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Wow! Looks like we could be in for a scorcher this year. Bring out the barbies and lets hope that we can enjoy the sunshine throughout the summer holi-days.

Once again we have been busy at Handprints Maga-zine HQ and we have managed to bag loads of spe-cial offers and discounts for our readers, check out our centre pages for all our offers and a competition to win family tickets to Baby Loves Disco – the newest club-bing trend for kids and adults which launched in Bristol in May. Whilst we talk about busy our Lisa has achieved a phenomenal goal – she successfully trekked along the Great Wall of China to raise almost £4000 for the Have a Heart Charity fund. Much of this money will go directly to local community projects for children and its something that Lisa was passionate and committed

to – even when she was missing Stan and Toby at home with Dad and nursing blistering feet. So from all of us - WELL DONE LISA! You are amazing! You will never look at a cream tea in the same way again.

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“During a routine 6 month check our Health Visitor men-tioned that she thought Oliver had a misaligned head and referred us to our local GP. Our GP referred us to a pediatrician for further tests and a possible MRI scan,

We were very worried and immediately went home and looked for Plagiocephaly on the internet, we found it is much more common that we thought. It was then that we found out about LOC, they had a very informative website and when we contacted them they gave us good advice and as they are based in Bristol they are local for us.

when Rachel, our consultant, diagnosed positional pla-giocephaly with no uncomfortable scans or intrusive test and offered us a non invasive treatment called Cra-

helmet to Oliver for approx 6 months.

Before our second appointment – less than 2 weeks later - we were very nervous and dreaded the thought of making Oliver wear a helmet but Oliver has adapted to his helmet with no problems. He has to wear it for 23 hours a day and is really not affected by it.

Oliver has been wearing his helmet for 2 months now and we have already seen a difference. We have to attend the clinic every few weeks for the treatment to be monitored and any adjustments made to the helmet.

We also found out that Oliver had a condition called tor-ticollis – a tightening of muscles in one side of the neck – which meant that he couldn’t fully rotate his head, so he would only lie in one position which resulted in the Flat-head syndrome.

The LOC advised us that it is important to treat this con-dition whilst improving the head shape in the helmet and we are doing this with regular neck stretches and Cranial Osteopathy.

We would highly recommend LOC. If any parents have any concerns about their child’s head they

-fer a free initial consultation. It is important to seek advice through your GP and referrals but we would advise any concerned parents to query that advice with an independent specialist like LOC. It’s also important not to leave it too long as the younger a baby is treated, the more effective and quicker the treatment can be”.

If you would like an opinion on your baby’s head shape you can e-mail pictures to: [email protected]

To book a FREE consultation call: 020 8974 9989LOC have clinics in Kingston, Bristol Cardiff, Exeter and Ross on Wye.

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The LOC advised us that it is important to treat this con-dition whilst improving the head shape in the helmet and we are doing this with regular neck stretches and Cranial Osteopathy.

We would highly recommend LOC. If any parents have any concerns about their child’s head they

-fer a free initial consultation. It is important to seek advice through your GP and referrals but we would advise any concerned parents to query that advice with an independent specialist like LOC. It’s also important not to leave it too long as the younger a baby is treated, the more effective and quicker the treatment can be”.

If you would like an opinion on your baby’s head shape you can e-mail pictures to: [email protected]

To book a FREE consultation call: 020 8974 9989LOC have clinics in Kingston, Bristol Cardiff, Exeter and Ross on Wye.

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Baby MassageA special and fun time with your baby

Choose from a group 5 week course or home individual tuition - letting you learn a simple, effective

massage with your baby in a way that suits you. Suitable for babies from 7 weeks

Some comments from parents

‘ A great course to do to help bond with your baby’ ‘ It’s a lovely way to spend time with baby’

Further feedback available on the website See website or call for further information

and details for groups: [email protected] 07779 234144

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Louise Morgan is a complementary practitioner and baby massage instructor. For further information and to read feedback from parents about baby massage call Louise on 07779 234 144 or see www.louise-morgan.co.uk

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Need to buy a gift but stuck for original ideas? Mama C’s Brownies has the perfect solution, deliciously indulgent and almost addictive chocolate brownies. All home baked, individually sealed, gift wrapped and delivered to your door.Nadya Callahan is Chief Brownie Maker at Mama C’s Brown-ies, established after years of baking for her family who all decided that my brownies were so good that she could sell them! Mama C’s Brownies are all hand made to order using the best ingredients using 70.4% cocoa solids Belgian chocolate and the most beautifully fragrant 100% Madagascan Bour-bon Vanilla Extract to make probably the best brownies you’ll ever taste.Your brownies will arrive wrapped in tissue paper, secured with bubble wrap, boxed and tied with twine with an outer box to protect them further still. Choose from a batch of 6 or 12 brownies or an 11”x7” slab for sharing. Flavours to choose from are Original Dark Choco-late, Belgian Milk Chocolate Chunk, Belgian White Chocolate Chunk, Dark Orange Chocolate, Mint Chocolate and Dried Cherry. All are deliciously moist and taste great served warm or cold. Also available with the option of Gluten Free or Dairy free, brownies to suit everyone. Visit the website and order today. www.mamacsbrownies.co.uk

Tel. 01275543484 or 07773665780 Email. [email protected]

Lyncombe House, Lyncombe Vale, Bath, BA2 4LTT: 01225 310 837 F: 01225 427 980

Email: [email protected]

IAPS Co-educational Day School 3-11

‘This is a Prep School that is beginning to fly.’(Good Schools Guide 2008)

The Paragon School has been transformed in the last two years and is going from strength to strength.Come and see for yourself.

OPEN MORNINGSaturday 7th February 200910am – 12 NoonSaturday 17th October 2009

10am - 12 noon

agon.priorpark.co.uk

Lyncombe House, Lyncombe Vale, Bath, BA2 4LT

T: 01225 310 837 F: 01225 427 980

Email: [email protected]

www.priorparkschools.co.uk

IAPS Co-educational Day School 3-11

‘This is a Prep School

that is beginning to fly’(Good Schools Guide 2009)

• Happy and dynamic prep school

• Small classes, excellent teaching

• Outstanding music and sport

• Impressive academic results

Open Door DayFriday 12th March 2010

9.30am - 11.30amNo appointment necessary

see the school on a normal working day

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Beansprouts and Pixies

The 12th annual reading challenge, Space Hop, takes place this summer in Libraries in Bath. Space Hop starts on Saturday July 17th, so hop along to your library to join in. There are lots of Space Hop activities throughout Bath Libraries this summer with Crafts and reading fun!

Get down to your local library for more information or check out Bath Libraries at www.bathnes.gov.uk/libraries.

Look out for Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman “Aliens love underpants, in every shape and size, But there are no underpants in space, so here’s a big surprise...” You probably thought aliens came down to Earth with a view to taking over the planet - but, no, they simply want to steal your pants! This zany and hilarious tale in rhyming text is brought to life by Ben Cort’s illustrations and is sure to enchant and amuse the whole family - you’ll laugh your pants off!.

Further details of all library activities can be found at www.bathnes.gov.uk/libraries


Dust off your dancing shoes, its time to Disco baby!If you thought the days of clubbing were a thing of the past for parents well think again. Handprints Bear joined the newest clubbing trend to hit the South West at Baby Loves Disco.

“How much fun can you have on a Sunday after-noon. Well give us disco music, a kiddies chill out zone, free healthy snacks, bubbles, nappy changing areas for little ones and we can show you a LOT of fun for grown ups and children! there’s even free bar snacks for grown ups”

Handprints Bear met lots of friends at this unique disco event – where grown ups and children get to

had the chance to relax in the treatment zone.

Handprints Magazine have bagged some free tick-ets to the next Baby Loves Disco Events in Bristol on 18th Sept and 30th Oct. For the chance to win a family ticket to Baby Loves Disco in Septem-ber or October email [email protected] with your contact details. Winners will be picked at random prior to the event.

For more information about the next

Baby Loves Disco event on 18th Sept at Oceana nightclub check out

http://www.babylovesdisco.co.uk/locations/bristol/

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At-Bristol is chock-full of entertainment this SummerCome and celebrate 10 years of stunning science with At-Bristol this Summer. By bringing back some of the public’s favourite science demos and tricks from over the years – from screaming Jellybabies and burning bubbles to Marshmallow astronauts – it is guaranteed there will be lots of surprising science fun!These birthday celebra-tions are in addition to 300 hands-on exhibits and the ‘Fossils and funnybones’ under eights’ area. This is an amazing archaeology exhibition where you can dig for fascinating fossils and look for the different kinds of life that were around many years ago.‘Altitude: the fantastic ight show!’ is the new

Live Science show which is celebrating 100 years of ight in the South West. It is a jet-powered look at the science behind ight and aviation.Then 1 September sees the very rst of At-Bristol’s new Toddler Takeover days with ‘Splish, splash, splosh!’ All activities in At-Bristol on these days are designed especially for little ones with lots of activi-ties to amuse them as well as Storytelling sessions and the lanetarium only showing our under ves’ Planetarium show Little Stars. Toddlers will be able to splash about with wonder-ful watery experiments, create beautiful giant bouncing bubbles and test out other oating and sinking experiments while enjoying a good splosh around!For more information please visit the website: www.at-bristol.org.uk


At Debutots Early Years Drama we know how important it is to nurture young imaginations so that through productive creative play, children can make sense of the very big world they live in.

Our popular weekly and Saturday term time classes, are a unique blend of interactive storytelling and dramatic play

week we may be swinging through the jungle as monkeys , the next we could be blasting off into space to search for cheese as Micestraunauts! Anything is possible with Debutots! From September we are very excited to announce new classes in South Bristol in association with David Lloyd Health Club in Long Ashton. We are now taking bookings for our Baby

For further details on Debutots classes, holiday work-shops, classes for schools and nurseries and birthday

parties contact Lucy on 01454 612063 or email [email protected] or look at

www.debutots.co.uk for a full timetable

Where will your imagination take you this summer?

Bring your child’s imagination to life with a Debutots Drama Party

Why not invite Fairy Fuddle or Pirate Gold-stealer to entertain at your children’s party?

Suitable for 1 - 6 year olds and highly recommended by parents and children.

Also available for school and nursery par-ties. Book now for christmas

Picnics! That’s what summers are meant for (well, apart from BBQ’s, but that’s another story!). So come the weekend and the sun is out, it seems rude not to go for a picnic. So we sort the sandwiches, make the soft drinks, rummage round the kitchen for the plastic mugs (that haven’t been used since

the car, in goes the food bags, then the blanket, the kid’s hats, spare clothes (just in case), suntan lotion and balls of various sizes. It takes all the planning and preparation of a small scale military expedition just to sit

and a castle (although not a real one), but it seems whenever we go there, it always seems like we’re sat in a wind tunnel. Great for kites, but not so good for picnics, but being stubborn English we put up with it. “It took all this effort to come

say we are soon packing up and heading back to the car and heading off to a less windy venue…… our back garden!

Summer means family days out for dads...

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Excessive heat and glare from the sun can be very irritating, especially for young children in cars. Their prolonged discomfort can become very wearing for parents too, particularly on long journeys.

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It’s more than just becoming water-confident. It’s about nurturing your child’s natural love of water. Join at any age, from birth.

Tel 0117 Email @puddleducks.com

Puddle Ducks is a fun and friendly swimming programme offering unique baby swimming, toddler swimming and child swimming classes across the UK.

The thirty minute weekly sessions are packed full of fun with lots of songs, rhymes, splashing and kicking, as well as gentle submersions, for children from

until they are ready for “Dabblers”, a class for children who are three years

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Tantrums

Tantrums are natural for this age group, and any parent who claims their has never had a tantrum is lying. Don’t back down, no matter how bad the tantrum; see through your request. It will be far easier next time – clear and consistent boundaries are crucial for developing good behaviour.

Rewards

You can add a reward for good behav-iour, but don’t bribe: it weakens your po-sition. Never say ‘If you’re good, I’ll buy you some sweets’, because I guarantee that the next time you go shopping the child’s behaviour will be even worse.

Be consistent

The boundaries and rules you put in place must be clear and consistent. It is pointless not allowing Tom to play with his lorry on the table one day and then allowing it another day. Children can have very long memories and will quickly spot inconsistencies or injustice.

Parent, not friend

Don’t worry about being in your child’s ‘bad books’. We are all there some-times – it comes with territory of good parenting. Any parent who avoids enforcing rules or discipling their child because they don’t want to incur their child’s displeasure will have their au-thority and respect severely diminished in the child’s eyes.

Positive rather than negative

Always take a positive view, and as-sume that good behaviour in your child is the norm. Start each day afresh and do not hang on to past grievances. Children quickly move on and forget their bad behaviour. They want your praise for doing what is right, so they won’t dwell on instances when they didn’t get it right, and neither should you

Bestselling author and parenting expert Cathy Glass shares some invaluable pointers to

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Toddler Taming Tips... From Little Monsters to Little Angels

Happy Kids: The Secret to Raising Well-Behaved, Contented Children by Cathy Glass is out now in paperback (HarperCollins), priced £7.99. Visit

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Where is Handprints Bear?

Hello, I have been very busy. I have been danc-ing, splashing, meeting animal friends and to some of my favourite parks - I even met the police and almost got a ride in a police van!

I found some of the best parks ever in Bath at Victoria Park and in Bristol at Oldland Park. I love the climbing frames, slides, sand and just love being outdoors playing with my friends. They are so much fun, you should visit them soon.

During April term break we spent a week on a farm in Hartland and visited loads of local attrac-tions... Combe Martin Wildlife park being one of them (or dinosaur land as my friends Stan & Toby now call it) As you walk down into the park there’s loads green foliage, animal noises and wild roars and growls of animatronic dinosaurs - its quite a shock to the senses, we were squealing with delight so we knew we were in for a good day! There was so much to do we really lled the entire day and everyone had a blast, mum dad, Gran, Grandad, auntie Sharon, Stan 3 & Toby 2. We rode on all the bikes/scooters/rubber boats in the play park, we got wet on the train ride, saw a light show, an amazing sea lion display, fed and stroked the wallabies and shared our lunch with a lemur (they love apples!) and that was just our favourite bits! Whole-heartedly recommend Combe Martin Wild-life park as a great family day out.

I also got to join in the fun at the Bristol Family Information Service Fun in the Park day at Red-catch park in Knowle. The FIS do this every year and I went along with Charlotte and Thomas, I met lots of new friends and enjoyed bounc-ing in the ball pit and joining in with all the ac-tivities for free on the day. I met a policeman who let me look all around their car and van. Who knows what I will get up to during summer and autumn, I can’t wait for my summer holidays.

If you would like Handprints Bear to visit

you please contact [email protected] and let us

know where and when he can visit.

Our teddy about town has been very busy since our last edition. Here are some of his favourite places and days out.

Family Information Service Tel: 0845 129 7217 Email: [email protected]


NURSERIES & PRE-SCHOOLS

Pepperpot Bathford Pre School, Dovers Park, Bathford - 01225 852555 Sunshine Pre-School, United Reform Church, Frome Road, Odd Down - 01225 837202 Guinea Lane Nursery, St Mary’s Hall, Guinea Lane - 01225 487858 Alice Park Nursery, 1 Alice Park, Gloucester Road - 01225 424971 Combe Down Nursery, Combe Road, Combe Down - 01225 840575 Foxtots Nursery, Bradford Park, Foxhill - 01225 884648 Hopscotch Nursery, 98 Wellsway - 01225 448191 Mulberry House Nursery, High Street, Bathampton - 01225 339843 Apple Tree Day Nursery, Spring Lane - 01225 318744 Westwood Nursery, University of Bath, The Avenue - 01225 386518 Snapdragons Day Nursery, 4 Grosvenor Place, London Road - 01225 483660 Snapdragons Day Nursery, Henley Lodge, Weston Road - 01225 426255 Combe Grove Manor Day Nursery, Barceló Combe Grove Manor Hotel, Monkton Combe - 01225 835734 Barnaby Pre-School, St Barnabas Church Hall, Mount View - 07980 486977 First Steps Moorlands Childrens Centre, Moorfi elds Road - 01225 317123 Footsteps Day Nursery, The Rosaries Culverhay School, Rush Hill - 01225 429989 Jack and Jill Playgroup, Methodist Church Hall, Northend - 07947 470599 Little Scribblers, Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall - 07747 081626 Norton St Philip Pre-School, Church Street, Norton St Philip - 0775 2469569

Zebedees Day Nursery, Avon Street - 01225 316639 Little “ens” Nursery, Granville Street, Ensleigh - 01225 468879 YMCA Day Nursery, Broad Street Place - 01225 325911

PLAYGROUPS & ACTIVITIES

Tunley Toddlers, Tunley Recreation Centre - 01761 415620 Sunfl owers Toddlers, Odd Down Community Centre, Odins Road - 01225 830810/01225 830089

CHILDCARE PROVIDERS

Norland Agency - 01225 904030

HELPLINES

Family Information Service, 178 Easton Road, Easton, Bristol - 0845 1297217

For more information on services in your area you can also check out www.1bigdatabase.org.uk andnetmums.com

If your organisation is not listed here please contact us on 0800 8824027 or email [email protected]

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