Book Review: Jo Frost’s Confident Toddler Care

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Jo Frost’s Confident Toddler Care This book is subtitled the ultimate guide to the toddler years and is full of the direct, solid advice you would expect from Supernanny hereself. For me the supernanny approach has some hits and some misses.   I love her touchstones for the toddler years (basically her top 8 tips) [...]

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The Mumsnet Rules – do you agree? Review and Competition

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If there are no hard and fast parenting rules and we are all individuals with our own personalities and accepted ways of doing things, and if if internet forums are full of people disagreeing with each other then why on earth have Mumsnet published a book called The Mumsnet Rules?   Here’s what they have to [...]

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Book Review: Sheconomics

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Sheconomics – Add power to your purse with the ultimate money makeover (Headline:2009) by Karen Pine and Simonne Gnesson  £7.99 Sheconomics is all about women and personal finance. Packed full with case studies, reallife stories and experiences it aims to be a no nonsense easy to follow financial guide for women. Sheconomics   It contains [...]

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Friday Review and Competiton: 365 Everyday Games and Pastimes

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365 Everday Games and Pastimes is published by Square Peg and retails at £14.99 My thoughts: Oh, I think this book is truly BRILLIANT we will never be bored again.   It is chock full of games and ideas for all occasions. Somewhere along the way we have forgotten a lot about playing and the [...]

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Book review – Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn

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Unconditional Parenting – Alfie Kohn I think this book is fabulous and important enough to have on our parenting bookshelves (or at least borrow from the library) . Click to buy from Amazon  It is reseacrh based and anecdotal and it’s a refreshing/uncomforatble/thoughtprovoking read. It advocates  parenting and demosntrating loving for our children without condition and being [...]

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Book review: Save our Sleep by Tizzie Hall

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Baby induced sleep deprivation is horrible isn’t it? It makes your days tough, your head fuzzy, your relationships strained and according to Tizzie it can even affect your metabolism and make you put on weight. Help! Tizzie Hall is an interntional sleep expert. She has been ‘reading’ babies and working out what they need since [...]

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The Expectant Dads Survival Guide by Rob Kemp – Book Review

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The Expectant Dads Survival Guide by Rob Kemp     (What to expect when she is expecting) I have read of few books for dads on pregnancy and most have been quite jokey and blokey. Recently released this book was like a breath of fresh air.This book does have a really great sense of humour and speaks [...]

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