Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
These days, coding is an essential skill and it is especially important for our future children of the world as technology now dominates a huge amount of different industries. Besides that, learning to code also teaches you how to solve problems and think logically in many creative ways.
I am sure every parent wants to buy things that are safe for their children to use. The same goes for us. So I was delighted to learn that PuroQuiet headphones help protect children from hearing loss. They were developed by a father who realised his 10-year-old daughter had sustained Noise-Induced Hearing Loss from listening to music too loud, for too long. He found that there was no one addressing this issue adequately, so his family set about designing and developing the highest-quality, studio-grade, volume limiting to 85 decibels children’s headphone whilst still at an affordable price. Best of all, it can be used wirelessly via Bluetooth.
This Christmas season, why not get an affordable and decent dash cam for your loved one? A good quality dash cam, like Nextbase, not only offers you peace of mind when out and about on our ever increasingly busy roads, it can also provide you independent evidence if you ever have an accident, help lower insurance premiums and speed up claims!
All I want for Christmas is a Gaming Headset! This is what I have been hearing whenever I ask Mr K for his Christmas list. He is, just like many youngsters, very much into his online gaming and watching his favourite YouTubers. Currently, he is into one of the most successful online games in Fortnite and wanting a gaming headset so that he can communicate with his online friends.
Botley is a dynamic coding robot that introduces children to the very basic form of coding and programming. This coding robot is from Learning Resource, a company who believe in creating a quality and fun product for children! Botley The Coding Robot is suitable for aged five to nine years old. This well-built inspirational robot is much-loved in this household! It is easy to operate and fun to play with!
MIND Designer is an innovative intelligent robot that introduces children to simple coding and design. It guides your children through the process of learning mathematics, arithmetic and geometry. This is a great first start up robot for young children aged seven onwards. What I like about this set is that the robot is ready to play straight out of the box.
Love a massager that travel with you everywhere you go? Then you must give Mynt cordless pillow massager a try! This portable and iF Design award winning massager is a great companion that offers you up to two hours of power so you can unwind anytime, anywhere.
This Russell Hobbs Sabre cordless handheld stick vacuum is powered by a Lithium-Ion battery that can provide up to 25 minutes of continuous run time. It comes with a smart looking white LED light to light up dark places and a handy LED light that indicates how much power is left.
Kurio Tab Connect is a premium tablet using an Android OS platform (6.0 Marshmallow) for children. It has a 16 GB internal memory with Quadcore processor for quick web-surfing, quicker photo and video processing, music streaming and faster downloads! It is expandable up to 32 GB using with a microSD card to save files, such as videos, music and photos from the device to the card or used as internal storage that allows you to install apps and save data to it.
Kurio Smart 2 in 1 is a premium tablet using an Android 8.1 (Go edition) for children to do homework and play. It has a 16 GB internal memory with Quadcore processor for quick web-surfing, quicker photo and video processing, music streaming and faster downloads! It is expandable up to 128 GB using with a microSD card to save files, such as videos, music and photos from the device to the card or used as internal storage that allows you to install apps and save data to it.
As winter draws in, a warm, delicious healthy soup is what you need to keep yourself warm! I am so thrilled to receive this Morphy Richards Soup Maker from AO.com for review as I have been looking for a good soup maker.
This Morphy Richards soup maker has a 1.6 litre capacity and can make up to 4 portions in one go, which is ideal for us, although Ms C doesn’t like soup as much as the rest of us. So we’ve got slightly bigger portions!
Children can now master the thrill of the ride with this brand new 12 Volt Nighthawk by Rollplay with its leading-edge design. This low-riding, high-powered ride-on goes up to a max speed of 6 miles per hour (11 km/h) and is great fun! It is suitable for aged six and above and for a maximum weight of 50 kg.
This ride-on is shaped like the body of a stingray with beautiful curves all around. It is very well built and there are chunky handlebars on the side to enable the child to remain secure. I love that the ride-on comes as a whole unit and there is nothing to assemble apart from inserting the rear safety flag into the flagpole hole at the back of the ride-on. The flag allows you to keep an eye on riders if they go behind obstacles. Mr K is a slightly bigger frame and prefers not to put the flag in. As for Ms C, it is perfectly fine for her!
Clementoni RoboMaker Pro is a robot making kit that introduces you to robotics and coding. It consists of four different types of play sections. First, you learn how to build five different types of intelligent robots with full instructions through their free app and then learn how to program them through 10 guided activities. You then create and program your own robots and bring the incredibly intelligent robot to life. This is suitable for aged 10 and above.
Nintendo has just launched their third kit – Toy-Con Vehicle Kit in its Labo series of cardboard constructions for Switch, which is now available to buy from good retailers and online. This kit contains materials to build a variety of customisable cardboard creations including a Car, a Submarine, a Plane, a Pedal, two Keys and Spray Can.
This is another innovative kit cleverly designed to educate while entertaining the children with fun activities/games. They also improve children’s knowledge and understanding of a wide range of topics like STEM. By assembling sheets of cardboard into a variety of shapes called Toy-Con, and combining them with the Nintendo Switch console you can bring them to life!
After 22 years since its first launch, Nokia has again surprised us with this retro classic 8110 “banana phone” rebooted into a feature phone with 4G. This is not the exact replica of this classic phone, but it certainly feels like one.
Since an early age, I have always been in favour of sliding phones as I think they look smart and stylish. Just imagine by only using one hand to slide, you are always ready to answer or make a call in style. This is why I am so thrilled to get this Nokia 8110 4G black from AO for review. The other option was to have the striking yellow banana phone which is a definite ‘no’ from me! I do not want to draw unnecessary attention to myself from passers-by!
