by LittleActivePeople | Apr 22, 2021 | Active Bodies, Active Minds, Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas, Physical Wellbeing
May is National Walking Month and over the past year, it’s the one daily thing that’s really helped our mood and helped balance out screen time! It has so many positive physical and mental health benefits and has been a great family activity to all do...
by LittleActivePeople | Apr 21, 2021 | Active Bodies, Active Minds, Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas, Physical Wellbeing
We at Little Active People are all about getting children active; both mentally and physically by helping to balance screen time. Neither Jemma or I are particularly green fingered but we have so many happy memories of being in the garden as children. Our parents are...
by LittleActivePeople | Apr 20, 2021 | Active Bodies, Physical Wellbeing
The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) currently runs a national campaign around skin cancer called Sun Awareness, which includes national Sun Awareness Week in May 3rd-9th 2021. Just a few serious sunburns can increase your child’s risk of skin cancer...
by LittleActivePeople | Sep 17, 2020 | Active Bodies, Emotional Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing
Jemma’s crew have had the email to say that their swimming lessons are due to start in just over a week. As with anything nowadays, there are a whole lotta rules and changes to how the lessons will be run to help reduce the risk of Covid spreading. Samuel...
by LittleActivePeople | Nov 13, 2018 | Screentime Advice
How screen time has changed! If you’re like us, we grew up in a world where children’s TV was only available for a few hours a day and to talk to our friends we had to go stand in the hallway and use a telephone! How times have changed – we are in a new...
by LittleActivePeople | Oct 15, 2020 | Active Minds, Kids Activity Ideas
This year National Baking Week falls between the 14th and 20th October. Pyrex founded National Baking Week in 2007, with the aim of encouraging people of all abilities to bake at home. Gill is not a natural baker (her sister got that skill!) so we thought it ironic...
by LittleActivePeople | Aug 17, 2020 | Active Minds, Kids Activity Ideas
Here are a number of different ideas for a fun, and even educational, staycation that might even be better than an actual vacation. Most importantly, these staycation activities will keep your kids away from their screens and avoid the dreaded “I’m bored!” World...
by LittleActivePeople | Apr 28, 2020 | Active Bodies, Active Minds, Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas, Physical Wellbeing
During the first few weeks of lockdown, without realising it, I’d really been living a sedentary life. No walking to school, sat helping the girls with their school work and then whilst they went out to play, I used it as an opportunity to work, so sat down...
by LittleActivePeople | Apr 5, 2020 | Active Bodies, Active Minds, Kids Activity Ideas
We at Little Active People are all about getting children active; both mentally and physically by helping to balance screen time. During this uncertain time when schools have closed and lots of families are in lockdown and isolation, many of you have told us, like us,...
by LittleActivePeople | Mar 25, 2020 | Active Bodies, Active Minds, Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas, Physical Wellbeing
We at Little Active People are all about getting children active; both mentally and physically by helping to balance screen time. Neither Jemma or I are particularly green fingered but we have so many happy memories of being in the garden as children. Our parents are...
by LittleActivePeople | Mar 14, 2020 | Active Bodies, Active Minds, Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas, Physical Wellbeing, Screentime Advice
Conversation helps children express their thoughts, get what they need, resolve conflicts, ask for help, and learn from adults and from one another but talking to your child about how they’re feeling can be hard. Many conversation starters with your children just...
