Creativity and Homemade Craft Boxes

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I think a child’s creativity and homemade craft boxes go hand in hand. I am a great believer in developing a child’s imagination rather than spoon feeding them entertainment. Most parents I know feel  exactly the same but it is so easy to see little craft kits to make a peg doll or a pom [...]

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Storio – an ebook reader for little kids – what do you think?

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 VTech, specialists in electronic learning for kids, have launched the brand new STORIO, the world’s first animated e-reading book for children. It was developed in response to new research that discovered mums were hungry for electronic learning products that specifically help with their child’s reading. Through the Storio children interact with the story as they read, listening to [...]

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Have you tried out a Smorie on your child? (this is v cool!)

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Smories has been dubbed the “perfect bridge between the traditional book and the future of digital story telling”. Smories is an innovative new website for children where they can watch short films of new stories being narrated by other children. As well as providing endless free entertainment to children it is also a destination where [...]

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Fussy eaters – how do you support yours?

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 Guest blog from Naomi Richards. Naomi is a life coach for children supporting them with a myriad of issues in their lives. She blogs at http://www.thekidscoach.org.uk  Fussy eaters Children are fussy. They are fussy about what they wear, what they want to do and when and fussy about what they eat. They do this to [...]

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Our colourful garden plan – on a baby budget

Sponsered Post  Our garden projects this year involve making our garden full of life and colour, It’s a bit too ‘green’ if you know what I mean.  We don’t have money for lots of new plants so we are going to have to be creative. Our garden is pretty small so it won’t take much [...]

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It’s a bank holiday tradition- Gardening (with kids + on a budget)

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spomsered post My hubby loves his garden and pre-kids we would spend a lot of money on it, making it beautiful. The lawn had to be just so and we would have pots and pots of gorgous flowers outside.  Now we don’t want any dodgy chemicals anywhere near the kids and we are on a [...]

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