Experts at Loughborough University are appealing for help with a project designed to improve safety for children travelling in cars.
Academics at the University’s Transport Safety Research Centre (TSRC) are asking parents and carers who ferry children around by car to complete an online survey.
The anonymous survey will contribute to CASPER (Child Advanced Safety Project for European Roads), a Europe-wide project to develop better child restraints.
It asks drivers about their experiences with child car seats and seat belts.
Screaming and chucking the toys out of the pram – and that’s just the parents…
· First 24 months following childbirth are the most stressful time of our lives
· Changing nappies, choosing baby names and interfering in-laws drive us to distraction
The first two years following childbirth are the most stressful years of our lives – that’s the verdict of a new study which suggests that the first 24 months following a first born witness more bickering and marital strife than at any other time across the course of a lifetime.
The survey of 2000 British parents with children under the age of 16, was specially commissioned to mark the DVD release of ‘Life As We Know It’ out on Monday 28thMarch. This lighthearted rom-com starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, explores the hilarious calamities of unexpected parenthood when the couple are left to bring up their best friends’ child and quickly realise that they must juggle careers and social calendars whilst setting their differences aside.
Pregnancy-related depression is not just confined to after the baby’s birth, but can begin during pregnancy, according to the Mother and Baby Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).
A study recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that women who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth are more likely to suffer from depression during and after subsequent pregnancies.
SLaM’s Mother and Baby Unit regularly sees women who have developed depression during pregnancy or a relapse of a serious mental illness triggered by becoming pregnancy.
Silverburn is playing host to an authentic Italian market from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th April.
Featuring the finest Italian foods including cheese, salami, olives, Sicilian arancini, cannoli and calzoni: the market will also have on sale delicious olive oils and a selection of balsamic vinegars as well as pastries and handmade sweets.
The Italians are famed for their exquisite taste in stylish accessories and so the market will also have on display a selection of stunning Murano glass pendants and rings.
David Pierotti, Silverburn’s centre director, is delighted to host a taste of Italy at Silverburn.
David commented: ”We strive to create a dynamic shopping experience at Silverburn by presenting visitors with the unexpected. This is a delicious addition to the Silverburn offer and we are confident that it will be appreciated by those who share the Italian passion for food as well as style.”
A parcel arrived at my door a few days ago and not having ordered anything recently, I assumed it was my husband's birthday gift for me... a bit out of character though as he's normally a last minute purchaser and it's still a few weeks until my birthday!
Anyway, when I looked at the docket that came with it I quickly realised it was something fun for me to review - one of six brand new Paper Jamz Series 2 guitars! (You may already be aware of the whole Paper Jamz phenomenon as the Series 1 guitars were one of the best selling toys of 2010.)
I decided to wait until the children came home from school before opening it as I wanted to surprise them and oh boy were they surprised. You see, on recent trips to our local toy store they'd been testing them out but I hadn't yet bought one as I was thinking they'd make good birthday presents. With a few birthdays in the very near future, Paper jamz had been ear-marked!
We quickly read the instructions, which were very thorough and my son decided it was only fair that he get to play it first - what with being the only boy and the youngest - and so it was!
The guitar we received was Guitar Style 11, as pictured above, a very funky, and proper hard rocker-style guitar which included 3 hit rock songs to play along to: Invincible (Adelitas Way), Woman (Wolf Mother) and Devour (Shinedown). Jack took to it immediately much to the delight of the rest of us who fell about laughing at his rock star pose and the faces he pulled as he strummed along... He went from being a little boy to a scary rock-star in moments!
Aid agency issues call to action on International Women’s Day
NEW YORK (March 7, 2011)—Concern* Worldwide, the international humanitarian organization, marks International Women’s Day March 8 with call to action for international governments, civil society and men and women everywhere to addressgender inequality and increase the opportunities of girls and women significantly.
Analysis (Global Hunger Index, “The Challenge of Hunger: Focus on the Financial Crisis & Gender Equality,” 2009) by Concern and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)suggests that improving girls ‘and women’s educational attainment, economic participation, health status and representation and influence at a political level will actually reduce hunger, showing that investments in greater equality have multiple indirect benefits.
Yet, according to the latest UN estimates, 69 million children worldwide are not enrolled primary school and 54 percent of these are girls. Girls are also more likely than boys to stop attending school before they complete primary education and have a significantly smaller chance of progressing to secondary school in many parts of the world because of poverty, attitudes and beliefs about the status of girls relative to boys, abuse in schools and discrimination.
Fragrances, enzymes and optical brighteners in many common household laundry products can irritate sensitive skin. Itchiness, redness and eczema can be triggered when residues of laundry detergents are transferred from clothing onto the skin. Suffers can struggle to find an alternative laundry product that doesn’t contain ingredients that cause irritation, but luckily a traditional laundry product made from pure soap can help to alleviate some of the symptoms of sensitive skin.
‘Ideal Mum of the Year’ returns for the 2011 Ideal Home Show
-Shower your Mum with luxury gifts from Elemis and the Hilton Kensington-
Why wait until Mother’s Day to say thank you when you can spoil her now?
Do you know a Mum who always defies the odds and overcomes any task to look after her family? If so then we want to hear from you.
Back for 2011, the Ideal Home Show, running 11th – 27th March in London’s Earls Court, is searching for fabulous women to take part in the‘Ideal Mum of the Year competition’. The competition celebrates hardworking modern day mums, and this year’s search aims to seek out those extraordinary super-women who manage to juggle work, life and parenting in order to satisfy their families’ needs.
The competition offers families around the country a chance to say thank you to the most important lady in their life and to give them a well-earned break with gifts from luxury brand, Elemis, the Hilton Kensington and Windle & Moodie salon.
This can be your own Mum, or an Auntie, Friend or Grandma that you feel deserves the title of ‘Ideal Mum of the Year 2011.’
London, For Immediate Release: Nosy Crow, a new children’s book and app publisher in London, has launched a highly innovative app for iPad™, The Three Little Pigs. This is the first in a series of 3-D Fairy Tale apps from Nosy Crow for children ages 4 and up. It will be available on the App Store starting February 17, 2011.
The Three Little Pigs app takes full advantage of the iPad’s technical capabilities to create a unique reading experience. It features sophisticated animation, original interactive music, child narrators and hundreds of interactive touch points. Children tap the screen to make the pigs talk, spin into the air and build their homes of straw, sticks and bricks. They use the microphone to help the wolf blow down the houses. What’s more, as children tilt the iPad, the screen perspective changes to reveal hidden details and more of the scene.
“We aren’t squashing books that already exist onto tablets,” says Kate Wilson, Managing Director of Nosy Crow. “As publishers with decades of storytelling experience, we’ve created a new way for children to learn to explore and read stories. The Three Little Pigs app is fun, surprising, educational and worth reading again and again.”
FOLLOW IDEAL STANDARD’S SIMPLE AND EASY TIPS TO GET YOUR BATHROOM READY FOR THOSE CHRISTMAS GUESTS
Dublin, 10th December 2010: ‘Tis the season to throw open your doors and invite relatives, in-laws, friends and neighbours into your home, all in the name of Yuletide spirit. While most hosts and hostesses are busy co-ordinating fairy lights, bobbles, tinsel and table settings, many forget one of the most visited rooms in the house is the bathroom. And while it’s not a room that traditionally lends itself to festive cheer, it is the one room where guests have time to mull over your decorating choices!
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