Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
This coming Tuesday 24th May 2016 celebrates National Bedwetting Day. This is to raise awareness for everyone that bedwetting is nobody’s fault, it can and it should be treated. LloydsPharmacy have put up a bedwetting post on their website to explain to parents that they can talk about the subject to support their children and each other.
This is a very easy craft that we made during the Easter holiday break. Both of my children love fishes and so we decided to make this fish mobile to hang it in our conservatory. We spent at least 20 minutes to colour all the fishes and took me around 10 minutes to thread them into this simple yet beautiful fish mobile.
The Little Nut Tree is a book written and illustrated by Sally Gardner. This Blue Early Readers book is perfect for sharing and reading together. It was released on 2 January 2014 and published by Orion Publishing.
The book is paperback containing about 64 pages. The font is a good reading size, and it has simple words and is easy to read by school children. Each page contains a fair amount of sentences and a lot of great illustrations with charming soft watercolours.
Alph and Betty’s Topsy Turvy World is the first in a series of motion adventure books for iPad from Stephen Cavalier, the author of The World History of Animation. Alph and Betty was created by Electric Circus, an award winning team of writers, animators, artists, actors and programmers with experience ranging from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Beano, award winning online and console games and Doctor Who.
Eight days until Christmas! Have you bought your presents? If you need some last minutes inspiration ideas for Christmas stockings, take a look at these wide range of super collectible Gacha range of pocket money toys from TOMY. The range of miniature toys and accessories are perfect for school bags, keys, the playground etc. TOMY’s expanded Gacha licensed collection includes Hello Kitty, Nintendo, Disney, Sega and more, and 2013 welcomes new characters to the offering from Monsters University, Planes from Disney and sensational app characters from Where’s my Water. Marvel will also have a strong presence with Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and danglers from Littlest Pet Shop.
This Christmas holiday period, Vertbaudet has created a new Christmas activities page to keep children busy in the run up to Christmas. There are 10 different activities – if you run out of ideas, why not have a look at their activities page and get inspired. Create and pin it on Pinterest. Then maybe they could ‘show and tell’ it to their class.
Each of the activities comes as a PDF file that are straightforward to print out. There is an Advent Calendar, Paper Garland, Paper Pompoms, Letters to Santa, Colouring Pictures, Christmas Gift Tags, Woollen Pompoms, Bake Some Biscuits, Christmas Carol and Paper Stars.
It was another gloomy Saturday so we decided to stay at home to do art and craft and baking with the kids. It’s always a great way of spending family time together. At times, it can be quite stressful for me preparing the items before both children start pestering me. So I brought out all the stuff we needed the night before.
We started off making Christmas cards for our relatives in Singapore using a stencil to draw and write on the card. I still remember when I was very young we used to own a few huge stencils from Alphabet to Numbers. We used those with our school projects, posters and school bag. Now there are so many different types of stencils from letter stencils to cake stencils. After the kids finished using the stencils, they randomly pasted foam shapes, coloured paper and flowers on the Christmas card ready to send off to Singapore!
Mr K is at the age of being inquisitive about the workings of the world and wants to learn more about nature and wildlife. Yesterday, we went to Paradise Wild Park and he got so excited to meet the meerkats and have breakfast with the tigers!
The National Geographic Kids Magazine is everything an inquisitive young mind needs. Their mission is to get kids excited about their world. Inside this magazine, there are over 60 pages of interesting facts, pictures and information about the latest news about wildlife, games and puzzles. They also come with a poster, toy and fact cards in this November issue. Every issue will have different items in it.
Moving house can mean turmoil for every member of the family. The decision to move house is made largely by the adults, who then tend to focus on the practical aspects of it. The situation can be more stressful if there are children in the family, especially very small children. For them, it is a matter of a leaving their world behind. So, what must one do in order to make the transition as smooth and as close to natural as possible for the entire family?
As an ex-nurse, I am always quite careful what I give my children and do read the label before I buy. When choosing drinks for my children’s packed lunch, the ingredients are always of concern – are they full of sugars, sweeteners, artificial colours, flavours or preservatives?
There is one thing which has always made me wonder, why no one, even my mum, has ever told me why exactly children cry! This is not something that you can learn from a book but from the little person him/herself. It took me 4 years before I really understood why my son cried in all scenarios as he was then old enough to tell me how he felt. At times I was totally bemused by their behaviour.
Yesterday, we went out to Telford shopping mall and saw there was a free rock climbing activities. Mr K loves rock climbing and always wants to have a go. He loves to pretend he is a Spider Man. Luckily, there was not much of a queue and he started with the mini rock wall. Ms C was sitting in her pushchair and refused to join in but after much persuasion from Mr C, she went for it. I was shocked that she agreed to do it.
I had mentioned before that when I first came to England in 2002, my English ex-colleague introduced me to Walkers crisps and I never looked back. It is one of the best crisps I have ever had. It’s a scrumptiously thin crispy crisp. It makes my mouth water whenever I see someone eating it. Every crisp is always so well-seasoned and tasty.
We have been super active this Summer school holiday. Not only have we been out and about to many fantastic places, we have also come up with activities to do at home including baking! Both my children love to help and bake so it is great spending time with them teaching them a life skill.
Today, our relatives came and Mr K offered to bake a cake for our guests. His lovely aunty helped him along. I won’t bore you with how we bake the cake. It is quite easy to get recipes or pre-mix if you don’t fancy buying your own ingredients. Do take a look at Pyrex Moist Apple Cake for an example of a recipe. The Brick Castle baked this and her cake looks so delicious!
Are your children bored of the same design on their shoes? Or do you have a child who simply loves to draw? Now Skribbies Shoes enable children to draw and stick stickers on them! They are a new and excellent product founded by young entrepreneur Jennifer Duthie. She was inspired by the fabric paints of the 90s and wanted to develop a product for kids that was more versatile and would allow kids to keep on customising.
