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Keep Your Cool

#Howto To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, you’ll be  a Cool Mom, my friend.  Whether you’ve got brawling, bickering siblings or your toddler’s having one of those full-on ...

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First Day Of School

#Howto The first day of school can be a nightmare. Prepare yourself for tearful breakdowns at the school gates, packed lunch rivalry, bitchy comments about clothing choices and panic over being summoned to meet the teacher…and that’s just the parents. ...

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The ‘Go Extreme’ Parenting

#Howto Of course we all want to protect our kids. Protect them from grazed knees, broken bones, playground bullies, bad exam results, broken hearts and bad dreams. But we can’t bind them in bubble wrap and hope that the Big Bad World won’t get them. Th ...

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Don’t be your daughter’s best friend 

#Howto Yep, you read that right, we’re not going to give you the scoop on everything you can do to buddy up with your offspring. As tight as that mother-daughter bond may quite rightly be, do you really want to declare yourselves BFFs? Our kids nee ...