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Dads Warning About New Style Fruitshoot
A man Known as Spike has taken to social media to warn others about Robinson’s fruit shoots’
“Warning to all parents.
My son has always been a fan of Robinson’s fruitshoots.
Recently they have rebranded changing from the classic purple bottle with blue lid to the new purple with green lid.
Since the old one is no longer available we obviously purchased the new one for my son.
Ever since then my son has been getting sent bouts of nausea and being sick. It’s also put him off his food as a result of this.
Please be careful. They have changed some of their ingredients and the following apply:
What can too much niacin do to you?
Reactions range from flushing, itching, nervousness and headaches to intestinal cramps, nausea, and diarrhea. High doses of niacin can cause liver toxicity; doses in excess of 3 grams a day should be used only under careful medical supervision (for example, in the treatment of high cholesterol).
Are there side effects to taking biotin?
Symptoms of biotin deficiency include hair loss, dry skin, a scaly rash around the eyes or mouth, dry eyes, fatigue, and depression. Many people take biotin supplements in hopes of treating hair loss, cradle cap in infants, and brittle nails.
Please monitor your children and be aware. My son will no longer be drinking fruitshoots anymore as a result of this”.
Many others commented on the post and said that their children have also had a bad reaction to the seemingly harmless child friendly drink, however others stated that any person or child can have reactions to anything and that some people are just extra sensitive and it won’t happen to everyone just a small miniority.
Have you tried the new style fruit shoots? Did your child have a reaction? Let us know in the comments
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Mini Egg Warning-Parents Take Note
You’ve all seen the warnings about cutting up grapes before giving them to your children, a lot of schools even place notes in packed lunches if they are not cut the correct way and the meme of how to prepare grapes is forever shared across social media.
With Easter coming up I want to warn you all about another deadly choking hazard, one that tragically took away my child.
It has been just short of three years since my precious little girl Sophie passed away she had choked on a mini egg and I was unable to dislodged it, even with back slaps and pushing up and under her ribs, I had done a first aid course only six months prior to this event so all the techniques to help a choking child were still fresh in my mind but it didn’t help, I watched the light slip away from my babies eyes, I tried in vain to save her.
Sophie was 5 1/2 so not a tiny tot yet this seemingly harmless treat took my angel away.
If your children enjoy these chocolate treats please watch them extra close and remind them to sit down whilst eating them or avoid them altogether.
Since Sophie’s passing I have seen many other parents posting into “mum groups”or their personal Facebook timelines saying their child had also choked on mini eggs, please parents be careful I would hate to know another child had been harmed by these Easter treats, if just one person reads this and watches their toddler, child or teen extra close when eating these my daughter’s death will not be in vain, I would love to have them removed from the shelves but I know this will not happen, but getting parents to be extra vigilant is the best I can do, please watch your babies.
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Ivy-Louise Deserves A Chance At Life
Mums advice are desperate to try to help this little girl and her amazing family.
Ivy-Louise is a 15 month old little girl from Ackworth, West Yorkshire. Who’s been diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma cancer. Ivy-Louise requires a vaccine in the USA which costs £200,000 to cure her cancer.
The Bradley Lowery foundation have got involved to help raise the money needed. This was the same Cancer that Bradley had.
To donate text IVYL01 £amount to 70070 or click on the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/thebradleyloweryfoundation/ivy-louise
Lots of fundraising events are planned locally to Ackworth West Yorkshire and the family are looking for raffle and auction prizes is anyone has anything at all please message her page. If anyone has contact with any local well-known people please could you contact them and ask if they could come along to one of Ivy’s events.
The local press are all getting involved to raise the money Ivy needs. Many thanks for reading this
#TEAMIVY 🎗
https://m.facebook.com/Ivy-Louise-Fight-Against-Neuroblastoma-171153133508307/
How often do you buy yourself a magazine or a bottle of wine? Just £5 could mean the world to this family and give this little girl a chance at life, if you aren’ able to donate or want to help more, please share this post, let’s get this little fighter the treatment she needs.
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Mobile Phone Charging Warning-Beware
Are you guilty of charging mobile devices overnight? Do you ever charge your phone and put it under your pillow, or in bed with you, whilst you sleep? DON’T! Whilst charging, devices heat up. It’s crucial that the heat is allowed to escape from the device to avoid it overheating and catching fire. By putting it in a hot place – such as under your pillow or in your bed – it prevents the escape of heat, and increases the risk of fire.
Avoid charging your devices at night – if you have to, put them on a hard surface such as a bedside table or chest of drawers – not on a carpeted floor.
If you have older children who use ipads or phones before they go to bed remove the devices from their rooms, children will often fall asleep holding onto phones or tablets, make it a habit to charge devices in a safe place and ensure you don’t over load sockets with too any plugs.
The rate of deaths through fires from charging devices has increased vastly over the last five years, especially as many people use their phones as alarm clocks so have them close to the bed, you can buy an alarm clock relatively cheap and it is a far safer option.
Please share this article to raise awareness and prevent more unnecessary deaths from happening
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Diet Coke Drinkers Beware You May Be Risking Your Life
Trace Lively has taken to social media to warn others of the dangers of drinking diet coke.
“For years I’ve been a Diet Coke drinker. I love the stuff, it’s like crack to me. What I really didn’t know was it was trying to kill me. I’ve always read it’s bad for you….blah blah blah, but it was my only crutch. I thought I can eat healthy, work out, meditate and still drink this stuff. I WAS SO VERY VERY WRONG!
If you have an aneurysm, sitting there in your brain, you can live your whole life and it may never burst, and most likely you would never know it was there. Nobody ever does. Drinking Diet Coke is like putting down a welcome mat for these little bastards. It’s poison slowly weakening your veins and sucking potassium out of your system. A weaken vein means BOOM! You strain too much on the loo, have too much stress, sit down too much, stand too much and that little bastard finally pops.

Diet Coke Drinkers Beware You May Be Risking Your Life I have another very small one still in there, and you can bet your sweet asteroids you’ll NEVER see me drink another diet drink again. I also wouldn’t drink the high sugar ones either. I am a bloody miracle. The Dr.’s were very concerned in those first few days that I was not going to make it, BUT I AM MAKING IT!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE IT UP!!! NOTHING is worth this. This doesn’t mean Diet Coke caused my aneurysm, but it sure as heck made it welcome. Get addiction help if you can’t quit. I am not kidding. Please listen to me. Stop putting poison into your body, because if you’re reading this it means I love you. Please feel free to share.
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Warning Burglars Tricks In The Snow
Burglars tricks in the snow.
So you may have awoke to a beautiful white landscape, you’ve woken the children and got them wrapped up lovely and warm ready for school.
After dropping your children off you head on to your own work, a day or hard graft but at least you’re in the warm.
Once work has ended you collect your children from the child minder and make your way home for a nice hot drink and to get changed into something more comfortable.
But as you head up your drive way you can see the front door is open, walking into your home you see an utter state, clothes, books and paper work just scattered everywhere, the children’s rooms have been ransacked and their games consoles taken, your grandmas jewellery which isn’t worth much financially but means so much to you emotionally has been taken.
Once all that has sunk in you contact the police, they don’t rush out as it’s not an emergency so you sit round your neighbour’s house waiting for them to arrive.
The police arrive and take a look around the police officer says they see more burglaries in the snow, but how?, burglars don’t tend to plan to far in advance most are opportunists.
When you leave your home in the snow you are telling everyone that you have left with your footprints facing one way, the police advised that before you head off for the day to walk up and down the drive or path a couple of times.
I wish I had known this as maybe I wouldn’t have been targeted and my children wouldn’t be so fearful being in their own home, it’s a simple mistake and could happen to anyone but when just one set of footprints you are telling potential thieves that no one is home.
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Victor of Dibley Actress Sadly Passed Away
Very sad news just in.
Actress Emma Chambers has died aged 53.

The British performa was best known for her role playing the lovable Alice Tinker on the BBC’s The Vicar of Dibley.
A statement from her agency said Chambers died from natural causes and that she would be “greatly missed”.
The statement read: “Emma created a wealth of characters and an immense body of work. She brought laughter and joy to many”.
All our love and well wishes go to her family and friends at this heartbreaking time.
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Shocking Children’s Book Explains Where Babies Come From!
When Katherine Pick started reading a book with her 8 year old daughter in the doctor’s surgery she did not expect it open such a large can of worms!
Katherine shared her experience on Facebook check out her post below.
“Well!!! That doctor’s surgery visit took a surprising twist!….
Adem picked up this innocent enough looking book “Mummy Laid an Egg!”. (Haha, aren’t us mummies clever!!)
All began routinely enough, with ‘sugar and spice and all things nice’ and such, but I was ill prepared for the most sudden U-Turn on Page 6, where we’re introduced to Daddy’s friendly looking ‘seed pods’!
No holds barred on Pages 8 and 9 either, where apparently ‘this fits in here…’ (sounds easy enough) and then what can only be described as a child-friendly Kama Sutra guide ensues on Page 10! Aerial acrobatics, fetish clown outfits and space hoppers (fun times!)
To say Ayla (8) showed a sudden interest in the ‘silly baby book’, is an understatement! 😆 Cue the 4 billion questions I hadn’t planned answering today.”

What do you think of this children’s book?
Would you be happy for your children to read it?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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I Had To Choose Which Child To Keep
I had to choose which child to keep
I can only be a good parent to one of my two child and this kills me inside.
I have two children Shane who Is 13 and Chloe who is 3, I love them both so much.
Shane has always been a hand full, playing truant from school, hanging around with the wrong crowd and getting up to mischief, Shane was always so angry and quick to fly into a temper.
I have had the school, police and social services involved to try to control and calm Shane down and trying to teach me ways to deal with him.
Shane did have some good traits he dotted on his little sister always hugging her and playing with her, I never once thought he would hurt her, yes he had slapped me on a number of occasions but Chloe was his favourite person in the whole world.
Shane was already in his 4th secondary school after being excluded from others, just after Halloween I received a call from Shane’s new school.
It had been brought to a teacher’s attention that my son had been boasting to his friends that when he got home he was going to rape and drown his sister in the bath.
I will never know if he meant it or whether he was just showing off in front of everyone.
I wasn’t prepared to take that chance, I had no control of him, at the age of 13 he was bigger and stronger than me, had he tried to hurt Chloe I would have had little power to stop him.
I handed my first-born child over to the local authority to protect my youngest child.
Not a day goes by where I don’t feel ashamed and guilty, Shane won’t speak to me, the last thing he said to me before he cut contact was “you picked her over me, if you thought I was gonna hurt her why didn’t you give her up”.
I had to make a choice my violent son whom I loved but had failed or my innocent daughter.
Did I make the right choice, my daughter would have been loved by any family had I given her up, but my son needed me.
I don’t think I’ll ever come to terms with my decision but I did what I thought was right for my daughter.
I just hope my son grows up into a decent human being and we can rekindle some sort of relationship.