Category: Pre-School (3-5)
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Child-friendly pubs? Do they exist in the UK
One thing we really lack locally is truly child-friendly pubs. We have pubs that tolerate children but none that really go beyond offering a children’s menu and many don’t even do that. It’s not that we want to take our daughter to the pub and get ‘fall down’ drunk but on a sunny day it…
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Didn’t your mother ever tell you you’ll go blind…..
I went to an event a while back; while I was there I lent my Ipad to one of the mum’s daughters to keep her occupied as it’s full to the brim with educational apps. Another mother, who wasn’t meddling or being judgmental, asked me if I worried about the affect it had on children’s…
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What the h*ll is Geocaching?
The best way I can describe it is an outdoor treasure hunt using GPS. You download an app onto your phone, which is £6.99 from the iTunes Store but the rest is free. Then you navigate to the location of the cache (container) and hopefully find it. Inside the container, depending on the size as…
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Some may call it Glamping….
I’ve slept rough in a public park in Budapest, got eaten alive in a hammock in Honduras, have camped wild in Canada and I once woke up behind a chair in my sitting room; so I think I’ve done my fair share of roughing it. So, when we were offered the chance, once I had…
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Bucket list for Kids: Fifty things to do before you’re 11 ¾
I really liked this list published by the National Trust, except for the addition of the health and safety bits which annoyed me and contradicted the entire article. However, the article made me rather nostalgic, thinking back to when I was growing up in Canada in the great outdoors. We were chucked out the…