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Our June Features
Looking for affordable summer holiday childcare?
The summer holidays can prove a real childcare headache for working parents. At just over six week long, it can be very difficult to find regular cover with local child-minders or friends and family.
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Preserving that perfect smile
Good dental habits start young and you should help your children look after their teeth from a very early age, advises dentist Chig Amin.
He has 10 top tips for looking after your children’s teeth.
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Outdoor fun doesn't cost the earth
What is that strange looking big yellow thing in the sky? Oh wait, it’s the sun. Maybe we can finally turn our thoughts to getting the children playing outside.
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Get your FREE JoJo buggy bag here!
JoJo Maman Bébé are delighted to have teamed up with Surreymummy.com to offer a FREE JoJo Buggy Bag with any spend over £15 in one of our Surrey stores*.
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Researchers from Cambridge University compared empathy skills in children who played weekly music-based games for a year with those who did not. The musical group scored higher in end-of-year tests of how well they recognised other people's emotions. Lead author Tal-Chen Rabinowitch said: "Musical interaction may enhance a capacity for emotional empathy." |
The BBC reports: Regularly playing music in groups may improve children's ability to empathise with others, suggests a study.In the news
Girl Guides promise to serve Queen, but no longer God and country 19 June 2013, 07.16 
The Guardian reports: God, Queen and country – the foundations of the Girl Guides were trumpeted from the very first days of the organisation's existence in 1910. But now, following a consultation with members, God |
Pregnant women told moderate drinking will not harm the baby 18 June 2013, 07.30 
The Independent reports: Drinking a small glass of wine every day while pregnant may do no harm to the brain development of babies in the womb, a new study suggests.
Drinking a small glass of wine every day while |
IVF: First baby born using 'safer' method 18 June 2013, 07.23 
The BBC reports: In a world first, a healthy baby has been born using a "safer" method of the infertility treatment IVF.
Baby Heath - who is now nearly eight weeks old - was conceived using a natural hormone to |
Sleepy heads? 17 June 2013, 15.11 
At Luck’s we care about the families we encounter and we are interested in the impact that lack of sleep seems to have on many children today.
We have therefore created a small survey of only 10 Read More Sleepy heads? |
Children take part in live history lesson 17 June 2013, 08.54 
Schoolchildren will be taking part in a history lesson with a difference as they help out at an archaeological recording.
The live lessons will take place at Reigate Fort, on top of Reigate Hill, over the next few weeks. |
Maternity wards close 1,000 times a year to expectant mothers, figures show 17 June 2013, 08.25 
The Guardian reports: Maternity wards are shutting their doors to expectant mothers more than 1,000 times a year, figures suggest.
Thousands of women have been forced to travel up to 65 miles to find an alternative ward |
The school run gets speedier 17 June 2013, 08.11 
The Independent reports: The micro-scooter ‘fad’ has proved to be anything but. And now parental transport has gone wheely mad with the advent of the skatepram.
The skatepram is a buggy that is also a Read More The school run gets speedier |