Kids health

Felicity from The Baby Vine shares some messy play ideas and the benefits of messy play for kids.   Getting into messy play as a mum was difficult for me. Let’s face it, kids are messy [...]

Dads often get praised for regular parenting (just a bit patronising!) or they get portrayed as goofy and rather unhelpful – think Peppa’s Daddy Pig!   So how can we promote [...]

Thank you to T21 mum Vikki Tavelli for sharing her story and dispelling some of the myths about Down Syndrome.   What is it like to live with a child with Down syndrome? Yesterday I read a [...]

A food preservative is a substance added to foods to make them last longer; to “preserve” them. Preservatives are added to foods that go bad quickly and have found themselves in all [...]

Claudia Harley, the creator of Wellfulness, shares her tips on using cooking as a mindfulness activity with kids, as well as one of her favourite recipes – banana oat biscuits.   [...]

Finding reliable yet holistic health information is hard. If you’re in any online ‘mum forums’ you will often see comments along the lines of ‘do your own research’ [...]

Can Easter chocolate be healthy? The tradition of giving chocolate eggs at Easter stems back to the 19th Century in France and Germany. The chocolate eggs were bitter and hard. In time, [...]

Nutrition advice is everywhere! And each expert and association tries to lead you in their direction because they know best and their advice is going to help you.  Right? Well, maybe… Everyone [...]

Dr Edna Giuntini is a chiropractor with 20 years experience and has completed postgraduate studies in paediatric development, chiropractic for babies, brain development and pregnancy. I [...]

This is a guest post by Co-founder of The Clean Collective, Charlie Thompson. One of the scariest truths of our generation is our 20th century-born love affair with plastic. We’ve become so [...]