Mum's Mail November 2018 Pietermaritzburg and Midlands

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Issue 144 • Pietermaritzburg & Midlands • November 2018

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In this issue...

Everyday Life

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Meet our Cover Stars, enter to WIN one of two Wedgewood hampers and a stunning Chateau Gateaux hamper, plus read about car seat safety for children.

Healthy Life/Beautiful Life

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Find out how vital it is for parents to look after their mental health and learn about Antibiotic Awareness Week.

Kids’ Life/Party Life

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Read about the new Shopkins Mini Packs from Prima Toys and enter to WIN a Ready 2 Robot toy.

Educated Life

Find schools, tutors, extra-murals and other educational services.

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The Mum’s Mail Team

Editor: Victoria Arthur • editor@mumsmail.com • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 5) Operations Director: Andrew Arthur • andrew@mumsmail.com • 031 - 573 1731 Sub-Editor: Sarah Mackintosh • sarah@mumsmail.com • 072 384 9553 • Enquiries: Natalie Wilcox • 031 - 573 1731 (ext 1) Advertising Sales: Bev Delew • bev@mumsmail.com • 071 276 0926, Anisha Singh • anisha@mumsmail.com • 083 710 9485 Designer: Wendy Offer Models: Henk, Melissa, Quinn & Mila Fawell • Photographer: Greg Groenewald, 083 491 4436

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Cover Stars

Meet the Cover Stars Our lovely cover stars this month are the Fawell family from Pietermaritzburg – Henk and Melissa Fawell with their children Quinn and Mila. Henk is an Afrikaans Teacher at St Charles College and Melissa is a PA at Safire Insurance. They both love their jobs!

Mila is 5 and is a little princess who loves everything pretty. She’s a real little helper, and always insists on learning exactly how things work. She loves trying to do things for herself and just overflows with affection and love for the world around her (especially for her dad). Her little brother Quinn (3) loves anything with wheels and if you put a ball in his hands he’s over the moon. Quinn is an absolute mommy’s boy! As siblings do, Mila and Quinn have a love-hate relationship but always have each other’s backs. They both love books as well as cartoons. Both Grannies and Grandpas also play a huge role in their lives. “We love going to the dam as Dad is an avid fisherman. We often go to

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The kids love catching crabs in the stream in the backyard,” says Melissa. “As a mom, I love the affection I get from my kids every day. I also just love the new things they come up with. They really keep you on your toes,” says Melissa. Henk loves to be the number one man in his daughter’s life. “I love falling asleep with my daughter on my chest; it’s the best feeling ever,” he concludes.

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Everyday Life

NEW Wedgewood Shop!

this isn’t enough to persuade you to visit, while you’re there you can try out some of the latest test flavours and products and tell them if they are fantastic enough to stick around. Wedgewood Crafted Confectionery are developing new flavours all the time but go and try some of their established favourites… imagine enrobed nougat in real dark or milk chocolate, with bursts of natural mint or juicy orange, or decadent cranberries, for a pure piece of heaven. So They sell the best raw honey brought to pop along and enjoy a Wedgewood Farm you straight from the local bee keepers, Shop experience! macadamias that have been cracked and hand selected on their farm, almonds, Visit www.wedgewoodnougat.co.za to find out more or call 033 – 330 7444. apricots, cranberries and of course their Angels biscuits, which are sold as ‘Fallen Angels’ (bakery seconds), with a ridiculous WIN A HAMPER! Bring this advert when you visit the Wedgewood Farm Shop and amount of nougat in them! enter the Mum’s Mail draw there to WIN If you are a cyclist or running enthusiast one of 3 hampers valued at R500 each!

Draw closes 15th December 2018. you can even stock up on your ‘race food’ Open Monday to Friday 8am – 4pm. for your next week’s exercise or event. If Wedgewood Soft Honey Nougat is handmade slowly in the beautiful Midlands of KZN, just a stone’s throw from Hilton. The Wedgewood team would like to invite you to visit their NEW Wedgewood Farm Shop and Coffee Shop for great nougat prices, tasters, teacher’s gifts, Christmas presents, fantastic Wedgewood coffees, recipe ideas and a chance to stock up on carefully sourced natural ingredients.

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Everyday Life

Chateau Gateaux Launches New Fabric Shopping Bags When Chateau Gateaux launched their new environmentally friendly cake boxes, they made a commitment to look at other environmentally friendly alternatives they could use, without compromising on quality.

They started with simple changes, like replacing all plastic straws with cardboard ones, and replacing their paper vouchers with a new digital app. Their take away cutlery is no longer plastic, but rather, bamboo. All branded still and sparkling water bottles now come in beautiful re-usable or recyclable glass bottles. Environmental awareness is an ongoing project within the company, and the latest improvement is replacing their plastic packets with a reusable fabric bag. The challenge was to find a bag big enough to fit all their cake sizes, and they also wanted to use a local manufacturer.

Chateau Gateaux have managed to meet this challenge and have recently launched their new fabric bags – they are locally made in Durban, and are big enough to fit not one but THREE of their 24cm cakes!

These bags cost R20 each, and for each bag sold Chateau Gateaux will donate R1 to The Sunflower Fund – proving once again that Chateau Gateaux is committed to reducing their footprint on earth and supporting local causes. Chateau Gateaux is a national sponsor of The Sunflower Fund.

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The new fabric bags have been at all Chateau Gateaux stores for a number of weeks now and they can’t re-stock them fast enough!

Once the last plastic bag has left the stores, there will be no more plastic bags leaving any Chateau Gateaux Patisserie! The new bags are very strong, cutting out the need to insert a plastic base at the bottom of the bag – which means the bags can also fold up into a very small size for shoppers’ convenience.

They fold out into a large bag which is very convenient for all shopping (not just cakes), trips to the beach and book bags for school!

“We need to change the way we think and the way we shop to minimise plastic waste,” says Anna Kelly, Brand Manager at Chateau Gateaux.

Chateau Gateaux are excited to announce that they will be opening their first PMB store at Liberty Midlands Mall very soon, so watch this space!

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Everyday Life/Healthy Life

South African Parents Work Together to Raise Awareness on Car Seat Safety #CarSeatFullStop is a national car seat awareness initiative that launched in July 2016. Local mom, Mandy Lee Miller, who is a blogger and entrepreneur, began researching and learning more on car seat safety and it grew from there.

The #CarSeatFullStop goal is to create and maintain high levels of awareness of the critical importance of child safety seats in every child under the age of 12. They offer well researched, educated, responsible guidance for South African families to keep their little ones safe on our roads.

we all know somebody who is adding to that number,” says Mandy. “You have the power to save a little life. One share, seen by one person, who straps in one child, saves a life.” #CarSeatFullStop sees local parenting influencers and media sharing personal, easy-to-relate-to and -understand content, relevant to the South African market. They want to make sure that if the worst happens, you KNOW that you have done every single thing you can to keep your child, grandchild, niece or nephew, or any child you care enough for to be travelling with - as safe as they possibly can be.

As an awareness initiative, their call to action is for people to follow the campaign, The core message of #CarSeatFullStop is specifically on social media… and SHARE all that every single child in a car needs to be strapped safely into a car seat every single the content as far and wide as possible. time - no matter what.

“With statistics saying that up to 93% of South Africans aren’t strapping in their kids… “South African children are dying every day because their caregivers don’t know…” says Miller. “They don’t know that a normal car seatbelt can kill a child. They don’t know that the slightest mistake in installing their car seat or securing their child in that seat might mean that the seat won’t work…

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Healthy Life

Parenting Wisely

Taking time out when you are a parent is selfish... Or is it? As parents we often tell ourselves that our own needs are not important and our children come first – but with the significant increase in the prevalence of people struggling with mental illness, we need to start taking our emotional needs as seriously as we take our physical needs.

to understand what activities fill you up personally. This could be anything from engaging in your spirituality or a favourite hobby, to having a relaxing bath.

In order to raise healthy, well-balanced children we need to be not only physically present but also emotionally available to them. Children pay more attention to what we model through our actions than what we say; therefore if we would like our children to look after their mental health, we need to model this in our own lives.

Our mental health is vital to us as parents because without it we can’t be the quality parents we want to be. Taking time out to fill up our emotional energy and maintain our mental health is the furthest thing from being selfish. In fact it is one of the most loving things we can do for our families.

Through taking time out to fill up our own emotional energy we are able to take better control of our own emotions and therefore parent more wisely. It is important

The value of the activity is not usually about taking hours out of one’s day to enjoy ‘me time’ but being totally engaged in the activity in the maybe 20 minutes that you have.

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Healthy Life

World Antibiotic Awareness Week

World Antibiotic Awareness Week is and preparing food hygienically. • Cancel observed from 12 to 18 November. Two local the play date if your child is sick and don’t doctors give their advice below. send your sick child to school! Whilst there are some new antibiotics in development, Dr Des@Home people die every day due to minor injuries It has been reported by the World Health or simple infections that become resistant.

Organisation that the world is running out A global campaign to make people aware of of antibiotics, but what does this mean? antibiotic-resistance is held with the theme: Antibiotics are used to treat and prevent “Antibiotics - handle with care!” bacterial infections, but bacteria change

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Kids’ Life

Shopkins Season 10: Mini Packs

It has been ten seasons and four years since Shopkins first appeared on toy shelves and ever since, the brand has become one of the hottest toybox must-haves! To celebrate this important milestone, Shopkins has launched Season 10. This new season is a throwback to how it all started! Now fans can enjoy a miniature shopping experience, brought to life in a whole new way.

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For the first time, fans can unbox adorable, highly-detailed and unique packages to discover the Shopkins characters inside.

There are over 80 different Mini Packs to collect, from popcorn bags and take-out containers to shoe boxes and jelly jars. These reusable packages add another level of play for Shopkins fans, who can now store and display their favorite characters like never before.

Shopkins Season 10 Mini Packs are miniature versions of real-life supermarket items.

Think: tiny milk cartons, fruit crates, cookies, tinned corn and much more. Hiding inside each item are the most loved Shopkins characters from Seasons 1, 2 and 3. These characters are better than ever before, with the addition of a commemorative medallion These toys are for children aged 5 and up (gold, silver or bronze) ensuring that avid and are available at toy stores and retailers fans have a brand new, unique figure to add from R49.99 (RSP). to their collections.

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Kids’ Life/Party Life

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