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Star Wars Identities Exhibition Review

1 January, 2017 by farhan Leave a Comment

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So I was lucky enough to be able to go to the Star Wars Identities exhibition in the London O2 arena during the Christmas holidays.  I didn’t really know too much about it, obviously I expected Star Wars related exhibits (I wasn’t disappointed in that), but in equal meaure the exhibition was about the concept […]

Filed Under: Kid's Days Out Tagged With: days out, museums, quality time

Dreamworks Trolls Movie Review

16 October, 2016 by farhan 1 Comment

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Hi everyone, Here is my Dreamworks Trolls – movie review. Having literally just gotten back from seeing Dreamworks Trolls at the cinema, I was actually very impressed with this movie. First watch my YouTube movie review. Admittedly my expectations weren’t particularly high going into it and I didn’t know much about it, I was genuinely […]

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Hilton Dalaman – Holiday review

10 June, 2016 by farhan 2 Comments

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Hey everyone, so here is a full and complete review of the Hilton Dalaman hotel and resort, which I visited just last week.   Here’s a video review of the hotel where I take you around the hotel and show  you everything you need to know about the Hilton Dalaman.  Hilton Dalaman – First Impressions So […]

Filed Under: Kid's Days Out Tagged With: cherished moments, holidays, parenting, quality time, work life balance

How to develop resilience

26 December, 2015 by farhan 1 Comment

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Hi everyone, recently I was lucky enough to attend a talk by @davidsjtait (https://twitter.com/DavidSJTait) on how to develop reslience, I started to skethcnote the talk out, it was so insightful that I decided to make a video on the key points on how to develop resilience – let’s take a look at it and then […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: balance, education, frustration, parenting

kids days out – Bocketts Farm

9 August, 2015 by farhan Leave a Comment

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Farms have really moved on a lot from the ones I used to visit on my school trips, those were proper farms, you got right close up to the animals and apart from a ride in a tractor there was little in the way of a play area. First of all – is it a […]

Filed Under: Kid's Days Out Tagged With: cherished moments, days out

how to set a Raspberry Pi 2 up in five minutes – parent guide

26 April, 2015 by farhan Leave a Comment

The Raspberry Pi 2 - a parent's guide

Hi everyone, in this blog post I’ll show you how you can set up a Raspberry Pi 2 from box to boot up in under 5 mins. I bought myself a Raspberry Pi 2 the other week having done a lot of research on it, I picked up this Raspberry Pi 2 starter kit up […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: education, parenting, raspberry pi

Art of the brick – the lego exhibition

16 December, 2014 by farhan

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Yay, a Lego exhibition, always makes everyone excited, but what are you expecting from the Art of the Brick? Lots of cool Lego sculptures – check The kids are going to have a great time gawping at the life size Lego sculptures – check Probably not going to be anything to interest me after the […]

Filed Under: Kid's Days Out Tagged With: aggressive behaviour, children's behaviour, days out, quality time, relationships

computer programming for kids

7 September, 2014 by farhan Leave a Comment

how to teach your chldren to prgramme computers

Hi guys, I’m very happy to have a guest blogger Andrew Mills, posting about a super way to teach computer programming for kids, Andrew’s going to talk about why it’s important for children to be able to code and is going to introduce a very clever and fun way to teach children about coding.  You […]

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why learn Wing Chun

12 August, 2014 by farhan Leave a Comment

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Why learn Wing Chun?  After all there are so many different martial arts out there, why should you choose to learn Wing Chun and what can Wing Chun teach your child? This week I was really honoured to be able to interview Sifu Jude Hudson of Kid’s Wing Chun Academey, I knew that there were […]

Filed Under: children's behaviour Tagged With: aggression, aggressive behavior, aggressive behaviour, balance, children's behaviour, relationships

Mummy Diaries – the Pregnancy book interview

24 March, 2014 by farhan 1 Comment

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Hi everyone, I’m really pleased to say that I was joined by Lousie Hamilton, author of Mummy Diaries – Pregnancy Stumbling into the Unknown.  In our interview we talk about her pregnancy diary and how her book is quite different to many of the other pregnancy books out there.   Watch my interview here with […]

Filed Under: parenting interviews Tagged With: balance, parenting, writing skills

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