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I know, I know, school hasn’t even finished yet in most of the UK and I am talking about planning for going back to school. But trust me on this one, you really need to be planning for going back to school now.
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There’s no denying that over the long summer holidays children lose the momentum they’ve had for learning over the previous year at school. Key concepts might be forgotten and they could simply get out of the habit of applying their brain on a regular basis. It is beneficial to your children to keep their brains
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My boys are getting to the age where I am becoming happy to leave one of them at home for five minutes when IÂ drop the other off somewhere or have to run a quick errand.
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Do your kids help with the cleaning? Â I hate cleaning up, but love a tidy house! So it is important to me that the boys know what is expected of them and one of those things to to be involved in cleaning. Â So yes my kids do the housework and no they do not moan
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It comes as no surprise to me and yes I see the irony that this post is being written at 2.21am in the morning as I have always suffered from insomnia, but my sleeping pattern or ability to sleep got much worse when I became a mum and my insomnia became “mumsomnia”.
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Being a parent can be a slog. Â I am not going to lie there are times when I find mothering a monotony. Â Now do not get me wrong, I adore my children and have come to know that I was born to be a parent, but heck there have been days and even months when
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Natwest Fairer Savings have asked me to share with you #MySaverStory past, present and future.  The truth is I have never really been a saver, well not until my health scare.  Before that I pretty much winged though life.  Both the husbeast and I were in great jobs and we were off the mindset that credit was fine
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Our children are growing up and learning in an environment so different to when I was at school. Â Online technology is a given. Â Video content is available at the click of a button. Â I remember the school only having one TV on wheels and often my class would come to my parents house to watch
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Both of my boys are at an age where they have a real thirst for knowledge and there are times when they want to continue that learning at home. Â We were recently sent some Letts “Wild About” learning books. This got me thinking about when it is appropriate to use workbooks at home and how
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