Fitness & Health

5 Health and lifestyle changes that will benefit you and your family

We all want to do the best for our families, and one of the best areas to focus on for their wellbeing is making good health and lifestyle choices. Whether you want to improve nutrition or prevent health risks from your own lifestyle choices, there are a variety of changes you can make to boost health for you and your family. Take a look at the following five tips we’ve listed below for positive…
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Parenting Skills

IS YOUR CHILD HIGHLY SENSITIVE?

Does your child seem to feel things more deeply or intensely than others and process everything more thoroughly? Are they prone to having hurt feelings, cry more easily and become very upset by criticism? Are they bothered by being in busy places or around too much noise and prefer quiet time? Then they may be a Highly Sensitive Child. What is high sensitivity? One in five children are born with…
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Parenting Skills

HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE AND PARENTING

WHAT IS HIGH SENSITIVITY? One in five people or 1.4 billion globally are born with the trait of high sensitivity (sensory processing sensitivity). Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) experience their emotions more deeply and intensely than non-HSPs and they process them for longer. They have high levels of empathy, are deeply compassionate, very intuitive and can pick up on subtleties that others are…
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Parenting Skills

Paying for Household Chores?

You want your child to grow up understanding the value of money.You yearn for them to understand you get paid if you work hard.But you also want them to understand that families need to work together and to help out when needed.So how do you decide if you should pay your child for household chores or not? Depending on what goals you have set for yourself as a parent, meaning…
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Fitness & Health

6 GENETIC DISORDER MYTHS

  There are about 6,000 different known genetic disorders in the world. It is estimated that one in 25 children in the UK is affected by a type of disorder, equating to around 30,000 babies and children being newly diagnosed each year. Some genetic disorders are apparent at birth while others are diagnosed at different stages throughout childhood, and sometimes into adulthood. It…
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Fitness & Health

What you can and can’t do during pregnancy

  Pregnancy can often be a confusing time for women. There are those of us that love training and staying fit and want to continue our routines and it can feel like we are being told to stop completely. Even if you are not usually very active, it can feel like a logical time to start a gentle routine to stay in good shape and feel strong for the upcoming birth, but again, it is difficult to know…
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Schooling

Why it just doesn’t add up - Expert's advice to improve maths' skills

Industry expert gives the inside scoop on how to get kids back in the Maths charts. I am a former teacher and creator of education app Maths Rockx and would like to share my advice on how to get kids to love learning again and improve their maths’ skills. Remember your school years? Let me guess your favourite subject – drama, music, art? Children are naturally drawn towards visual and…
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Schooling

The 11+ entrance exam journey

It’s wise to start planning early for your child’s move to senior school. Begin by finding out which local schools are available to your child, and consider how far you would consider commuting across London for the right school. If you are considering selective state or independent schools, it’s essential to have your child academically assessed. This will allow you to find out if they…
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Parenting Skills

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by how much you have to do? Why we have to do less

Too much to do as parent? How to work smarter, not harder so you can enjoy your kids more. As a working mum, I wish that my brain hadn’t often felt like a computer with too many tabs open. Or that it had not got to the point where an essential visit to my GP seemed self-indulgent. I wish that when my children were growing up, I hadn’t often bitterly observed how ‘having it all’…
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