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Health and Lifestyle
Keep your families minds and bodies in top shape with our essential health and lifestyle guide

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Tips for preparing your child for a hospital stay by Rachel Mcclain. A child would rightfully be terrified of spending a night in the hospital, let alone a week, or a month. They can be cold, sterile environments and even at their best, they are simply not as comfortable as their homes. Preparing a child for a hospital stay is imperative to making it a little more comfortable and a little less scary for them.

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Soothing Oat Face Mask
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A great way to revitalise tired summer skin is to use a soothing face mask. Easy to prepare and a real treat for your skin.
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Handy tips for summer outdoor survival.
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So that you are always prepared for most eventualities put together a small ‘summer survival pack’ that goes wherever you and your family go. Also remember try not to wear really bright colours or strong perfumes… they attract our buzzing friends!!

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NLP-this can change your parenting life.
Lifestyle

Change your life with NLP.NLP is the most fantastic set of skills and abilities that you can easily learn that allow you to get more juice out of life.  It's full name is Neuro-Linguistic Programming and stems from the premise that all our behaviours and thought patterns are repeated sequences, which is great, because that means that any behaviour that we no longer desire can be changed.   For parents who have ever gone to bed muttering to themselves ‘I will do it differently tomorrow’, this is fantastic news.

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Free Range Kids
Lifestyle

When I think of summers as a child, I remember long days playing out on my bike, making mud pies, walking to the corner shop to get a tin of chicken soup (my favourite lunch!) cut knees, making up ghost stories about the ‘haunted’ house at the end of the road, making new friends and being called in for tea, exhausted and hungry. Fast forward to 2010 and would our children’s stories sound the same?...

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