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Five Go Gluten Free: A review

Five Go Gluten Free: A review

Did you receive it or buy it? Anyone who’s unlucky enough to have had IBS, celiac (coeliac) disease or a persistent bloaty belly and has decided to no longer eat wheat, will have received this book ‘Enid Blyton Five Go Gluten Free’. They’ll get it for Christmas or Hanukkah, and

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  • More twaddle talked about anorexia

More twaddle talked about anorexia

I was so narked to pick up the Sunday Times this morning, to see a well respected broadcaster being quoted as saying that anorexia in young people is about narcissism or self love. What a load of twaddle. So many people would love for that to be the case as

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  • Feeding teenagers | How to grow a tall man

Feeding teenagers | How to grow a tall man

Feeding teenage boys lots of calories can help you to grow a tall man – genetics permitting. Getting food right for boys can affect their height. My youngest kid is 13 and has taken up football. Some parents have asked me: “How comes he’s so tall – are there giants in

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  • Why having a kitten is like having a baby
  • Why having a kitten is like having a baby
  • Why having a kitten is like having a baby
  • Why having a kitten is like having a baby

Why having a kitten is like having a baby

Should you get a pet? The other week, I bought my husband a kitten. A chance detour and visit to a pet shop in Thornton Heath, South London, with my Mum, and out we walk with a four-month old kitten. Black as petrol, sweet as treacle. From her cell-like cupboard in

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  • MTV are looking for young people who live in messy rooms!

MTV are looking for young people who live in messy rooms!

Are you a parent in the US who constantly nags your child to clean up their room?  Is their room full of junk, clutter, old clothes and litter? Does their roommate or boyfriend or girlfriend complain that they live like a slob? If this sounds like someone that you know then please get in touch

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  • Meet Benjamin a bath toy who can help you shed pounds

Meet Benjamin a bath toy who can help you shed pounds

How do you stay trim? Do bath toys play a part in your healthy eating regime? Let me introduce you to our bath toy and dieting aid, Benjamin. Our kids are teenagers, so none of us is playing with him in the suds – however fetching he looks in his

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How to stop nagging your kids

After a case of reader’s block (where you can’t find anything you want to read) I picked Difficult Conversations by Anne Dickson off the shelf in our living room at random. Published in 2004, it has been sitting there for ten years with our uni books which had at least

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Why I hit the bottle this week

Shock on the scales! I have lost three pounds without dieting. Let me tell you how, as this is miraculous for me and might work for you if you need it to. Fat clings to me like cladding to an old boiler. For years, it hasn’t mattered what I’ve done,

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The middle classes’ best kept secret

My Dad was asking the other day why our son was staying on for A Levels. He wondered if a 17 year old should be getting a job given the high rates of graduate unemployment. Good question. So I told him about the shocking truth I discovered when I went

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Let’s teach teens how to handle their emotions

Every now and again you see a newspaper report on a kid who has topped him or herself. It’s every parent’s nightmare. The worst, the worst, the worst. I just went to look up the one I saw in the press this week on Google to illustrate my point, and

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