Parenting
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ThaiKhun at Intu Metro Centre Review
The Intu Metro Centre is a huge local shopping mall in Gateshead that has lots of shops, restaurants and entertainment including an IMAX ODEON cinema. You can read more about the shopping centre in a blog post here. They are always introducing new shops and restaurants to the centre and I decided to visit last month after hearing a lot of new places to eat had opened up. One new restaurant in particular caught my eye, called Thaikhun and after reading the menu and having a little peak inside at the decor I just had to try it out. I went for the first time with my mum whilst on…
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PokemonGO – Are You Sitting on a GO-ld Mine?
You may have heard recently of a new app/game called PokemonGO which already has a lot of people completely hooked. For those of you who don’t know, it basically has you out trying to catch Pokemon, using your phone. You can see on a map when there are Pokemon nearby and people will travel and drive all over to catch them. When you come in close contact with one on the map, you can use your camera to ‘see it’ and attempt to catch it. Although it might seem like a rather pointless game it is getting people moving which I guess is a good thing. It’s feeling like the…
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Is Your Garden Toddler Safe for Summer?
As parents, we’re frequently bombarded with information about how to keep our little ones safe around the home. If you have a toddler roaming around the house you’ll be well versed in baby gates, what to do to keep wires out of the way and thanks to the series of TV adverts running at the moment you should be well aware of the dangers of not keeping washing liquitabs out of reach. But are you equally savvy when it comes to protecting them when they head out into the yard or garden? This post explores some of the safety issues you may want to consider as summer approaches. Supervision and…
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The Perfect Parent Brigade
I just had to write this post and although I didn’t know what I was going to write before I started, I knew I had to write something. Most parents by now will have heard of the term ‘Perfect Parent Brigade’. If you haven’t then basically it is a term given (usually over social media) to parents who believe they know better and who tell other parents, basically, how to be a parent. Almost all parents will have been on the receiving end of comments from a member of the ‘perfect parent brigade’ and especially if you became a mum/dad after all the Facebook parenting groups and pages began. Our grandparents/parents were quite…
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Christmas Time and New Year – Looking Back
It took me quite a while to find the time to write this post. The Christmas period was such a busy time and I just never got round to doing it. So in April, I am looking back over photos and remembering the great times we had and how this Christmas was my son’s first proper Christmas! He is 2 years old and technically it is his 3rd Christmas however it was the first one that he got excited about and kind of understood some of what was happening. It was the first one that he could properly open his presents and the first Christmas that he could talk to Santa. Anyone…
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I am not ready for Nursery..
My little guy turned 2 on Halloween and I know that now is the time to start looking in to Nurseries for him. I haven’t a clue what I am doing but after a lot of research and speaking to other parents I knew I needed to get on the case now and start looking around. I never expected it to be so difficult and in my mind he would just be going to the local one near to our house where we have recently moved. It never really crossed my mind about having an option of where he went. I didn’t even know there were many other Nurseries near…