Follow this simple and easy guide to get your children prepared for school. Children often come from a preschool or day care centre with limited numbers of little children and limited size of area When starting school they are mixing with many much bigger children and a much larger area, they can feel lost and overwhelmed….
Yumbox The Yumbox offers a Bento style school lunch box which provides a compact lunchbox that when closed is easy to fit into school bags and is unlikely to break. When I initially opened the Yumbox I was surprised and impressed that it showed a number of different sections, each showing in size the amount…
Ensuring your child is energised and drinks water while at school is very important. Getting a good quality drink bottle that works well for your child is ideal, so we have been testing a number of key drink bottle brands to determine which drink bottles are the best for school and what features each product…
2017 has dawned on us quickly – for some of us too quickly – so now is a good time to start thinking about and planning for the school year ahead. This is particularly true if your kids are making the transition from junior to senior school, as there is a fair amount of preparation…
Do you dread the school holidays because you don’t know what to do with them? Love having your children at home for the break, because you can sleep in? Do they drive you up the wall with say-ings like ‘Mum, I’m bored!’ or ‘Mum, ‘he broke my Barbie’s arm!!!’? I do love having them around,…
Childhood is a critical time during which exposure to UV radiation is more likely to lead to skin damage and skin cancer later in life. As parents, we play an important role in ensuring the health and safety of our children’s skin, and helping them establish protective habits early. Modelling good sun protection behaviour ourselves…
Is there a connection between food additives and asthma, epilepsy and food allergies? With an increasing number of children being diagnosed with asthma, epilepsy and food allergies, it is no surprise that there is an enormous amount of information available regarding this topic. However, like with anything, before jumping to conclusions parents must take their…
Kid’s birthday parties: they can be fun for the kids, but quite stressful for the parents! I’ve put together a few tips for a less stressful experience… First and foremost: do not over-complicate the whole process! For example, sure homemade invitations are nice. As are homemade quiches, cake and decorations, and yeah the other parents…
Hosting a children’s birthday party can be an overwhelming and daunting task. All those kids making all that noise; it’s enough to drive every parent crazy! One of the challenging aspects of hosting a kid’s party is what to feed your little guests. The temptation (and expectation) to serve junk food and foods high in…
Rediscovering Time Under The Open Sky If there were a theory of the fantastic as there is for logic, then we would be able to discover the art of invention. (Novalis) In 1973, the Italian writer and children’s book author Gianni Rodari set this quotation in the introduction to his magnum opus, The Grammar of…
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