Tips & Bits
Hints for hassle-free family travel and other snippets
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Raising li’l engineers with Meccano
Meccano is the go-to toy for curious innovative minds to sharpen STEM, robotics and engineering skills.
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Free Online Lockdown Links for Kids
Parents very enthusiastically posted a gazillion links and activity ideas at the beginning of lockdown here in South Africa. Many companies have generously come to the party with free access to usually paid-for content. I mostly scrolled on by as…
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3 Quick Lunchbox Recipe Ideas
New school year means a new season of brain wracking to keep up with providing tasty, varied, economical and yet healthy lunchbox snacks. Eek! I rely on a few quick lunchbox recipe ideas to supplement my repertoire of other bits…
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7 Family Christmas Traditions
As an adult, I still get caught up in all the magic at Christmas but the season really is made infinitely more special when there are small children around! I relish pouring over beautiful Christmas magazines full of gorgeous décor,…
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Ace Self-Catering With Kids
As much as I relish the laziness and luxury of a hotel or a resort where you don’t lift a finger, the reality is that it’s often far more relaxing and fun to do self-catering with kids. Quite often a…
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How Antioxidants Help Your Family
Hands up if your kid’s dinner plate resembles a rainbow of colourful nutrient rich veggies every single night? Oh and wait…on top of that they actually eat them all, and all the fruit you offer them? Hmmm, I thought not.…
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Tips For Flying With Kids
The phrase “flying with kids” might well elicit a nervous giggle or possibly even a shiver of dread but really, it can be done! At the very least it can be tolerable. The secret lies in channelling your inner A-type…
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Essential Tips For Road Trips With Kids
Longer car journeys with the kids evoke mixed feelings in me. Is it endure or enjoy? Truthfully, it usually includes both. In our house, we relish in the initial buzz of excitement as we set off down the road on…
