is for our children to grow into confident, happy and secure adults. We can help our children achieve this by taking daily steps to build their self-esteem. Here are some ways we can build our children’s self-esteem: Empower them Giving children choices – be it between an apple and an orange or which … Continue reading How To Build Your Child’s Self-Esteem
5 Surprising Ways To Bring Down Your Food Bills
We all know the standard advice for cutting down the amount we spend on our weekly food shop – do one food shop per week, make a list, meal plan, don’t shop when you’re hungry, shop at discount supermarkets etc. While all this advice is perfectly valid, there are a few other tricks you can use to save money on your expensive food bill. 1. Study the shelves If you think items are placed on the shelves at random, you’d be very wrong. Supermarkets invest big money in research to determine exactly where they should place items to maximise their … Continue reading 5 Surprising Ways To Bring Down Your Food Bills
7 Life Lessons We Can Learn From Our Kids
I always thought I would be the one to teach my daughter about life. I’m her mum; that’s my role. But as time rumbles on, I increasingly find that she is the one teaching me. Adults can spend years working on personal growth. We read self-books, stubbornly practise mindfulness, see therapists and embark on valiant expeditions to find ourselves. What if we always knew the truth we seek? It seems that at some point during our turbulent transition from child to adult we managed to unlearn the life lessons we came hard wired with. BE PRESENT Children, unlike adults, tend … Continue reading 7 Life Lessons We Can Learn From Our Kids
Why Learning To Lower My Expectations Has Made Me A Happier Parent
I’ve lost count of the number of baby showers I’ve attended where the guests are asked to proffer a piece of parenting advice on a frilly piece of card for the mum-to-be. I always struggle with this; it takes more than a few lines of generic sentiment to share anything worth knowing about parenthood. Is there a catch-all piece of advice to make parenting an easier experience? Categorically not. But occasionally a light-bulb blazes within, something clicks and you think ‘Yes! I wish I’d realised that sooner!’ This article is a result of one of those epiphanies. It came about … Continue reading Why Learning To Lower My Expectations Has Made Me A Happier Parent
6 Things I Would Tell My Pre-Elf-On-The-Shelf Self
Four years ago, when a friend educated me about the whole elf on the shelf craze, I decided to give it a bash. A little house guest from the North Pole would be a simple and fun way to enhance the Christmas magic for my two young children, right? Anticipating that my sensitive daughter would be freaked out by the official version, I opted for two merry little plush elves – one for each of my kids. Charlie and Christina arrived on the 1st of December in all their green and red glory and were an instant hit. I didn’t … Continue reading 6 Things I Would Tell My Pre-Elf-On-The-Shelf Self
Christmas Fire Safety Tips
Christmas is the best time of the year for many reasons. Spending time with family and friends, the tree, the lights, cosy evenings by the fire, parties, presents and festive tunes are all reasons to adore Christmas. So, during this busy and happy time of year, we don’t mean to put a dampener on your Christmas celebrations by going on about the risks of fire. But, it’s important, so we’re going to. A fire could be totally devastating. It could be fatal. Of course, you already know that. Please read these important tips and make sure you and yours are … Continue reading Christmas Fire Safety Tips
How To Host Christmas On A Budget
What with all the gift buying, stocking filling and party hosting, it’s safe to say that Christmas is an expensive business. In 2016 the average family spent £174 on Christmas dinner – undoubtedly a hefty amount to add to your total Christmas price tag. If it falls to you to host Christmas dinner this year, panic not, we have some handy tips to help keep costs to a minimum. Get organised As with everything Christmas-related, planning is key. Make a list of everything you’ll need for your Christmas dinner, right down to the last Brussel sprout. When you’ve finished your … Continue reading How To Host Christmas On A Budget
How To Brighten Dark Winter Days
The days are drawing in, hats and gloves are out and frost is chilling on windowpanes – winter has well and truly arrived. For many of us, with the warmth and light of summer a distant memory, it’s depressing. Winter days are literally dark and for some (especially those suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder) figuratively so too. Winter has a habit of promoting lethargy and depression. Even with the excitement of Christmas on the horizon, it can still be a struggle. It can seem hard to get out of bed in the mornings and motivation can crash to an all-time … Continue reading How To Brighten Dark Winter Days
How to Have A Magical 1980s Christmas
Christmas in the 80s seemed to be a far less complicated affair. I don’t remember my mum running round like a headless chicken, hiding elves on shelves and making life-sized advent calendars stuffed full of homemade toys. She never had a to-do list as long as her arm and seemed completely nonplussed by the whole event. Her 1980s laid-back attitude towards parenting extended throughout the festive period with abandon. She was as cool as the Snowman, which in the absence of on-demand TV, we watched when it happened to on (unless someone had the foresight to video it.) When I … Continue reading How to Have A Magical 1980s Christmas