Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
In this guest post professional baby and child photographer Mui Tsun shares her tips on how to improve your family snaps. To me, child photography is not just about cute faces and big smiles; it is about capturing a little person’s unique personality. To do this, we need to capture a child’s natural expressions, which is [...]
Recently in The Times the weekend section was titled “Who needs Nintendo? How to have an Enid Blyton summer” and was full of some great articles by people like Dr. Tanya Byron and Chris Packham about putting the fun and freedom back into children’s outdoors experience and the value of unsupervised and unstructured play where imaginations [...]
The summer holidays are finally here which is great for the kids… but what about the parents? Mums and dads all over the country will be trying to concoct a host of ideas of how to keep the kids entertained for six weeks. Many will also be trying to come up with ideas of how [...]
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There are more pregnancy and motherhood advice books on the market than you can shake a Clearblue stick at! Most of them are earnest, some of them are finger-wagging, and others seem designed to make you feel guilty every second of the day. This is not one of those books. Written by Zoe Williams, the Guardian journalist [...]
The end of the holidays is finally here….and this coming week sees the start of school for thousands of children across the country . So here are some tips to make their first day at school go smoothly – and to help avoid any tears (for you and your child)! 1. Be organised. Try and [...]
I’m sure I can’t be alone in having Paranoid Parenting moments. We are bombared with so much information about what our children should eat, wear, play with, think etc that I often have days when I feel I’m just doing everything wrong! I berate myself for not buying organic food. I chastise myself for letting my children watch [...]
As we come towards the end of the holiday a small shadow is encroaching on my holiday bliss; my youngest son, my baby, is starting school. A year ago I went through the emotional roller coaster of my eldest son starting school. Just as I had been warned since the day he was born – the time [...]
We recently posted a blog post, “From Mummy to Yummy in half the time!”, in which Tanith Carey, the author of “How to be an Amazing Mum…” shared some quick tips on how to look your best when the clock is ticking. Having read the whole of Tanith’s fabulous book of time-saving tips from cover [...]
Don’t tell the ‘parent police’ but I let my son have chocolate buttons on toast for breakfast on his birthday. I joked with a friend that I had been a ‘bad mummy’, but actually when I thought a little more about it I decided I had probably been the opposite: a good mummy. As parents [...]
