In a recent issue of Practical Parenting they had their awards for baby products, here are my favourites (in case you wanted to know?!)
Nappies

Pampers all the way. I have tried huggies and boots own brand but Pampers remain the favourite.
Nursery Item

The only one that springs to mind is Erin’s plug-in nightlight. It’s a [...]

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Rory at Hamelife demonstrates a further ten signs including book, shop and bank.

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Here are some more suggestions for developing fine motor skills that are all included as part of your child’s programme to get ready for school:
Cutting
Matching and pasting
Self-care Skills
Tracing and colouring
Pre-writing patterns
Dot-to-dots
Finger tracing and painting
(Nursery & School Guide Edinburgh 06/07)

Cutting
Scissorcraft has plenty of cutting activities for preschoolers, including pumpkins, snowflakes and dragons!
Matching and Pasting
Why not take [...]

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Get the building blocks out and make towers and castles.
Erin being only 11 months played with the blocks in her own way…chewing them and thrusting them at my mouth shouting “Ta” (I have requested a plastic teaset for her birthday!)
Click here for more activity ideas - Activities 2007

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Welcome to littlemummy.com and the second ever “Festival of Family Flair”. As a contributor at GNMParents I decided it would be nice to host the carnival here every so often. Please, however, check out GNMParents which is an international group blog for parents where everyone is welcome, each day there is an article [...]

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I’ve decided to have a traditional tea party in the house for Erin’s first birthday, which falls nicely on a Sunday (4th February).
I have decided that the theme of the party will be ‘Pink’.

So far my ‘thought shower’ (can you believe they have to call it that [...]

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This article from The Simple Dollar give a great insight into how to teach your kids about money.

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Phat Mommy needs tips on planning a trip to Disney.

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Fine motor skills are small muscle movements of the fingers that help your child to perform school readiness activities such as:
Painting with a paintbrush
Cutting with scissors
Drawing and writing using a pencil or crayon correctly
Holding and using a knife and fork
Holding and manipulating small objects
Craft activities
(Nursery & School Guide Edinburgh 06/07)

THE PLAN
Choose any theme you want [...]

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Crayola Bath Tablets

I bought a tub of these water colourants to help Santa out
….and I LOVE them, (oops), Erin LOVES them!!
There are five colours, five tablets of each. You can use a single tablet or mix colours together. At the moment we are just having fun, but I imagine they could [...]

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