5 Steps To Enhance Your Family's Wellbeing

5 Steps To Enhance Your Family's Wellbeing

Looking after your family is not an easy job, each family member has different needs and stressors, and it’s often hard to keep everyone happy! To support your family and improve your lifestyle, consider these five steps.

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Preparing for Your First Post-Lockdown Break

Preparing for Your First Post-Lockdown Break

A summer break with the kids is something that most of us spend the rest of the year looking forward to. Even if you take regular shorter trips, that one big summer holiday after a long year at work and school is something to be relished. Our kids don’t stay little for very long, and we’re eager to make the most of these family summer holidays for as long as we can.

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How to Raise a Confident Child

How to Raise a Confident Child

Some children enjoy talking to others and making new friends, however, many children find the school environment incredibly difficult because they lack confidence. Fortunately, this is something that parents can help their children to overcome, using a few simple techniques.

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Helping Your Child Resist Peer Pressure

Helping Your Child Resist Peer Pressure

Peer pressure is something that most children will encounter at some point during their childhood.
Peer pressure is when your child feels like they have to do something just because all of their friends are doing it, or when friends try to influence their decisions or actions.

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Top Tips for Helping Your Kids with Maths

Top Tips for Helping Your Kids with Maths

It is not unusual for kids to find maths a difficult subject and seek additional support. Even if your maths skills aren’t particularly strong, there are many ways you can help your child with mathematics at home. Here are six top tips from Banstead Preparatory School to help you get started…

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8 Things You Should Have In Your Travel Bag

8 Things You Should Have In Your Travel Bag

For the inexperienced, sometimes packing for a vacation, a family visit, or a business trip can feel like attempting to solve a rocket science problem. How do you carry every essential thing and not end up carrying too much luggage or breaking TSA rules?

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How to Plan Your Finances After a Crisis

How to Plan Your Finances After a Crisis

This year has definitely changed the way many of us think about our homes, our work and how we spend our money.

For some this has been a boom time, if you produce or deliver food it could have been one of your best years. However for most 2020 has meant job losses, furlough, uncertainty and deep thinking about what the rest of the year holds.

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5 Ways to Save Money on a Tight Budget

5 Ways to Save Money on a Tight Budget

If 2020 has taught us anything it’s that we really don’t know what the future holds! At a time when jobs, companies large and small and providers of any services are struggling to adapt we all need creative ways to save money where possible.

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Fun Activity Ideas for Parents Raising a Bilingual Child

Fun Activity Ideas for Parents Raising a Bilingual Child

Raising bilingual children is a rewarding and challenging thing, one that I am thankful to be doing every day. While my kids aren’t always as interested in traditional learning, they are open to activities where learning does not feel to be the primary goal.

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10 Indoor Activities You Can Do with Your Kids

10 Indoor Activities You Can Do with Your Kids

Being stuck at home with the kids can sometimes get the best of you. You always need to follow their trail, clean up their clutter, and try to keep them from harm’s way. But staying in with your tiny tots isn’t as bad as it seems, especially when fun activities are involved.

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GCSE’s Results Day 2020 - How Grades Are Calculated

GCSE’s Results Day 2020 - How Grades Are Calculated

The government announced that exams this year will not take place to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

Schools closed their doors in March and studies grounded to a halt. In these unprecedented times, many parents are worried about their children’s education and what this means for their grades.

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5 Stunning Jewellery Trends for Summer

5 Stunning Jewellery Trends for Summer

Now that Summer is finally here it’s time to get out that wardrobe of gorgeous dresses and change up our accessories. I love that the simplest piece of silver or gold jewellery can really lift an outfit from the everyday to something which makes a statement.

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How to Raise a Science Lover

How to Raise a Science Lover

Many parents are a bit nervous when it comes to helping their children with science, particularly if they’re not very good at it themselves. However, most of the time, when it comes to helping your child with their schoolwork, the key is to have the right attitude.

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Should I Encourage My Child to Learn an Instrument?

Should I Encourage My Child to Learn an Instrument?

From promoting better time management skills to improving the mind and body, extra-curricular activities tend to be a fantastic option for both children and adults. Of course, it depends on the activity in question, but they can be an enjoyable method of staying fit and healthy or just allowing your kids to let off some steam after their time at school.

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