Category: Parenting
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How to Keep Younger Children Safer When Using Computers
Featured Post More than a third of all 3-4 year-olds are now accessing the internet in their homes. My daughter has been accessing computers since she was two, and swipe technology has made this possible. She whizzes around the iPhone and iPad better than her father does and can often be seen on my lap…
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9 Fun Things to do with Strawberries
Did you know that there are 35 varieties of British Strawberries and that the average strawberry has 200 seeds on them? Fascinating stuff. My daughter likes nothing better than eating strawberries straight out of the punnet. Now that they are coming into season here in the UK, I found myself this afternoon, instead of catching…
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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Once a teacher always a teacher? Not sure what possessed me, whether it’s because I won’t let her have a dog or she doesn’t have any siblings, but at Christmas I bought her a Live Butterfly Garden. In the box, you get the net, all the instructions plus a certificate to order your baby caterpillars when…
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Glamping Holidays in Devon near the beach
You know when you go on holiday and you just want to get home to your own bed? This wasn’t one of those holidays. I would have loved to stay longer. We didn’t go away last half term so we were hoping to have a short trip this break. We started to troll the net…
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Quick Creamy Prawn and Spinach Pasta Recipe
We were out all day on Sunday and I wasn’t organised enough to put anything in the slow cooker in the morning so when we got home it was a bit of a scramble for dinner as we were low on groceries as well. I raided the freezer and found a couple of bags of…