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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

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

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

How to be wise

18 November, 2013 by farhan 1 Comment

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I found this great video on YouTube on how to be wise.  It goes through the accepted definition of being wise and whether it’s still appropriate in today’s world.  What I found most interesting in this where the speaker Simon Cohen talks about children and how we misintrept thier behaviour (13 mins).  I agree with […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: children's behaviour, learning, parenting, thinking

How much TV should I let my child watch?

12 August, 2013 by farhan 2 Comments

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‘Don’t let you children watch TV it will pollute their minds!’  Well there are truths, lies and partial truths. I think that this is a partial truth, I would substitute certain channels in here rather than the concept of TV as a whole. When I had one child I would put the TV on in […]

Filed Under: children's behaviour Tagged With: balance, children's behaviour, education, letting children watch TV, not spending time with children, parenting, relationships, second child, time management, TV, watching TV, work life balance

The perils of contracting

7 August, 2013 by farhan Leave a Comment

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Much like final salary pensions, permanent jobs are becoming a thing of the past.  Nowadays many companies are switching from hiring staff positions to hiring contractors.  Why are they doing this?  Well for one even though a contractor should come in on a higher day rate than a staff position, the company does not have […]

Filed Under: job hunting Tagged With: contracting, freelance, FTE, job hunting, parenting, permanent jobs, routines, working away

Kerbing Aggressive Behaviour

14 July, 2013 by farhan Leave a Comment

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You are probably expecting this blog post to be about how to kerb your child’s aggressive behaviour, in truth when I originally thought of this post I too was thinking that, but I think aggressive behaviour is a two way process and as such we should seek to first kerb any aggressive behaviour we ourselves […]

Filed Under: children's behaviour Tagged With: aggression, aggressive behavior, aggressive behaviour, frustration, parenting

My child’s first ever sports day

12 July, 2013 by farhan Leave a Comment

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Last week was my older boy’s first sports day.  It was in fact the first sports day that I’ve attended since I actually took part in one.  Parenting as we all know is a tough all consuming business, amongst all the hard work that goes into it are golden nuggets of sweet moments, going to […]

Filed Under: work life balance Tagged With: balance, cherished moments, contracting, day rate, getting paid, not spending time with children, parenting, quality time, salary, sports day

Teaching your kids to read and write when you are not there

11 July, 2013 by farhan 1 Comment

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If you are working long hours or are away a lot on business how can you still teach young children how to read and write and to count?  Well teaching them to write will be a challenge, but teaching kids to read and counting is relatively easy to teach while you are away. Whether you […]

Filed Under: learning resources Tagged With: alphabet, education, letters, parenting, reading skils, teaching, working, working parent, writing skills


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