Why Computers and Video Games Aren’t Always Bad For Our Kids – A guest post

I remember the good old days. The days where you’d get in from school and head straight down to the park to play with your mates.   Computers were just making an appearance when I left education. We had one room of Acorn desktops to cater for the entire school’s ICT lessons, but that was it.   The Mega Drive had just burst onto
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I have an addiction…

It started by hanging with the wrong crowd. A group of people I knew well, who told me they were into this really cool thing. Like sweets only better – you didn’t put on any weight. Sounds good right? Sounds brilliant? No. This addiction results in you never getting enough sleep. You drive your friends crazy asking for help. You dream of falling sweets.
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Team Noah – Race day is fast approaching!

Argggghhhh! It’s here! My race number and shoe tag!   What were we thinking? Two mums who were totally out of shape – running a half marathon.   I’d not run since 2007 and Vicki hadn’t run at all when we did our first training run in November. It almost very nearly killed us and the happy, bouncy idea of running a half marathon
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Having two, close together ~ an amazingly hard but fantastic journey!

My little ones were born 364 days apart. They were both born at 3.42pm. I had a pain relief free, home-birth, waterbirth for both, and after Oscars birth, the next day threw a big party for a Betsy’s first birthday! Friends and family thought I was mad, but I was just high on that ‘after birth’ feeling – full of energy and happiness. The
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