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Who is the Smartest Woman You know?
A few years ago there was a pretty fab campaign for Clinique Smart Custom Serum. It Starred one of my fave Beauty experts Caroline Hirons (whom I discovered on Twitter, and who is as funny as she is smart), and it celebrated smart women and their qualities. For Caroline Hirons, the smartest woman she knows happens to be her mom, something I can totally relate to. If you have read the Sam Haskell memoir ‘Promises I Made My Mother’ you will probably find yourself agreeing that although you meet many people in the course of your life, it is your Mother you still turn to in times of need, in…
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5 Ways to Help Save Money for Life
Have you ever wondered what you would do if an emergency cropped up? Life is full of uncertainty and there are a wide range of things that can go wrong. If you aren’t financially prepared, it could make the situation a lot worse. Despite the fact it could really help, the majority of Americans never save for an emergency fund. There are plenty of ways to save money on things like your shopping, your bills and any other service you purchase online. You can look for discount codes from sites like dealsdaddy and dealsqueen in order to get the bet possible discounts and find out all the most pertinent offers.…
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Travelling With Children: Tips and Tricks
Going abroad on holiday is often an event that is looked forward to for the entire year. Jetting off to far warmer, sunnier climes is a real treat, and pretty easy to do if you’re a young couple with a lot of free time and disposable income. Once you become a parent however, things get a little more difficult. Even if you can rustle up enough dough to go away, travelling with the kids can be a real headache, fraught with all manner of difficulties. For single parents, this can be even more difficult due to having to handle all the responsibilities by yourself. With this in mind, we thought…
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How To Help Kids Manage Anger
Anger is a normal reaction when things are not fair or right. It can be a very useful emotion under certain circumstances such as in problem-solving and in improving yourself. However, it is different for our kids when they experience anger. Hence, it is important that at this early age, we can help them identify what kind of feeling they’re experiencing so that they know how to deal with them in the future. In this piece, we listed some ways how you can help manage your kids with their anger and deal with rage issues. Help Them Develop Emotional Vocabulary Emotional vocabulary is an important tool for your kids while…
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Saving for Joe’s future
I sometimes find it hard to remember the days ‘BJ’, that is, before Joe. But one thing I do remember clearly is just how much disposable income we had, money to spend on frivolities like clothes and make-up, eating out, excessive amounts of shopping that we didn’t need, and holidays. These days it seems that every penny is accounted for and earmarked and most of it seems to be earmarked for Joe. Earmarked for Joe? Yes, it has to be said, it costs a fortune being a mom to a football mad boy. Each month we spend around £100 on his football training and subs. He has a season ticket…
