Collaborative Post¦ You’re getting married. Congratulations! Your preparation journey is a rollercoaster of emotions. You’re both hugely excited and anxious to get things right and within your budget. Making your dream wedding come true can be challenging, even if you’ve got a knack for event planning. But, have you ever considered how stressful wedding parties can be for guests?
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5 Things to do Before Moving House
Collaborative Post¦ Whether buying your first house, upsizing or relocating, moving home is an exciting time in anyone’s life – but it can also be a little stressful too.
Hopefully, you will have found a good real estate agent who will have helped you through the process of finding your new home. If you know what types of questions to ask and what answers to expect (visit https://zen.homezada.com/2021/05/02/home-buyers-what-to-discuss-with-real-estate-agent/ if you don’t), then this shouldn’t have been too demanding. But the next steps involved are often where people struggle to remain calm and composed.
So, to make the process as smooth and seamless as possible, I’ve been chatting to Joy Richards, Sleep Specialist at Happy Beds, who has recently run a survey on this exact subject. Check out the research findings and her top tips of things to do before moving home below:
Why are we putting so much pressure on ourselves?
I’m freshly jobless and have been in a somewhat pensive mood over the last few days. In a strange way, having more free time has made me reflect more on the way we use our time and the sheer amount of pressure us mums (and dads) put on ourselves. Modern life is stressful and anxiety and depression are prevalent in our society. A day doesn’t go by without me hearing someone say how stressed they feel. What would happen if we looked at things a little differently, I wonder?
The great homework debate
Yesterday, I read on Mumsnet that Gary Lineker has called for homework to be banned. He said:
‘Homework should be banned. All it does is drive a massive wedge between parents and children, because you end up having to do it for them, and it’s stressful. They get stressed and they don’t want to do it’.