Activities

KEEPING THE KIDS ENTERTAINED THIS EASTER WILL BOOST THE ECONOMY BY £2 BILLION

Parents will be spending on average £306.22 to entertain their children over the Easter school holidays this year. But shockingly, eight out of ten British children don’t know the true meaning of Easter, in fact a quarter of children think Easter is to celebrate the Easter Bunny’s birthday. A shocking 79% of British parents have reported that their children are clueless about the true…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Clocking Off for Easter

The hard earned Christmas break seems a distant memory and your kids are looking forward to the Easter holidays and the chocolate treats that come with it.  If you run your own business, ensuring you meet the needs of both your family and your customers can be tricky; especially when it comes to the school holidays.  Childcare is expensive and yet you don’t want to spend the holidays either…
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Travel with kids

Try out Tenerife

If you have young children and you’ve just entered the years where you have to take holidays in the school holidays only, it’s a bit of a rude awakening to discover just how much the prices go up during these times. And with schools being so strict about taking kids out of term time, you really don’t have much of a choice about when you take family holidays anymore. But never fear! There…
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Travel with kids

TOP SPOTS FOR AN EGGCELLENT EASTER

New poll reveals the top UK attractions for a family day out this Easter. Nearly half of families think the Natural History Museum is the perfect day trip. With Easter and the school holidays upon us, a new poll has revealed the top ten days out for families in the UK over the bank holiday weekend. According to the survey of 1,010 parents conducted by Ffrees Family Finance that helps families…
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Get Creative

Top Tips for an Eggstra Special Easter with your family!

Easter is just around the corner and whilst we welcome the long break to spend more quality time with our families, the unpredictable British weather can leave us stuck inside and feeling a little stir crazy. Online care provider Care.com’s resident Nanny expert Rosemary Albone knows only too well how challenging it can sometimes be to keep the little ones entertained. Here, Rosemary offers…
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Books

Books to read with the kids over Easter

Celebrate Easter with the kids with some great new books. Duck Says Don’t Really funny but also educational story for young leaders in the making, a good lesson to be learnt! Goose has gone away and left Duck with the job of looking after her beautiful pond. Duck promises to take good care of it but he soon gets annoyed by the splashing, swimming, racing, fishing, jumping and diving going on…
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Books

Great Children’s Reference Books - Spring 2013

Here is a selection of London Mums’ favourite reference books recently published. The Children’s Bible I have been on the hunt for a Bible for children for years and finally DK is publishing it. Who doesn’t like the greatest story ever told anyway? Whether you are religious or not you have to agree that the Bible is an amazing source for great stories. How did Noah survive the…
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Pregnancy & Birth

Old Wives Tales

From the conception of her baby to its birth, every pregnant woman is bombarded by a variety of old wives tales. There is a tale for every stage of pregnancy and it is impossible for pregnant women to escape the myriad pieces of advice and predictions relating to their unborn children. But are pregnant women being led up the garden path or do these tales actually have any scientific worth? To…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 3 CDs of Lullaby Renditions Of Blur

Lullaby Renditions Of Blur is released on 26th March 2013 by Rockabye Baby Music (RRP: £11.99). Rockabye Baby Lullaby Renditions Of Blur is the first official UK release from this premium brand that is quite possibly the hottest children’s lullaby series in the United States. Rockabye Baby music series transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. Delicate instruments…
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Competitions

Win1 of 5 copies of the Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia

Explore all of space and time with the Doctor and over 200 of his friends and foes in the Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia published on 2nd April 2013 by DK (Price: £12.99 – Age 7+).     Step aboard the TARDIS, adjust your bowtie and grab your sonic screwdriver: the good Doctor has arrived to sweep you away on his time-travelling adventures with the Doctor Who Character…
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