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Newcastle Gateshead In this issue Exclusive Interview with Jacqueline Wilson Weaning your baby Christmas Toy Guide Festive Events Guide Issue 03 Nov/Dec 2018 familiesonline.co.uk in this issue P3 news Welcome Hi All and a great big welcome to Winter and the Festive Season. Winter brings with it a time for rest, hibernation and quiet. Its time to think hygge – the Danish and Norwegian word for creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. We could all do with some of this as the nights get darker and the weather turns colder. But there are several holidays around the world which actually make the colder P7 P4 months a popular time for celebrations, festivals, parades, feasts and exchanging gifts. Education Family Diwali – the Festival of Light this year is celebrated on November 7th. It is a five day festival when houses and shops are decorated with candles and colourful lights. It is a family affair with feasts and gifts. People also create rangoli Matters Matters artwork which are patterns created using coloured rice or powder. May your life be as colourful, shimmering and magical as the lights of Diwali! Happy Diwali. December 6th St. Nicholas Day – in many European countries, St Nicholas Day celebrates the life of St. Nicholas of Myra, the man whose life inspired the tradition of Santa Claus. Shoes are placed outside on the eve of the 5th and a candy treat and a simple gift – like an orange appear on the morning of the 6th. Hanukkah is celebrated for 8 days each November or December, Jews light a special candle holder called a menorah to remember an ancient miracle in P10 which one day’s worth of oil burned for eight days in the temple. December 21st The Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year. People over Christmas the world celebrate with festivals and celebrations and would light bonfires and candles to coax back the sun. Christmas – people celebrate this Christian holiday by going to church, giving gifts, and sharing the day with family. It is preceded by the season of advent. Christmas day is a public holiday all over the world and is celebrated religiously by Christians and culturally by many non-Christians. New Year’s Eve is celebrated by many as a time to let go of the old year and start a fresh. P12 We like to celebrate with family and friends and fireworks to let the old year out with a Bang! What’s on & Where Whichever way you choose to celebrate we wish you and your family and friends a Merry Christmas, a Joyeux Noel, a Fröhliche Weihnachten, a Buone Feste Natalizie, a Feliz Navidad, glædelig jul, a God Jul, a Mele Kalikimaka, @FamNGMag veselé Vánoce, veselé Vianoce, Craciun Fericit, Wesołych Świąt, a feliz Natal, Mo’adim Lesimkha, Shub Naya Baras and a Happy New Year. facebook.com/FamNGMag Best Wishes Newcastle Cáit Gateshead Next issue: Jan/Feb 2019 (New Year New You and Clubs and Classes Directory) Circulation: 16,000 copies of Families NewcastleGateshead are available through nurseries, schools, libraries, selected shops and other Can you Deliver? points throughout Newcastle and Gateshead. 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The aim of the week is to Children who were doing the support schools to help children An initiative to get schoolchildren Daily Mile were significantly understand: to walk or run a mile every day healthier than those who were not. l The definition of respect leads to significant improvements According to the Daily Mile l That bullying is a behavioural in their health, according to a study. Foundation, more than 3,600 choice The Daily Mile scheme was schools worldwide have l That we can respectfully originally the brainchild of a Scottish introduced the initiative, disagree with each other i.e. Students are being head teacher who started it in 2012. including about 1,200 in we don’t have to be best encouraged to wear odd socks Researchers at Stirling England, 770 in Scotland, 210 friends or always agree with to school on Monday 12 University compared the health in Wales, 85 in Northern Ireland each other but we do have to November to show their of children at a primary school and more than 100 in the show each other respect support and raise money for a taking part in the scheme with Republic of Ireland. l That we all need to choose to good cause. those at a school that wasn’t More info at www.stir.ac.uk and respect each other, both face To get involved, visit participating. www.thedailymile.co.uk to face and online www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk Talking to Young Children About War this Remembrance Day Accordingly, you can expect simply titled ‘Poppies’ to help Remembrance Day this that there will be a great deal convey the notion of remembrance year will be on Sunday of media coverage given to this in a way that resonates with a 11 November and will be significant commemoration young audience. especially significant as it will and your child may be prompted It is a really beautiful piece mark 100 years since the original agreement to end to ask you questions. to watch and would be a great fighting during the First Discussing war with children way to introduce any discussion of then becomes a WW1 battlefield. World War in 1918, also can be quite difficult. Remembrance Day. The 2 minute The film can be viewed on known as Armistice Day. Recognising this, CBeebies has film follows a bunny who starts the CBeebies website at produced a short animation, off playing in a meadow, which www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Compulsory Relationship Can Babies Sense Stress? ten minutes later. and Sex Education Researchers then examined changes in heart function. likely to encounter. Within minutes of being At secondary school, teachers reunited, Infants of mothers will build on the foundation of in the “high-stress” condition relationships education in primary experienced matching changes school and, at the appropriate in heart rate. This stress time, extend teaching to include contagion effect grew stronger intimate relationships as well. Babies may not be able to as time passed. Relationship and health education At both primary and secondary, convey complex emotions, but “Your infant may not be will become compulsory for school pupils will learn about staying they can still feel what their able to tell you that you children from September 2020, the safe online and how to use mothers are feeling, at least seem stressed or ask you Government has announced. technology safely, responsibly when it comes to stress. what is wrong, but our work Under the proposals, all pupils will and respectfully. In a recent study, 69 mothers shows that, as soon as she is study compulsory health education Classes will also cover physical and their babies ages 12 to in your arms, she is picking and new reformed relationship health, such as the importance of 14 months had cardiovascular up on the bodily responses education in primary school, as exercise and healthy eating, as well sensors attached to them to accompanying your emotional well as and relationship and sex as the benefits of a healthy lifestyle record heart rate.