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Lovely Feedback From June Giveaway Winner With Further Parenting Book Recommendations

By Sabine on 8 July 2009

The winner of our June summer giveaway sent a lovely email on Tuesday and it seems like the two parenting books by Steve Biddulph have found a good home. Thanks for the kind words Samantha, and thank you for more recommendations for everyone to have a look at. Seems like we all now have some good reading sorted for over the summer.

Dear Sabine,

Image of Raising Girls: Why Girls Are Different--And How to Help Them Grow Up Happy and Strong

I hope this email finds you & your family well! I just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful surprise that arrived, can’t believe it i’ve never won anything in my life!

I will enjoy reading these books as i’m totally into parenting books, my daughter will be 2yrs old in november & at times like most parents need all the help I can lay my hands on!

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I have in fact read a book by Steve Biddulph before called Raising Girls (also written by Gisela Preuschoff) which was very good. I’m currently reading New Toddler Taming by Dr Christopher Green which I would also rate highly. Not to bore you, but have been recommended by a client at work The Incredible Years by Carolyn Webster-Stratton, thank god for amazon!!!!

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Once again thank you very much!

Samantha H. x

Thanks for the tips Samantha. If other parents have good parenting books that you would like to recommend please either post a comment or send me an email.

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Ulula Organic Baby Food – Summer 2009 Give Away

By Sabine on 1 June 2009

I love reading, I read lots of books both fiction and non-fiction and one of my favourite times to read is out in the garden on a lovely summer day. You just can’t beat it. So, to celebrate summer I am giving away some of my favourite reads from last year.

Every Ulula customer who places an order for organic baby food and skin care products during June, July or August will have his or her name entered into a prize draw to win two excellent parenting books by the author Steve Biddulph.

I have three double-packs of “The Secret of Happy Children: A Guide for Parents” and “More Secrets of Happy Children: A Guide for Parents” to give away this summer, both full of priceless advice and food for thought. All orders, large or small, will be entered in the draw and the lucky winners will be notified by email at the end of each month. The books will be send out shortly afterwards.

The Secret of Happy Children

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In this very readable book the author lets you into the mind of your child to show how the positive ways you relate to a child will have strong effects on growing self esteem, responsibility, stable emotions and present and future happiness.

Biddulph shows how negative language will affect children and explains why children may rebel and how you ca deal with any discipline issues. You will find out how kids experience emotions such as anger, fear and apathy.

Other issues are discussed such as fathering, ages and stages, stopping tantrums before they start, and curing shyness. The book contains scenarios, dialogues and case histories alongside cartoons.

An Investment in Your Children

Image of More Secrets of Happy Children: A Guide for Parents

The first time I came across this book was during our summer holidays in Austria at my sisters house. She had this book lying around and once I started reading it I just couldn’t put it down. The book is written in a humorous style without losing any of the seriousness of the subject.

Ever since, I have thought of this book as a bible for modern parents. Nowadays we can’t rely on the extended family for parenting advice and this book gives us much practical, down to earth and genuinely humane understanding, that may otherwise be lost to us in our hectic modern lives.

If you are not one of our three lucky winners, buy them anyway – think of them as an investment in your children and your life together as a family. Here are the Amazon links to the two books:

I wish you as much enjoyment from them as I had. Happy summer reading!

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Make Weaning Babies Part of the Family Mealtime – Start Good Habits Early

By Sabine on 18 May 2009

Here are two statistics that scare me. One in four British households no longer has a table that everyone can eat around. One out of every two meals eaten in Britain is now eaten alone. I am not singling out Britain here, I think this is  trend that is repeated throughout much of Europe and North America, and it is one that I find very sad.

I am a strong believer in eating family meals together – mealtimes for me aren’t just about refueling the body. When  families sit down and eat meals together they have the chance to chat and socialise and to develop and strengthen their relationships. Parents have the opportunity to model the kind of behaviour they would like to see at the meal table as well as encourage a healthy attitude to food.

When families include their baby in their family mealtime routines from the very beginning of weaning, it becomes second nature for the growing baby and child to accept all this, to naturally develop the good habits you want to see and for them to learn some essential lifeskills. So, include your weaning baby in family meals and give him or her a first class education!

I know that eating together at every meal is often difficult – share your experiences on including your weaning baby in family meals and let’s all learn from each other.

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Organic Finger Foods – A Junk Free Concept?

By Sabine on 27 April 2009

At Ulula we believe finger foods and snacks for weaning babies should be not just tasty and fun but also healthy, wholesome treats that help children develop a taste for and love of good food.

It goes without saying that parents play a vital role in educating their children, and that in the first years before a child starts ‘formal education’ much of their learning for their life ahead has already taken place. Nowhere is this probably more true than with our childrens attitudes towards food. Babies learn what good food is only if we feed them good food.

On a recent shopping expedition Roger and I were amazed to see a baby that could not have been older than nine months being fed what looked like a bag of crisps. When we looked closer we could see that what the baby was eating were not crisps as such but rather a pack of  ‘finger foods for babies’. We were so shocked that we went out and bought ourselves several packets from the nearest branch of a well known high street chemist chain to investigate further.

Looking closer at the packets we bought we could see that the ingredients in these crisp-like baby snacks were actually not too bad at all – they were organic and there certainly was no junk.

However, the actual snacks themselves looked just like certain well known crisps varieties and were in packaging that can only be described as looking like crisp packets. They even tasted like milder versions of crisp varieties.

Is this really what we want to be feeding our young babies when they are weaning? Britain already eats more than half of all the crisps and similar savoury snacks eaten in the whole of Europe and is set by the year 2020 for a fifth of all boys and a third of all girls to be clinically obese. We are not saying that these weaning snacks for babies are to blame for this, but we must question whether encouraging our children to eat such things at such an early time in their life really educates them as to what is really good, wholesome food.

The ingredients in these crisps for babies may not contain junk – but this is certainly a junk concept.

Of course, Ulula sells organic finger foods and snacks for babies and growing children (both sweet and savoury), that we source from hand picked companies that we believe take the care to make products that are not only tasty but also wholesome. There are also other companies out there that also sell good quality finger foods and snacks for babies. I guess, the challenge for us as parents is how to choose snacks and treats for our babies that will help them develop a taste for good food that will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives.

What are your experiences of feeding your baby finger foods and snacks? What useful hints can you share with other parents?

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Eating Breakfast Together

By Sabine on 18 April 2009

After re-reading my article on our growing  range of organic breakfast cereals it struck me that breakfast is such an important meal in ways other than as a means of refueling the body.

I don’t know about your family but ours tends only to eat breakfast together at the weekends – and that seems such a shame. Busy Britain does not have time to eat breakfast like it used to. Breakfast is an ideal opportunity to spend time catching up, talking about the day ahead and generally socialising. Of course, time spent with children at the breakfast table is also an important opportunity for us to model the kind of behaviour at the meal table that we would like to see, as well as practising social skills.

For us, weekend breakfasts are such a treat – chatting over the cereals and other goodies can sometimes last for hours! We really must try and find a compromise on weekdays – it must be possible for at least some members of the same family to eat a bowl of breakfast cereals together while still being able to get ready to dash off to our different day time activities, whether work or school.

What are your experiences? How do you juggle the demands of time at breakfast time? Can you manage to sit together with your children at breakfast?

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Organic Goat Milk Formula

By Sabine on 13 April 2009

Milk from goats can be used as an alternative to cows milk, but from what age?

Milk from goats can be used as an alternative to cows milk, but from what age?

Sometimes babies need a formula that is derived from an alternative to cows milk. When I first started Ulula just over four years ago, the Holle organic goats milk formula could be sold from 6 months onwards. But there was a big issue with the Food Standard Agency (FSA) in the UK. The FSA said that there hadn’t been enough studies showing that goat’s milk is an alternative to cow’s milk in terms of the similarity of  proteins within the milks.

I personally ask myself, why has goats milk been used for centuries as an alternative to cow’s milk if it wasn’t one? Why has nature to be questioned all the time? Why have we lost our intuition to judge and make decisions without reading all sorts of opinions, books, magazines, which are often badly researched and which confuse us.

As a mum you are the best person to judge your baby, you know your baby intimately, you watch him all the time. You know when he reacts and how. Some knowledge about nutrition is fine and very helpful. But if you think about it, it is also common sense, which you have as a mum because you are aware of your baby all the time.

The recipe used in the Holle organic goats nutrition (from 12 months) is exactly the same as that sold in Germany from 4 months onwards and in Australia from 6 months onwards. I have a mum buying it for her 4 months old baby because she used it in Australia, is the owner of a business dealing with alternative medicines and, as she said, she knows what she is doing because she ‘listens’ to her baby.

You can find more information about the FSA decision on their website, but it left me with more questions to be honest.

Does your baby drink goat’s milk formula as an alternaive to cows milk? If so, how did you come to the decision to give your baby goats milk? Let us know what you think.

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