A First-Time Parent’s Guide to the Different Types of Diapers
Have you just had a baby? Congratulations! It’s such an exciting time in your life. Having a baby means looking at every aspect of baby products in a new light. Even something as simple as choosing baby diapers to use becomes a task of great consideration. assetsadobe You probably know that some diaper brands are better […]
Types of Preschool: 3 Tips for Choosing the Right One for You
61% of American children under five learn and grow in preschool programs each year. These lucky little ones spend their days learning in home daycares, preschool buildings, church basements, and even forests! Some children learn to write their names with crayons, others with sticks in the mud. With so many different types of preschool programs out there, how will you […]
A Guide to Keeping Your Kids Safe Online
The internet is a dangerous place for your children, so you need to do everything possible to keep them safe online. Block Access to Harmful Material There are lots of things on the internet that it’s not good for your kids to be exposed to. There are the obvious things like adult content and pornography. […]
Why Do Women Spend Hours In The Bathroom?
It’s the question that baffles men across the world. I know that my husband doesn’t fully understand it! But to us women it is just part and parcel of life as a modern girl. If you ask any women, and I mean any women, they will be able to come up with five or six […]
Essential Safety Tips For Kids In The Home
Your home should be the safest place on Earth for you and your family. When it comes to your children, it can be a dangerous place. Children are young and naïve, which are just two of their main, amazing traits. But, these traits can lead them to do things that put them in danger. For […]
Encourage Your Kids to Engage in Imaginative Play with These Tips
Children who engage in imaginative play can have lots of fantastic skills later in life. Creative thinking can help people in all manner of ways, from everyday problem solving to carving out a career. But sometimes it can seem like kids don’t get enough time to engage in unstructured play when they don’t have to […]
Five Ways to Unlock your Child’s Creativity
Kids are naturally inquisitive, forever trying to explore and make sense of the world around them. As a parent, we want to encourage this creative spark, but it can be tough to keep on coming up with fresh ideas. Children all have different strengths, with some abler musically and others eager to learn other languages. […]
5 Skills Every Child Should Have the Chance to Learn
Children need to have their eyes opened to all the possibilities out there. Here are 5 skills every child should have the chance to learn! Looking After a Pet The chance to look after a pet is something most children want. So, why not let them? It might not be such a bad thing to […]
No Gym Subscription? No Problem! How To Stay Fit At Home
Staying fit and healthy when you have children can feel like mission impossible. If, before you had children, you used to hit the gym every week, you will find adjusting to parenthood quite tricky. Now, you need to try to fit your workout regime to your current schedule. It is not easy, but it is […]
Best Hobbies For Keeping Your Child Healthy
To make sure that your child grows up understanding the importance of fitness, it is crucial that you incorporate healthy activities into your lifestyle. But what is the best way to go about this? One of the best ways to make yours and your child’s lifestyle more active is with hobbies. As well as being […]
Rainy Day Activities for the Easter Holidays
With the Easter holidays fast approaching many parents are already in a mild state of panic with how to keep their little ones entertained over the holidays. Daddy geek has already given you a few ideas to get out and about for free. But what if the weather means that you are stuck in with […]
Fantastic Ideas For Hosting A Kids’ Party On A Budget
Unless you work as a party planner, you probably get a little stressed out at the idea of organising a kid’s party. Where will you host the party? How many children should you invite? How will you keep the kids entertained? With the biggest worry being, how much will it all cost? But, there is […]
Top Things to Get Your Kids to do if They’re Bored
Trying to manage your children when they’re bored can be a nightmare. Kids tend to get bored often, and you might have planned something only for external factors to ruin it. Keeping your children stimulated in day to day life is important for their future development. It will help to improve the way their brain […]
5 Fantastic Products To Make Your Life Easier
Gadgets are a funny thing. The one thing that they all have in common is that you don’t realise that you actually need them until you see them. As a mother of two anything that makes my life easier is a must. Anything that makes my children safer is an essential. And let’s face, some […]
Get Out In The Garden With Our Top 5 Paddling Pools Under £30
The British summer time is here. The murky skies are now giving way, on Occasion to blue sky and some glorious weather. Every Brit loves to enjoy the summer to the full, and when there is a family involved nothing gives quite as much joy and fun as a splash in the water in the […]
Peppa Pig World | The New Forest | UK
This Year was the year of our first family holiday to a theme park. Well, a holiday with a couple of visits to a theme park anyway. Our girls as with many other thousands of toddlers are in love with Peppa Pig. As part of our morning viewing, the little 5 minute programmes are now […]
Spring forward: Sleep Aids For Children
For many, the thought of the clocks going forward brings a mixed bag of feelings. Many are happy that finally we are out of the clutches of winter and the days are getting longer. This is coupled with the feeling of loss of an hours sleep which is quickly forgotten and once summer is here […]
The Best Easter Eggs This Easter
Easter eggs have been in the shops for several weeks now. The shops are always ten steps ahead of the buyer when it comes to making purchases for the next celebration available. As soon as we bid farewell to valentines day, Easter eggs began to line the shelves all ready to tempt the more organised […]
Our Lovely Lucy is Turning Three
It is quite unbelievable how fast the last three years of my life have moved. It seems only a moment ago that I was working full time as teacher and yet here I find myself preparing for Lucy’s 3rd birthday. We decided that this year would be the year to throw her a small family […]
Message Your Children With Toymail
Kickstarter really is the most popular and successful way for budding inventors to get their new ideas for gadgets and gizmos onto people’s radar. Any new invention can gain traction, publicity and eventually backing. Those lucky enough to back the more popular projects can not only be the first to get one of the new […]
App Review: Tesco Shopping App | iPhone | iPad
I have spent many years walking up and down supermarket aisles hunting down bargains, getting the necessities for our weekly life and grabbing the odd bottle of wine, chosen purely by the the fact that it was under a fiver. As soon as I had my first daughter, however, the idea of dragging her round […]
Potty Training: Our Experience And Gadgets That Could Help
As a family, we dreaded potty training our eldest daughter. The thought of having to surrender our carpets, sofas and selves to a repeated drenching did not fill us with joy or excitement. After consulting many friends about how they did it we felt none the wiser as we were told; ‘she’ll do it when […]
So Very Tired
Hours of sleep: 7 Number of wake ups: 3 Caffeine units: 4 As usual the Monday morning mayhem greeted us again with the welcome you would expect from a very unwelcome old friend. Despite the weekend being a predictable two days each week, we always feel like we have been cheated of time and left […]
Spring has Almost Sprung
Hours of sleep: 7 Number of wake ups in house: 2 Number of cups of tea coffee drunk to keep functioning: 5 Today has been a rarity in any parents weekly routine, both girls napped together and we actually managed to get some quality time together and get some things straight. The brighter the days […]
3 Fantastic Free Toddler Apps
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]e rely on apps to enable our family to function a daily basis. As anyone with two children will know it is not always possible to provide them both with stimulating activities and messy play opportunities. Sometimes you just need five minutes peace and this is when the use of apps comes into its […]