Activities
Winter Sport Focus: Rugby
Many believe that rugby is just scrums, rucks and heavy-handed contact – a sport which parents may be reluctant for their young children to partake in. But, until the age of around 9, rugby is […]
Health and Fitness
Health and Fitness
Life saving first aid skills with St. John Ambulance
Simple first aid skills can be the difference between a life lost and a life saved and yet, worryingly, just 1 in 10* people have the skills to save a life. St John Ambulance, the […]
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Helping Children Stay Active During Winter
Staying inside is usually much more tempting when days are shorter and when the temperature has dropped. Wrangling your children inside during the summer months seems like a distant memory, as even the most active […]
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Sporting Superstar: An Interview with Warren Vice
Meet Warren Vice, 6th Dan TAGB (Taekwondo Association of Great Britain) fighter and head instructor at Sefton TAGB Taekwondo. The holder of 22 world championship gold titles and winner of ALL national titles in the […]
Child Safety
Keeping Children Sun-Safe
Keeping Children Sun-Safe As the weather gets warmer and the sun shines brighter, children are often playing outside for much longer periods of time – meaning we need to take precautions against various dangers which […]
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Making Fitness fun
Our ancestors have been on the planet for 6 million years. The modern form of humans have been around for about 200,000 years. Our ‘Hunter-Gatherer” ancestors lived a very different life to us. They would […]
Health and Fitness
The Sweet Stuff
The Sweet Stuff –Limiting Your Child’s Sugar Intake Following the news of numerous family-branded products we often deem as being ‘healthy’ forced to include labels advising ‘occasional’ consumption (in line with a five-year global health […]
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Portion Control
Portion Control Calorie consumption and expenditure is extremely difficult to understand. It is incredibly hard to apply various, generalised numbers fed to us from varying sources to an individual child, especially when children weigh different […]
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Eating out doesn’t have to be unhealthy – tips for making informed choices
When visiting a restaurant, it is often too easy to over indulge. When not preparing your own meals, it is hard to track what bad fats, sugar and calories are being consumed. But, there are […]
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Feeding Your Family For Less
Healthy food has the connotation of being an expensive lifestyle choice, especially with an army of mouths to feed! We are often bombarded with food choices which claim to offer economical value, but little to […]