This post about creating your own DIY family movie night at home contains affiliate links. Read more here. While looking for Christmas gift ideas for the kids to share, my partner came up with the idea of creating a DIY home cinema for holding family movie nights at home. Obviously we now need to get them something else because we
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Disclaimer: We received Bluey the Videogame on the PS4 to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links, see more information here. I think we can all agree that Bluey is bloody fantastic. Even my kids – long past the CBeebies world, but sharing a TV with a 4 year old at the weekend
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Disclaimer: This gift guide for eight year old girls contains items I was sent free of charge for inclusion, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links, see more information here. You can enter the giveaways at the bottom of this post. It’s that time of year again! Well actually, it’s my daughter’s 8th birthday, and that means my
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This post How to prepare for going back to primary school: An essentials list was written in collaboration with Very.co.uk. It may contain affiliate links. The start of every new school year is a particularly traumatic time in the life of a parent. No matter how prepared you think your kids are are for going back to primary school, they
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This post was written in collaboration with Books2Door but words and pictures are my own. Books2Door sell a huge variety of books for all ages, most of which with massive savings. We recently reviewed some of their collections for kids here; if it’s box-sets for summer you’re after to keep the kids busy, or perhaps to take on holiday, then I’d recommend
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Disclaimer: We were sent these Start-Rite: ‘Samba’ girls & ‘Motivate’ boys school shoes to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. You might think that, what with the end of term only just approaching, it’s a little early to start preparing for back to school. However, having experienced school shoe shopping with one week to go until
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This post was written in collaboration with Books2Door but words and pictures are my own. A fact that I’ve learned recently is that having books in the house is one of the single biggest indicators of a child’s future success, even taking everything else into account. Encouraging children to read is a wonderful way to help them develop their language
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This post was written in collaboration with Wicked Uncle but the words, pictures and opinions are all mine. The very first review that I did on this website – back when it was barely six months old – was of the toy website Wicked Uncle. You can still read the old post here and ‘ahhhh didn’t they look young‘ at
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Disclaimer: We were sent this Yoto Mini screen free audio player to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links, see more information here. GET 5% OFF A YOTO PLAYER OR YOTO MINI USING THE DISCOUNT CODE AFF-WHINGE5 HERE We have had our standard Yoto Player for many years now and it is still used
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Disclaimer: We downloaded the PS4 game DC’s Justice League: Cosmic Chaos to review free of charge, but words and pictures are mine. This post contains affiliate links, see more information here. We’ve been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of a PlayStation 4 from a friend and my kids are absolutely delighted. In terms of games, we don’t have
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