If you are parents you will know how precious each life under your roof is. You will also know how many nappies you get through daily. So it may come as no surprise that UNICEF and Pampers are uniting, as they have every year since 2006, to highlight the threat that Maternal Newborn Tetanus (MNT) still presents across vast swathes of the globe. Maternal Newborn Tetanus is caused by the spores carried in the soil in the less … [Read more...]
Five tips for buying your School Run Coat
There are things that I am beginning to find essential in a coat now that I spent about half of my week on the school run. Never mind the latest fashion, if I am standing out in all weathers (which, lets face it, mostly means 'wind' and 'rain' and often 'both together' in the UK) then I want to be warm and dry and Vogue can go and hang itself. I'll give you a minute to recover from the very idea that I even know how to spell Vogue, never mind … [Read more...]
#ONEMums in Ethiopia
Overwhelming Never-ending Exhausting Maddening Unexpected: expect it. Mindboggling Simply lifechanging. Want to know what I'm on about? Lend your voice … [Read more...]
International Day of the Girl: lend your voice so they can have one
My girls are mad about Fairy Tales: the kind where the Princess and Prince fall in love and live happily ever after. LBG spent our entire three week trip to Arizona planning her wedding in intense detail: she will be wearing my white pool dress, her sister will carry her flowers, DH must wear his black jacket and I, I will drive the pink unicorns. Magical, right? The thing is, when you talk to her properly about weddings, much as she … [Read more...]
Back to School Games and Land’s End #roughandtumbleplay campaign
A couple of weeks ago The Girls and I were invited by Land's End to spend the afternoon at Freightliner's Farm in Islington. It's a City Farm that I am familiar with, as Islington was one of my old stomping grounds in my past life as a nanny. But it didn't feature the touchable Ben Shephard then. … [Read more...]
40+ ideas for how to keep children occupied on long journeys
I recently travelled with two pre-schoolers to Arizona: that's a seven hour flight followed by a five hour flight. Twelve hours in a limited space where sound carries really well. But we survived (I'm drafting this before our return trip so may yet need to edit!) and this is what I packed to keep the Girls occupied on board and on our week-long road trip in the middle of our holiday. mini pots of Playdough stickers: so many stickers, … [Read more...]
Things to do in Phoenix with children
Did I mention we are in Arizona? On a House Exchange? Did I also mention the pool? The Monster Truck? Don't get me started on the supermarket baking aisles will you? Travelling with children is always challenging, particularly when they are quite young. I try not to think about the last time we travelled to America. With a baby and a two-year-old. By the end of the flight I wanted to gouge my eyes out, especially when someone, as … [Read more...]
