Smart watch for children

Let’s talk smart watches but for little ones. Not old enough for a phone or Apple/android Watch what else is out there? Well Emily and Alfie both have an Xplora XGO3 one. Both received them for their birthday and have a giffgaff SIM card. I put £10 credit on, on their birthday’s and haven’t had to top up yet as they can only ring a few people and they know it’s only when needed. 

It’s pretty basic but they feel grown up and for less than £140 it’s a good starting point.

Benefits

• GPS & Safety Zones I love that I can track them from my phone (fab for school trips, playing at friends houses and just incase when we go busy places). - Xplora XGO 3 uses multiple services to show the device location. An option is available to setup Safety Zones around key locations such as home and school

• Only people I add to the contacts using the app can call or they call them. 

• It doesn’t have text messages but I can message them both through the app and they can message me. Messages are free just uses data. 

• It can take pictures

• It counts steps 

• They all seem to love playing with the calculator and going through the ring tones.

• You can change the watch face through a choice of about 5 I think. 

Screen shots showing Home Screen, chat feature, call and where they are. 

This is how we message 

They can type or do voice notes. 

It gives me notifications if it’s turned on or off and can creat safe zone

Tracking is pretty accurate ‘within 15 meters’ often goes down to within 5. But when driving it will fluctuate

So this what the safe zone looks like, if they were to leave that area I get a notification

My children are really happy with their watches for now. I would look at updating Emily’s in the next year as she is about to turn 9 and by time she goes to high school I would be looking at getting her a phone. 

Would you be interested in a smart watch before moving on to a phone? 

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Dydd Santes Dwynwen

St Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, which makes her the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine. We celebrate St Dwynwens on the 25th January.

This year the girls made a cake for us to share. They did a great job don't you think?

I love that we found such a easy hack to make cake mix vegan by just mixing with fizzy drink (plain soda water using our Sodastream* is our favourite way to do this) making this perfect for Veganuary and making it allergen friendly for our cmpa and egg allergy children!

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New year same old me

Happy new year, not a new year new me type of post but more a realistic saying it as it is post.

I look at these photos over the last 6 years and in each one I HATED something about me but in all of them there was something I liked. I think I will always wish I could change something. The white dress, I was the happiest I have been with my body since I was pregnant with Emily and the lowest weight I had been since I was 18. I hate that when I am pregnant and I have HG I lose weight and I feel so happy with how my body looks; Thinner extremities and small round baby bump belly. The blue dress I was still in the post HG body. It was squishier but still smaller than I was before (and I am now). I was 35/36 weeks in white dress and 5 weeks postpartum in blue.   

Why do we put pressure on ourselves to look a certain way? I LOVED my pink hair. At home, in pictures, with my safe people it felt good BUT I hated how some people looked at me with it and how self conscious I felt at the school gates even though I had loads of people telling me that they loved it. 

I want to do it again but I’m not in the ‘I don’t care’, ‘let them’, ‘doing it for me’ era that so many people seem to be into atm. 

I am and probably will always be in a ‘need to hide’, ‘don’t fit in’, ‘no one likes me’ era. One day I might say fuck it but for now I will cower and deal with the self hatred. So here’s to 2024 where nothing will change. I have tried to change it since I was 13 and yet it never works, it brings with it eating disorders, self harm, self loathing, anxiety and all the other lovely stuff

These little ladies graduated Clwb

 

Amy and her besties graduated Clwb (playgroup/play school from 2 till full time school) ready for full days of school in September. Amy started just after she turned 2 before she started school and now does one day a week wrap around before school as she is in the afternoons.
Unfortunately, they are getting split into two classes which none of us mums are happy about. They have made such a beautiful friendship. I will cherish the memories and stories they have shared with us this last year of school. Amy loves these girls so much and they have been an absolute pillar in getting her to school. She will often get upset and protest going to school. The teacher will allow one of the girls to come to the door to hold Amy's hand going in and it has made such s difference in how Amy goes to school. I couldn't be more thankful for her little friendship group. 

The pictures are from Amy's 4th Birthday party. She had pretty pinks, purples and butterflies as the theme and it was all carried out my our lovely friend Kim from Sailboards, balloons, welcome sign, and bouncy castle by the lovely @white.cloud.events 

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