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We stayed at South Penquite Farms and now I want to live in a yurt

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Summer is a difficult time for holidays. It shouldn’t be, of course, but if you’ve got kids you’ll know that once the school holidays hit everything seems to cost at least 462 times more and is ridiculously crowded. As we’ve recently moved to Cornwall we’ve seen it a lot in our town, the shops suddenly all ran out of holiday essentials (toilet roll and cider) and when it rains (which of course because we’re still in the UK) the car park for soft play is quite unreal. We wanted to go away for a couple of days but we didn’t want to spend a grand or feel like a sardine so after a bit of hunting my husband found South Penquite Farm in Bodmin and now I’m wondering if I should be typing this up or trying to keep it a secret.

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Parenting Hacks for Trips to the Beach

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Just over a week ago we moved down to Cornwall, it’s a gorgeous place and of course it’s rammed full of fantastic beaches! As a parent I know how much my kids love playing at the beach but I’m also normally the mum who forgets a change of clothes and watches as their kids run into the waves. With that in mind, today I’m sharing my favourite parenting hacks for trips to the beach, I know I’m going to be using these this summer too!

beach hacks for parents

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12 Parenting Hacks for Trips to the Park

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Summers here which means more time out and about with the kids – hurray! But as any parent know going out and about with kids isn’t quite always as easy as you’d hope for. These parenting hacks for trips to the park are all tried and tested ways to make your life that little bit easier so that you can really enjoy this summer. Got a great tip? Make sure you add it to the comments at the end!

park hacks every parent should know about

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Peppa Pig’s Surprise Review

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Twenty five minutes until Peppa Pig’s Surprise is due to start and my two year old is lying on the floor in the front room having a meltdown because she has to wear shoes. ‘We’re going to see Peppa.’ I tell her. ‘You love Peppa!’ And she does love Peppa, she’s wearing her Peppa tshirt, has watched Peppa that morning and she’s now lying on the floor screaming and I start to panic that things, to put it politely, are not looking good.

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My Best Tips for Travelling with Kids in the Car

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My kids hate going on road trips. Actually, since my second child was born I’ve actively avoided going anywhere further than an hour away, it was just to stressful, too unpleasant. She wanted to scream and fight her way out of the car and I figured I’d rather stay at home. But then fate (or crazy ideas that I have on a Saturday night) threw a bit of a spanner in the works and suddenly we were forced into making long road trips with the kids. Lots of long road trips with them. See, we decided to sell our place here in Essex and move to the other side of the country to Cornwall, which is great and fun and exciting and oh my days that is one looong journey. So we had to take the kids on a six hour journey to see the place before we moved there. And we have to view properties. And actually move. And then come back from the west coast to the east because all our family still live back here and there’s no flights and the nearest train station is 25 miles away so that isn’t going to work either. So these are my very best tips for travelling with kids in the car, because this is something that I’ve really had to work on and if you have any tips I’d really appreciate it if you could pop them in the comments section below!

Tips for Travelling with Kids in the Car…

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