Parenting

Back to School Tips

In preparation for your little (and not so little) members of the family heading back to school (or perhaps starting school for the first time), the magazine.co.uk team have offered their top Back to School tips for handling the transition from summer to September with ease.Back to School Continue reading

Top UK Mummy Bloggers 2016

As the summer holidays draw to a close, we're celebrating the best Mummy, parenting and family blogs of 2016. At magazine.co.uk, we're big fans of Mummy bloggers and are lucky to count a fair few in our blogger network. Here are the top UK mummy bloggers of 2016; the cream of the crop.

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The importance of story time

Chantelle from Mama Mummy Mum explains how valuable story time is for children, and how her recent subscription to Storytime magazine has fared in her household…

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Why National Geographic Kids is perfect for children

Rebecca Smith from Futures explains why National Geographic Kids is perfect for inquisitive young minds... 

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Review of Adventure Time magazine

Parent blogger Jenny Leonard of The Brick Castle tells us why Adventure Time magazine is fantastic fun for both youngsters and older readers…

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How to get your kids to bed on time

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Bed time can be the bane of parents’ lives. Dragging overstimulated kids up the stairs, kicking and screaming, knowing that simply putting them in bed is never going to get them to sleep.

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How does your upbringing affect your own parenting?

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we look at how our upbringing affects our own parenting decisions.

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Have comics really evolved?

Blogger network member Elaine, from the blog Fun as a Gran reminisces about her youth and how comics such as The Beano played a part in her family’s life, including that of her grandsons’.

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Match! magazine – the perfect read for young football fans

Having two young football fanatics in the house, Jo from My Monkeys Don’t Sit Still decided to treat them to a subscription to Match! magazine. Now her boys can keep up-to-date with the latest football news and stick pictures and posters of their favourite football players and teams up on their walls!

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