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Designing a Kids’ Bathroom? Practical Things Parents Often Forget to Consider

Practical ideas for designing a kids’ bathroom, from safety and storage to child-friendly features that grow with your family. Discover what parents often forget to include.

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5 Vital Tips for Children Walking Home this Autumn

During the darker autumn and winter months, it’s important to consider how you can make your child safer if they’re walking home. According to the Office of National Statistics , 28% of all road accidents happen to those under 19 and peak time for pedestrians to be killed or seriously injured is 3-6pm, just when children are walking home from school.

So, this Autumn, here are 5 vital...

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Top Ten Handy Parenting Hacks from popular mumfluencer Casey Major-Bunce

Starting her Instagram account during the lockdown and after the birth of her twins, busy mum Casey wanted to make real connections with other mums. Casey's cost-effective and fun hacks have earned her over 200k Instagram followers, including Mrs Hinch & Stacey Soloman.

Casey joins us to share her Top Ten Hacks for making family life easier, cheaper and less stressful.

1. You can...

How to speak to your family about organ donation this Organ Donation Week

This week (September 18th to 24th 2023) marks Organ Donation Week - a week-long campaign that takes place every year, with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of organ donation as well as encourage people to confirm their support for donation on the NHS Organ Donor Register .

Whatever your own decision about organ donation, it is vital that you talk to your loved ones...

Back-to-School Sleep: 6 Steps to Bedtime Success

For many parents, the return to school brings about a familiar dilemma: helping our kids shift from summer freedom to a structured bedtime routine. With 9,073,832 students in the last headcount, bedrooms all over the nation will be having the same struggle.

Rest is crucial, not just for those growing bodies, but to fuel their young minds for the classroom. Shifting them from their...

Getting back-to-school ready: Ex-teacher shares tips for parents

As summer comes to an end, parents across the country are gearing up for the back-to-school season. However, transitioning from the laid-back summer routine to the structured school schedule can be a challenge for both parents and children with searches for “back to school advice” increasing by 280% in the past 30 days.

That’s why life insurance broker Reassured has teamed up with ex...

Insta Mum shares easy hacks to cut kids screentime

Insta Mum shares easy hacks to cut kids screentime – and says parents need to “give themselves a break” this summer

With rising concerns about kids screentime, a mum of 2 has shared easy tips to get kids off their phones this summer

“We can’t escape technology in modern life, but we can create balance,” says Beth from Roche, Cornwall.

As the summer holidays draws to...

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How to Be a Modern Parent in 2024

We all want to be the best parents we can be to our children, but there is often conflicting advice on how to raise a confident, kind, and active child. All aspects of parenting have become more complex and unpredictable during the pandemic; Parents juggle new tasks and stressful new decisions while grappling with the daily challenges that our people love about life. Throughout the parenting...

Toilet Wisdom: Beware of These Dangerous Items That Should NEVER Go Down the Drain

You should never be in a rush to flush, especially if what you’re trying to flush has no business being in a toilet in the first place.

Proper toilet usage and maintenance is crucial to the health of waterways and aquatic life; flushing unsuitable items can cost you a pretty penny in plumbing repairs, too. Toilet paper (and toilet paper only!) is all that you should flush.

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5 EXPERT TIPS TO RESTART YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL-TERM SLEEP ROUTINE

The flexibility and fun the holidays bring often means going to bed later and sleeping in, but how can parents feel back on track for the school run.

With schools usually starting around 8:30am, the holiday sleep routine of sleeping in until 9 or 10am is not going to work during term time.

Dr Lindsay Browning , psychologist, neuroscientist and sleep expert for And So To Bed shares...

Ladybird Survey Reveals Parents View Quality Time and Bonding as Top Benefits of Reading

In a recent survey commissioned by early years publisher Ladybird, more than 1,000 parents shared their thoughts about reading with their children, revealing that alongside many known developmental benefits, enjoying quality time together and nurturing the parent and child bond was one of the most important aspects for the participants.

The survey discovered that: