Yes, it’s almost Mothers Day again – have you thought about how to thank your Mum for everything she has done for you?
As always, we have a mothers day page brimming with ideas for you, but thought we’d give you a few extras here as well…
send Mum out on the town with other Mums so [...]
Christmas is the time for children. They don’t have school, their family is around them, their house is colourful and decorated, the smell of sweets is in the air and, most of all, Santa is coming.
Children are the ones that keep the magic alive for Christmas as their belief and excitement feeds the cheer that [...]
Allergies can be really annoying and prevent your from doing the most basic tasks as you try to deal with the watery eyes, runny nose and the sneezes. Being in the middle of Spring and all the pollen and various other things floating around in the air, allergies and hay fever are at their peek. [...]
We have just added our blog to the Minti parenting site – savetime.minti.com – so that more parents can find ways to save time online by finding great Aussie sites easily, entering competitions or reading articles and tips.
If you run a blog, do you have it feeding anywhere else? Has it helped you get the [...]
If you are giving thanks today or receiving or both, we hope that you have a fantastic Father’s Day that displays the love and appreciation usually taken for granted. Father’s Day is a day that shows us how precious parenting is to our lives and how little we actually thank the most important part of [...]
With the World Breastfeeding Week coming to a close it’s needed to say that breastfeeding isn’t always as smooth as something that we are naturally meant to do usually is. There are often complications that prevent or slow down the process of breastfeeding such as nipple problems, infections and abscesses
Usually these complications can be fixed. [...]
I have never heard of mad libs before, but apparently they have been widely used to teach children some grammatical terms in a fun way – maybe this is more common in the USA, or maybe I just missed out!
Anyway, a mad lib is where you choose some randoms words – nouns, adjectives, verbs and [...]
Well, apparently it is just after Mothers Day but close enough!
The people who bring you Real Mums are running Mums Night Out in Melbourne on Friday 16 May, along with the Real Mums Awards. Everyone who goes to Mums Night Out gets a goodie bag to take home – and each one has stuff valued [...]
An increasing number of parents are running their own business, which means they often find themselves doing a real juggling act. As we are both Mums and business owners, we get it!
One thing to note is that the juggling act changes over time, so don’t expect that what is working today will work next year [...]
I just came across the following story/information – it is a few years old and American so the dollar figures probably are nothing like the reality but the numbers aren’t important for the message…
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle [...]