by LittleActivePeople | Mar 14, 2019 | Screentime Advice
For those Baby Boomers (and some millennials), who remember life without 24/7 technology, life is much different now! Generation Z haven’t needed to master the art of conversation or being comfortable with their brains unstimulated. With some many devices and...
by LittleActivePeople | Mar 7, 2019 | Emotional Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing
Kate Cohen is the owner of Sleep Time Baby. She is a certified sleep consultant and member of the Association of Professional Sleep Consultants and gives us the lowdown on how to help your children sleep better. How long you have been doing Sleep Time Baby for...
by LittleActivePeople | Mar 6, 2019 | Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas, Physical Wellbeing, Screentime Advice
Sleep becomes a big part of your life when you are a parent. Or rather trying to get your children to sleep (and stay asleep) becomes a big part of your life. It has such an impact on their behaviour, health and ability to learn that it’s really important that we help...
by LittleActivePeople | Feb 14, 2019 | Active Minds, Kids Activity Ideas
With many of us homeschooling our children, take a read through our guest blog by Little Writing Company for 5 fun free games to play that will help improve your child’s spelling this summer! Hundreds of years ago there were no rules about how things were spelt...
by LittleActivePeople | Feb 14, 2019 | Active Minds, Kids Activity Ideas
Being able to sew is a valuable life skill and developing it at a young age also has the benefit of improving their fine motor skills. Take a read through our guest blog ‘Part of the Fabric of Life’ by Miss Shelly Designs to help you to teach your child...
by LittleActivePeople | Feb 14, 2019 | Emotional Wellbeing, Kids Activity Ideas
by travelswithmum I have an anxious kid who doesn’t like to fly. He has always had anxiety to varying levels in varying situations but it wasn’t until recently he revealed to me that he get very anxious about flying. My immediate reaction was to say ” No you don’t,...
by LittleActivePeople | Feb 12, 2019 | Emotional Wellbeing
We first heard the term Positive Psychology a few months ago and were intrigued as to how it could help the wellbeing of both ourselves and our children! We started to read more about it and decided that we’d use it as the basis of our ‘happiness is’ campaign. If...
by LittleActivePeople | Jan 30, 2019 | Screentime Advice
Do you find you are battling with your older children to agree on Screentime limits? Ofcom’s national, quantitative research finds that older children are finding it harder to control their screen time than they were last year. The proportion of 12-15s who agreed they...
by LittleActivePeople | Jan 30, 2019 | Screentime Advice
Over the past few years, we have been increasingly aware of the impact that screentime has on our children and part of that has driven our ethos behind Little Active People. But we are mums too and know it’s hard to get the right balance! Even harder when our husbands...
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...