Competition: Bullying – A Parents' Guide

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As a teacher, I try to be vigilant for any tell-tale signs of bullying in school. Nowadays we have training on how to handle any situations that arise, and have a ledger to record any offenses. Bullying is taken very seriously in schools nowadays with whole lessons given over to it and assemblies regularly centred around why it's not ok. The difficulty arises when a child says something once as a mean, flippant comment, and a child grasps the 'B' word out of the air. Teaching children why bullying is wrong also involves teaching them what it is.

Bullying is intentional, directed and repeated behaviour. It is not ok!

Obviously for teachers, we get training on how to handle it and have a wealth of tools and procedures at our disposal to help our pupils. But for parents, it can be just as desperate time as for their children. They can feel just as trapped and helpless.

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Competition: Fatherhood (The Essential Guide)

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A book about being a dad? Well, seeing as though I'm a mum, I've drafted in help.

"When the Boy's Mummy was expecting the Boy, my first stop in any bookshop was the parenting section. Row after row of books about how to be an ideal mother, what mothers should be doing, the truth about motherhood and then squeezed into the end… a couple of books on what being a father is like.

Invariably, those books would also be of the humourous type, full of amusing stories. That's all well and good, but often new dads (and potential dads) do also need more practical advice: how to support the new mother, what your employment and leave rights are, even details on claiming tax credits.

It's into that niche that Tim Atkinson's "Fatherhood: The Essential Guide" fits. The book is broken up into eight chapters that cover individual stages from planning a family up to the baby's third year, including the initial important bits like how to change a nappy (Mrs. TheBoyandMe didn't have the willpower to show me for two weeks which meant she did every change) and registering the birth (or you incur a fine!). There is a wealth of other important practical information on financial help and legal entitlements.

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Competition: NIP+FAB Sheer Make-up Fix

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I will not leave the house without my make-up on. There are only two occasions when I have gone anywhere public in the past five years without my foundation, mascara and a smear of lipstick on (at the minimum). One was when I fell down the stairs a week after having The Boy and ripped my episiotomy stitches out (oh, did you wince?), the second was when an unconscious The Boy was blue-lighted into hospital at 1am.

I am pale, and therefore various scars from teenage acne, post-partum acne and chickenpox when I was 19, are quite visible. I'm also knackered all the time and have shadows that even the darkest of alleys would be proud of. A light foundation with translucent powder and a brushing of bronzer is always the magic potion for making me look halfway alive.

But don't you just hate it when you start to look shiny after an hour, or when the foundation seems to just disappear from your face?

NIP+FAB has come to the rescue of beauty addicts who cannot get enough of their ‘best selling’, wonder treatments with the launch of yet another ‘hero product’….the NIP + FAB Sheer Makeup Fix.

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Peppa Pig: International Day

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Who doesn't know and love Peppa Pig? The loveable, cheeky piggy is The Boy's firm favourite, meaning that we've been to Peppa Pig World twice! Watching Peppa and George is the guaranteed way to get him to do anything. He's so obsessed that he now calls himself George Pig, Mr. TheBoyandMe is Daddy Pig and I am Mummy Pig.

We've recently been sent Peppa's new DVD to review which makes me a happy mummy (there are only so many times that I can watch her buy new red shoes), and The Boy a happy George Pig.

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Tanatomicals

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Apparently, we're due to have a heatwave later this week. Yeah right, like we did in August? If we do, it will be your last chance to get a tan (safely!) before the sun comes back to see us next year.

It's not going to happen though is it?

Therefore those pale and pasty people like me are going to need a little help to stay looking healthy, alive and not like a zombie. Help in the form of fake tan.

Which is lucky because I've recently been sent some of the products from the new range by Tanatomicals, a fab and funky fake tan range exclusive to Superdrug.

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Competition: Win Maclaren Beginnings Toiletries

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I think it's really important to use mild toiletries to not affect my skin's natural balance, and this is never more important than when selecting products to use with The Boy. Therefore when the lovely Chloe from Baby Things 4 U asked me if I'd like to try a few items from the Maclaren Beginnings range, I jumped for joy!

I'd seen the range advertised on other people's blogs and knew it was good quality toiletries, I just didn't know how yummy smelling they would be as well. We were sent the Maclaren Beginning Purifying Bath and Shower Elixir for mums and the Maclaren Beginning Soothing and Delicate soap for babies.

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Competition: Baby Björn Cup

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Baby Björn. They do those really brilliant baby sling-things don't they? I know nothing about baby-slings, but I do know that Baby Björn make good ones.

Did you know they also make trainer cups? We were recently asked if we'd like to try their baby's first trainer cup, and I was very keen to as The Boy is still using tippy cups and has difficulty with open cups.

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Get Digging!

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I love my garden, seriously love it. When we moved in it was a 70ft x 35ft suburban, ex-council rectangle of:

  • antiquated buxus hedges
  • a dangerous greenhouse
  • a random brick base for, I suspect, a long-gone shed
  • a concrete path leading to <shudder> a concrete washing line

and that was basically it. Oh, and a hell of a lot of broken glass. Six and a half years later and we're still picking bits out of the flowerbeds. First thing to go, before we'd even done anything to the house, was the path and washing line. I blogged about the transformation back in May 2011, linking it up to The Gallery.

I drew a plan, to scale, and laminated it.

Hubby dug, I directed. I weeded, he moved stuff. We had some fabulous barbecues and parties in the garden, I grew copious amounts of vegetables, I lost copious amounts of brassicas due to a vengeful cabbage white butterfly. Everything  panned out almost as I wanted it to.

One area that has been neglected significantly is the vegetable patch and herb garden. Over the last year, I've had to remove half the railway sleeper defined vegetable patches to create more play space for The Boy. I had another go this year at growing vegetables, confident in my previous success, but my seedlings died when I went away on holiday. The herb garden was going great guns, until the fence against it was blown down in a gale, and it crushed the rosemary bush, thyme plant and the coriander. When my dad replaced the fence panel, he put pay to the remaining rosemary bush, so that all that is there at present is an overgrown lavender bush.

I'm not painting a good picture am I?

For a keen gardener it's quite distressing.

Therefore when Bosch contacted me and asked me if I'd like to take part in a competition to transform part or all of my garden, I jumped at the chance. During the two months that I have to complete the challenge I will receive support from Bosch Lawn and Garden, GreenThumb lawn care, and Best4Plants in the form of garden equipment, lawn treatments and plants for the areas I'm making-over.

There are eleven of us 'competing' for the prize of a day with leading gardening expert Helen Yemm and two tickets to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012.

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