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3rd December 2009

Christmas Car Journeys - A Survivors' Guide

Many of us make trips to visit family and friends around Christmas and of course over the New Year. As such I get lots of questions from frazzled parents enquiring whether I have any tips to make those…

Tags: drama, dance and singing, Toddlers, christmas, children, Car Journeys, Games

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27th November 2009

The Long & the Short of it...

Earlier this week I read with interest an article on the SchoolGate blog by Sarah Ebner. I don't want to re-hash the article here, but by way of giving a little background - the article detailed…

Tags: child development, News, Debate, Society's Labels

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23rd November 2009

Christmas - The Rules

This post has been inspired by a couple of other lovely posts which I've read today from Wahm-Bam! and Metropolitan Mum. So December's rapidly approaching and I'm somewhat in denial. Every…

Tags: christmas, Rules

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16th November 2009

The Vetting & Barring Scheme

October saw the launch of the new Vetting & Barring Scheme (VBS). The new scheme has come about as a result of the Bichard Inquiry which followed the murders of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells in 2002.…

Tags: News, VBS, CRB, Bichard Inquiry

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15th November 2009

What's in a Name?

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.*". It's a fabulous quote and one which springs to my mind whenever the subject of baby names comes…

Tags: Baby, baby names

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