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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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Research by Monopoly finds 2.3 million British children are unable to name more than 10 cities

New research from Monopoly has unveiled that UK children know more about virtual worlds and cities, found in video games and TV shows, than countries and destinations across the world.

Whilst over half of kids have heard of Gotham (55%), Zootopia (58%) and Neverland (60%), only a quarter have heard of Shanghai (25%), Milan (28%) or Cape Town (26%). In response, Monopoly has launched Monopoly...

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Learn Colour Psychology to Design the Ultimate Nursery

Colour has much more meaning than we might think. It evokes certain emotions and has a direct impact on our behaviour, personality, and memory. As psychiatrist Carl Jung said, “colours are the mother tongue of the subconscious”.

It’s no surprise that spa resorts incorporate calming greens, blues, and whites. These colours are associated with serenity and well-being. Similarly, the colours you...

How To Prepare a Safe and Cosy At-home Bonfire Night Experience For The Whole Family

Many of us can agree that, as a country, things have felt rather bleak recently, with harsh headlines and frightening front pages dominating the local news. Now more than ever, it’s important we find solace in the ‘little’ things while making the most of life’s simple pleasures. Bonfire Night offers an opportunity to do exactly that.

Also known as Fireworks Night, this event started...

Four Thrilling Adventures Inspired by Children’s Books

Release Your Inner Child! Four Thrilling Adventures Inspired by Children’s Books

You’re never too old for an adventure! The consensus seems to be that, once we hit a certain age, exciting adventures become few and far between. An adult in Britain typically works an average of 36.4 hours per week , and with common responsibilities such as mortgages, children, and household chores...

Magical Christmas Experience comes to Meadowhall

An immersive Christmas adventure is coming to Meadowhall from November, with an indoor secret world, an outdoor enchanted Winter forest and Santa’s grotto.

The Christmas Chronicles featuring the Santa Express experience is perfect for families with children of all ages and will open from Thursday 10 November on Upper Park Lane.

Guests will enter a cosy Christmas attic room...

Starting Early: 3 Body Positivity Lessons to Teach Your Children

There are many lessons we teach our children: from how to be kind to others to being diligent in their studies. But the most important lesson we need to teach them is how to love and accept themselves.

As role models, we want to instil ultimate body positivity into our little ones, so that they can walk confidently on the runway of life and withstand any external criticism.

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Pension Awareness Week: how to tackle the topic of pensions during a divorce?

According to National Family Mediation (NFM), which helps families to sort arrangements for children, property, finance and other important matters following separation or divorce, disagreements over pensions and finance feature in around 20% of cases that they deal with.

While the charity says that most people want to keep things as amicable as possible during the divorce process,...

Make Halloween less scary with these five safety tips

The scariest day of the year can become all the more menacing if injuries and allergic reactions strike. With this in mind, education experts at Skillstg.co.uk have outlined preventative measures and solutions to five potential Halloween dangers.

Carve your pumpkin carefully

Carving pumpkins that you may have picked yourself from a pumpkin patch can be a fun activity if...

5 top tips to keep your children safe online

Based on the most popular online content worldwide for children, 43.6% of parental control notifications in the first half of 2022 were as a result of children accessing software, audio, or video .

With it being such a fine balance between keeping your kids entertained yet safe in the modern age, experts at Proxyrack have shared 5 top tips to help keep your kids safe online .

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Kids Eat Free at Westfield London this October Half-Term

Over 20 restaurants at Westfield London commit to offering a ‘Kids Eat Free’ meal deal to support families during autumn school holiday

Westfield London , Shepherd’s Bush, announces the launch of a kids eat free meal offer at over 20 of its casual dining restaurants across the October half-term period.

Running from 21st to 31st October half term period, the offer aims to...