Making Your Home More Child-Friendly

If you’ve recently welcomed a new addition to your family, you may have thought of moving house. Sometimes, when your circumstances change dramatically, it’s good to weigh up the options. Having children turns your life upside down, but moving house isn’t always on the cards. If you’ve got enough space at home, there’s usually scope to make your home more suitable for living with little ones. Here are some tips to make your house more child-friendly.

Knock down walls

If you have an old house, you may find that you have a series of small rooms rather than large open spaces often found in newer homes. Many families find that open plan living works better for them. If you don’t have a spacious kitchen, you don’t have to start looking online for houses for sale or calling estate agents. It’s often possible to knock down walls to create a bigger, more open space. If you’ve got a large kitchen-diner, your room becomes more versatile, and you can do lots of different jobs at the same time. It’s easier to spend time together as a family, and you can chat, cook and play with the kids at the same time. If you are thinking about changing the layout of your home, ask friends and colleagues for recommendations, and search online for building firms in your local area. It’s always beneficial to shop around. Don’t just go for the first quote, as you may find that timeframes and fees vary hugely. 

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How to Look After a Sick Child While You’re Working

The thought of our children getting ill is already enough to turn our stomachs and make us worried, but it’s even worse if it happens during a tough period at work or while we’re several miles away at the office. It’s a struggle trying to balance your working life and your family life, but it’s several times harder when you factor in a sick child. But fear not! This guide will teach you how you can take care of your children while also working to your usual standard.

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Control The Parental Urge To Splurge

As parents, we want our kids to have the best possible. If there’s a problem, we want to be able to turn to our trusty kit and have a solution to hand. For every ailment, every cut, every scrape, everything we can possibly conceive of - we want to be the mom who already has the solution before the problem even arises.

This is all well and good, and all part of the protective instinct that goes hand-in-hand with parenthood. However, there is a catch, and it’s generally found in your family finances. You might want to have the solution to everything, but that doesn’t mean you have all the available funds to do so. And there is some argument that trying to preempt every bad situation isn’t going to work anyway - you just know the rules of the universe won’t allow that to happen! 

So the first way your expenses can rack up as a parent is with the protective need. The second is somewhat less necessary, but it doesn’t stop the desire. Let’s admit it: baby and toddler clothes are cute. They’re adorable in and of themselves, as perfect little replica-of-adulthood garments, and they’re even cuter when on your child. With babies particularly growing so quickly, there’s a never-ending excuse for a parade of fashionable items and the desire for a new outfit every day. No, it’s not sensible, but when have wonderful things ever been sensible? 

See? Adorable.

Alternative Ways to Treat Chronic Pain

While medicine these days is fantastic, there are still lots of things that it can’t help with. People can have chronic pain which doctors simply can’t get to the bottom of, and when standard painkillers don't help (and are damaging to the body) what comes next? Thankfully there are plenty of safe, alternative methods you can try which have been shown to be extremely helpful to some people. Whether you want to come off painkillers, lower your dose or supplement them, here are a few treatments you could consider.

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Baby Nutrition Made Easy

Feeding a baby isn’t as simple as feeding a toddler or a child. Since they’re in very early stages of development, it’s critical that you feed your baby the right nutrients and minerals to see them grow healthily. There are many different things you need to know, and this guide will go through most of the basics on baby nutrition. You might think that you can just feed your child the baby food that you find on shelves at a supermarket and you’d be somewhat right, but your child deserves better.

Important Note About Diets

Let’s make this clear first; do not feed your baby based on a diet that you personally follow. If you are vegan, don’t feed your child purely vegan food to follow in your footsteps. There’s an article on usatoday.com that reports about a baby that was fed a strict vegan diet because of his parents. The doctors found the baby was severely malnourished and his calcium and iron levels were very low. The baby was eventually removed from the parents and he is now recovering from his ordeal.