If you’ve opted to spoil the planet like many other parents (including myself) then the big question is Huggie or Pampers, which is the best disposable nappy?
Huggies and pampers are the leading disposable nappy brands regularly going head to head in marketing campaigns selling the virtues of their own and generally dissing the [...]

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Mother at Large asked me the other day if I had written about bubbles yet, and I was surprised to find, after browsing the archives that I haven’t…
Bubbles are a great quick activity for babies through to about eight or nine. Babies are fascinated by the bubbles they’ll stare at them gliding through the [...]

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I received an email recently with a tip on finger painting, which I thought I’d share
Kids can do finger painting using pudding. You just make up a batch of vanilla and separate it out into bowls adding whatever food color you choose. Then let them go to work. The little ones will always be sticking [...]

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The books and magazines would have you believe that you need everything. I’ll let you into a little secret, you don’t need all that stuff, but what you DO need you need A LOT of, especially in the newborn phase.
I’m going to attempt an inventory of everything I actually used during pregnancy, birth and [...]

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A while back Dorling Kindersley sent me a couple of books to try out and write a review on, if I so wished.
Both books are written by Dr Miriam Stoppard, most of you will have heard that name before, she is a famous childcare expert that writes various columns for parenting magazines, she is also [...]

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A couple of other bloggers have written an ABC list for summer inspiration. I did it for Christmas so here’s my Summer edition.
Aeroplane Spotting
Bark Rubbing
Chocolate Krispie Cake Making
Dvd Night
Eating Competition (Dooking for apples or donut on a string?)
Foot Printing
Gardening
Hide & Seek
Ice Biscuits
Jigsaw Puzzles
Kite Flying
Library visit
Make a Mosaic from Old Cards
Nature Walk + Scavenger Hunt
Organize [...]

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Erin turned sixteen months yesterday, if she’d received a pound for every time someone asked me if she is walking yet she’d have a healthy car/mortgage deposit/uni fund by now.
Erin stood unaided for the first time today, she also walked for the first time with her push along toy, and refused to be [...]

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There’s always so much information about breastfeeding but never much guidance for formula feeding. This is just a general idea of what’s involved, you should always read the instructions on the tin.
1. Read the back of the tin it gives clear directions and measurements.
2. Take a sterilized bottle and fill with cooled boiled [...]

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Erin’s current daily vocabulary;
“Hiya” (not hello)
“Oh, dear”
“Oh, no”
“Oh, yeah”
“Pretty girl/shoes”
“Two” (never one, or three)
“Good Girl”
“ah, ah, ah” or “bah” (when someone, usually me, is being naughty, or telling her off)
“Garden” (to play round and round the garden)
“aargh, baby”
“goggle, goggle, goggle” (I have no idea, either?!)
“Ta” (at least she has manners)
“dog, dog”
“mum”
“dad”
“dad-dad” (Grandad)
What’s more funny, than [...]

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Summer is almost here, I have already been caught short during April when we had some amazing weather and I was out without any sun protection, Tsk Tsk, there go those mothering standards again. I’m now armed with the suncream and hat at all times, but is it enough?
Sun safety week begins on Monday [...]

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