We are about to move both children out of their shared room, into their own bedrooms, so we are looking at decorating each room and making them special for each child, whilst working within a budget. This helpful collaborative post is has useful tips for decorating your child’s room… It’s nice to spend time […]
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Ora Towels – not just kitchen towel
When is kitchen towel not just kitchen towel? Well, according to my small son, it;s when it come in a “packet that looks like a rocket” and to my daughter, when she can use it for all sorts of crafts and creativity, and for me, it’s when you have a tough, multi purpose, easy to […]
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Helping families with some tips on being dry at night
This is a collaborative post with some tips on being dry at night for kids and parents dealing with potty training and bedwetting at night. Potty training is a learning curve for both children and their parents. I know that I’ve learned a lot about what works for both, in the twenty years I’ve been […]
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Pets & Fireworks…
I love a good firework display. The colours, the bangs and sparkles. I’m not a kill joy, by any means. There are certain times of the year when you know there are going to be fireworks set off, in your area. Either publicly arranged displays, or privately in people’s gardens. New Year’s Eve being one […]
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What you don’t see – my child makes a lot of noise and it drives me a bit mad…
This is my series on parenting a child with a higher set of needs than his peers. Our beautiful boy, has a diagnosis of sensory processing disorder, mainly auditory, with some emotional/behavioural issues. We don’t know if this is because of the earlier ear/infection/hearing issues he had, or if he will “grow out of” his […]
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Conversations about when to stop using car seats…
In my previous job as a children’s nurse, I looked after several children who had been badly injured in car accidents, due to wrongly used or fitted car seats. It affected me, very much, and when I had my own children, I became and still am rigid about car seat safety and my children stay […]
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Finding my confidence as a parent.
It’s funny, because even though I was a nanny, then a pediatric nurse, and having worked with many families and children over the years, when I was handed my own baby, my first born, all of my knowledge and experience went out of the window. My husband and I literally looked at each other, over […]
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Keeping hair accessories organized with The Hair Helper
If you have a daughter or girl in your life with lots of hair accessories then you need The Hair Helper in your life too… In our house, we have uncountable numbers of hair accessories, between my daughter and I. We both have long hair, and this requires hair ties (plain ones for me) and […]
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Being kind to sensitive skin with Surcare
My teenager has very sensitive skin, and struggles with outbreaks of severe excema. She gets very sore patches on her legs, arms, trunk, and back. She’s struggled with this for a long time, and we have pretty much got a good skincare routine going, and know that certain things in her diet, and some enviromonmental […]
READ MOREWhat you don’t see: getting a babysitter isn’t easy…
This is my series on parenting a child with a higher set of needs than his peers. Our beautiful boy, has a diagnosis of sensory processing disorder, mainly auditory, with some emotional/behavioural issues. We don’t know if this is because of the earlier ear/infection/hearing issues he had, or if he will “grow out of” his […]
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