Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year, until it comes to gift shopping. Friends, parents, in-laws, does the list ever stop? You can ask them what they want and if you’re lucky you may even get an exact answer, but that takes all the romance out of gift giving! Alternatively there’s the…
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The 3 Kinds of Presents You Should Never Give
Read moreWhen you give someone a gift, it is meant to make them happy, right? Or at least, you just don’t want them to be unhappy or sad about it. One thing that I think is important to remember when giving gifts is that it can be a powerful form of communication. So it could be…
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Don’t forget your pets this Christmas!
Read moreChristmas is a time for family and friends. For eating good food, spending time with loved ones and gift giving and receiving, but will you remember your pet this Christmas? Just because your furry friend is a four legged creature and uses their tongue to clean themselves, that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve some TLC…
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Bigjigs Play Patrol Mission 4. Build-a-Bouquet and Tea Set Review
Read moreAgents Double Team have received their fourth Bigjgs Play Patrol mission an it’s one of my favourite ones so far! Mission four is to put our creative skills to the test to show you the creative potential of the toys we’ve been sent. So with this in mind we’ve been very creative taking lots of…
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My 1st Years Personalised Teddy Bear Review
Read moreI love gifts that have something unique about them. Something that shows a bit of thought has gone into it. This is one of the reasons why I’m making our girls a quilt each made out of their old baby clothes. When I was asked to review a product from My 1st Years, I chose two Personalised…
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Mindful Parenting
Read moreBefore your baby was born, how many books did you read about different parenting approaches? None? One? Three? More than three? There are lots of ‘experts’ and lots of different ways to be a parent. There are the Gina Ford advocates who depend heavily on daily routines and precise time slots. Then there are those…
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A Christmas Eve Tradition
Read moreI hadn’t planned to write this post today. In fact I had a post scheduled about something completely different, but on my way into work this morning I popped into the pound shop and decided to start an impromptu Christmas tradition! I have read a few blog posts over the past weeks about people giving…
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Picking Christening Gifts to Help with Future Success
Read moreImage courtesy of Simon Howden/Freedigitalphotos.net The future success of children is extremely unpredictable. We often have no choice but to support them in whatever direction they wish to the best of our ability. That said, we can often see very soon in their lives what kind of person they will want to be, as personalities…
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Spin Mania Game Review
Read moreSpin Mania is a speeding, spinning, time trial challenge. The game consists of a motorised spinning machine with an electronic timer, three orange helicopter-like rotary plates, a ‘spin-spike’, and three purple stands on which to set the plates once they are spinning correctly. The challenge is to ‘spin-up’ the three plates on the spinning machine…