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Motherhood & Wellness It can be tough to juggle the requirements of motherhood let alone considering otherresponsibilities such as work, caring for other family members, maintaining relationshipswith your spouse and also friends. For many of us, it can be challenging to maintain a good balance, be the best in all domainsand take care of ourselves!…
Sleep Regression – How to overcome so-called ‘ sleep regression ’ at eight months old At the age of eight months, many parents may feel like their baby is starting to experience so-called ‘sleep regression’ where a baby that was sleeping relatively well through the night suddenly seems to be constantly waking up. Lucy Shrimpton is the…
TEN TIPS FOR RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN. We all want our children to be successful at whatever path they wish to pursue. However, we all know there are plenty of bumps on the road to success. The most important thing we can teach our children is to be resilient. Your ability to promote resilience in your children correlates with your own self-efficacy emotional resilience. One of my mantras is Fortitudine vincimus endurance we conquer. Resilience…
Revealed: The Colours That Boost Your Children’s Well-Being While necessary, it is undeniable that the last twelve months of frequent lockdowns have had an impact on our children.Recent research from the Education Endowment Foundation has found that lockdown impacted children’s language and speech, setting them back in their learning. Most concerningly, the pandemic has had a profound effect on…
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK: MAKE TIME TO TALK With a potential mental health pandemic in the pipeline, talent advisory expert warns of need to get staff talking As the UK joins together for Mental Health Awareness Week still in the grips of a pandemic, AMS (formerly Alexander Mann Solutions), a global provider of talent outsourcing…
Parent Or Pal? 6 Ways To Earn Your Child’s Friendship Sadhguru is a yogi, humanitarian and NY Times bestselling author. Here, he looks at whatparents need to do to earn their child’s friendship and create an atmosphere that will help thechild blossom. Sadhguru: A few hundred years ago, John Wilmot, an English lord, said somethingsignificant…
AM I TOO ANXIOUS TO HAVE A BABY? BY SARIE TAYLOR Am I too anxious to have a baby? Having suffered with severe anxiety in my early 20’s, so much so that I was hospitalised for a month, I was so petrified that if I did have a baby (which I really wanted) that I…
Music had been my first love. I began playing piano when I was just 5 and I wrote my first song at 15. But music wasn’t considered a real job back then, so I had fallen into a sales career. In 2001, I met the man of my dreams and after 3 years, we…
Meet Lynn from Rhyme to Read -A Program for Beginning Readers Early in my teaching career, I could not find the tools readily needed to help kids learn to read in an easy step-by-step way that was interactive, progressive, and fun. When I started looking for such a tool, I had no idea that I would…
MY KIDS DON’T DEFINE ME BY LAUREN CROSBY MEDLICOTT Lauren is a Freelance Writer, specialising in mothering issues. She is an American, but moved to Wales to marry her husband, and now has three little Welsh boys. She would love to hear, so feel free to get in touch! My kids don’t define me. I…