Yesterday my husband and I took our two boys aged 3.5 and 16 months along to Bloom Family Festival for the day. While the weather started out rather…
Over the next few weeks there will be a myriad of emotions at the school gate. Tears glistening in the eyes struggling to be held back, excitement with…
The Lobster is a new and improved Me Too – and while I think my Me Too is great, I love my Lobster so much more!
I trialled the Mountain Buggy +one. It is a buggy built for one or two children. When configured for two kids, one sits behind the other. The other options are…
Official Kiwi Families review by Rochelle Gribble Let’s be clear about this- I ♥ my Mountain Buggy Urban Elite. Sure, it’s a 2008 model but it’s done me proud and…
I’m liking Sturdy fabric on the outside, my bag is pretty old now, but besides a bit of staining on the front where bubs likes to chew on…
The set up Here’s the honest truth: I judged a book by its cover. I am into teen fiction with the best of them and I can do…
The Set Up The premise is this: What would you make of Facebook if you stumbled upon it in 1996 and it told you your future. And that’s…
I’m Liking: How light and soft it is. I like that it is easy to put on, and to get the baby into it. I found for my…
I’m liking Generally, I thought it was comfortable, easy to put on and adjust, and it has the little safety loops in case the buckles came undone. It…
I’m liking My little one was right at home in the Nature Sway front pack. And it definitely seems like its nice and roomy for baby (and way…
I’m liking… I really liked this pack. The material is lovely and soft (and organic) and I found it really easy to adjust. My baby sat on her…
I’m Liking: I like the idea very much. A piece of kit that allows you to transport your sleeping baby from the house, car seat, buggy, bed, hammock…
The Set up The Moai can be used as either a sling or a front carrier and different components of the Moai are used for different configurations. We’re…
I’m liking: I liked the idea. I liked being able to hold a fussy baby and also do some of the other things that needed doing around the…
I’m liking They’re small and easy to carry around- you can fold them up and pop them in your bag. Slings in a range of fabrics and there…
I’m Liking: How light it is. That it’s a simple straightforward design. Reasonably comfortable with a 9lb baby. The big smile that came from my nephew when we…
I’m liking A well-priced carrier, this has some nice features, like a little pocket on the belt- just the right size for your keys and phone etc. It’s…
I’m Liking: How quick and easy it is to put on. I have it in organic denim and love it! It is for front and back use. It…
I’m liking… I found it comfortable, easy to put on and adjust, and also has the safety loops in case the buckles come undone. I liked the roomy…
I’m liking… This is a comfortable, supportive front pack. The canvas fabric was strong and felt like it would wear well. The pack has a zip which extends…
I’m Liking: I am a HUGE fan of the Moby wrap, I have it in 5 different colours. I have used it almost exclusively with newborns for the…
I’m liking: The fabric was soft and comfortable, with the weight being distributed over both shoulders, and the hips, so the wrap didn’t dig in anywhere.
I’m liking The Moby wrap is made of lovely, soft fabric and you can also get it organic fabrics. There are some beautiful designs available.
I’m liking I love my Manduca, and both my kids have spent countless hours in it. It is well designed for both mums and babies, and supports your…
I’m liking I was fortunate enough to try out a newly released organic BlackLine Manduca in RadicalRed colouring. It looks fabulous and has many great features.
The Kozy Carrier is a modern version of the Asian Mei Tai, otherwise known as an Asian Baby Carrier (ABC). With wide padded shoulder straps, a padded curved…
I’m liking Super lightweight and portable, this carrier offers endless possibilities for carrying and tying. I tried my baby on the front, and toddler on the back, and…
The Kozy Carrier is a modern version of the Asian Mei Tai, otherwise known as an Asian Baby Carrier (ABC). With wide padded shoulder straps, a padded curved…
I’m Liking: How this product managed to partially change my opinion of it. I have never been a Baby Bjorn fan, the baby always hung off my shoulders,…
I’m Liking: Liking? I LOVE IT! A lighter and less bulky version of the Moby wrap (of which I am a huge fan). This wrap has a front…
Maria Gill always knew that she was going to write a book but didn’t expect to end up writing non-fiction for children. Over the years, she’s found a…
I’m liking These bags are a good length… the new style bags are a couple of centimetres longer than the older style ones and it seems like they…
I’m liking This sleep sac has a number of features that I really like:
I’m liking A gorgeous kiwi-made sleep sack, soft and snuggly. I loved popping my little one into it, knowing that he would be warm throughout the night no…
I’m liking This sleep sack has two layers of merino which means that it’s nice and snuggly. It’s a gorgeous colour (I tried one of the raspberry bag)…
I’m liking This is an attractive sleep sack. The colour way is gender neutral so could easily be passed down from child to child. It feels soft and…
I’m Liking I’m liking that the Baby Bundle is a sleeping bag that keeps my child nice and warm regardless of where they are. It stays on and…
Things always seem to pick up pace this time of year. It’s back to school; back into routine; and back into our usual habits. As the kids head…
The New Year is well and truely upon us and the kids have trundled off to the school-yard. Curricular-a-plenty will be firing up, to fill your kid’s brains with who-knows-what.…
It goes a little something like this: Start with a great breakfast, chase kids ’til lunch, grab something quick to eat, kids again through til 4 when hunger…
It’s that time again when parents are reminded by relentless advertising on TV that its is time to get their children ready to return to school. I meet…
So the kids are heading back to school- what about the under fives? The “right” childcare option would have to be one of the most difficult choices for…
Money, routine, lunches, childcare and peace are the words at the forefront for the solo parents I spoke to.
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand’s most well-known children’s writers and the Joy Cowley Collection is a selection of 15 of her best books- plus an audio…
Who hasn’t been amazed by a Ripley’s story or two? Their 2012 Annual is full of the kind of stories we’ve come to know and love from Ripley’s.…
Do you know a student who struggles with essay writing? Write That Essay: High School Edition meets the needs of novice and developing writers and is a great…
If you’ve read our reviews, you’ll know that the Mokopuna Cocoono merino sleeping bag is a fab product. It’s made from top quality New Zealand merino and is…
Does your family love board games? We’ve got two copies of the 2011 New Zealand Games Association Boardgame Design Award winner- Toppletree to give away. A smart construction…
Got a child who finds back to school stressful? We’re giving away a bottle of Gaiakids Calm Restore Daily Drops which help calm nervousness, restlessness and agitation and…
MOTAT is New Zealand’s largest transport, technology and social history museum. Spread across 40 acres from its Victorian Villiage to the award-winning Avitaion Display Hall, MOTAT will take…
Got a child’s birthday party coming up? Here’s an AWESOME prize… The Southern Cross Hotel in Wellington, possibly the most family-friendly venue in New Zealand, is giving away…
This book became my parenting lifeline for a few critical years when my children were young. It was so helpful that I bought and gave away dozens of…
In my eyes Bloom festival couldn’t be in a better location. Matakana Country Park is just an hour north of central Auckland, and just two kilometres north of…
In the Disney comedy, BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA, a pampered pooch named Chloe (voice of DREW BARRYMORE) finds herself accidentally lost in the mean streets of Mexico without a…
In this update of Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Brendan Fraser will portray a geologist who, with his teenage son, discovers a message hidden…
The story follows two NASA trained chimpanzees; Lucy (a well trained, disciplined, typical “company woman”) and Ham (a classic good-natured goofball) who have to forego their usual comforts…
All the loveable characters are back — Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins — in…
Fantasy and reality collide when a hotel handy man, Skeeter Bronson (played by Adam Sandler) reluctantly agrees to look after his niece and nephew in order to help…
Bolt, a German Shepherd, has lived his whole life as the star of a television show. When he winds up stranded in his trailer in the Nevada desert,…
Igor is a playfully irreverent comedy that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented…
An unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.
Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, raucous laughter aplenty and gallons of mouth-watering soup. But a terrible accident…
An orphaned brother and sister hide their dog in a vacant hotel, which soon becomes a place for nine other dogs who have been abandoned. The brother is…
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?
Alvin, Simon, Theodore… A shameless reprise or bringing an animated treasure to a new generation? 80s toon ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ cracks the big screen with Jason Lee…
Elina, heroine of the Fairytopia films tells her friend Bibble the story of Flutterfield, a faraway kingdom populated by fairies with butterfly wings. Henna, the evil butterfly fairy…
The characters of C.S. Lewis’s timeless fantasy come to life once again in this newest installment of the “Chronicles of Narnia” series, in which the Pevensie siblings are…
The follow-up to the action hit “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne.
The genius that is Dr. Seuss has had his fair share of sabotaging (with the recent live action ‘The Grinch’ and ‘The Cat In The Hat’)… now Horton…
It’s 1957 and Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and his friend Mac (Ray Winstone) find their situation compromised in the Roswell desert when soviet agents, led by psychic Irana…
Po the Panda (Jack Black), a lowly waiter in a noodle restaurant, is a kung fu fanatic whose shape doesn’t exactly lend itself to kung fu fighting. In…
Based on the children’s book by Wendy Orr, a kind of updated Robinson Crusoe tale. Nim’s Island is an exotic and adventurous place ruled by a young girl’s…
A fantasy film based on the best-selling book series, with an array of magical creatures including Brownies, Boggarts, Goblins and Faeries. Peculiar things start to happen the moment…
Filmed in Wellywood, and The South Island™, this is a distinctly Scottish tale about a lonely boy called Angus who discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a mythical…
On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé…
Wish granted! Soar away on a magic carpet ride of non-stop laughs and thrills in one of the most spectacular adventures of all time! Now meticulously restored and…
This enchanting tale begins in Paris, when a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to her family a family of adorable high-society cats. But when Edgar,…
17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early. In this long-time favorite, eccentric inventor Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) turns a DeLorean into a…
A great love story. Reflecting an age of innocence and a time of wonder, no film better captures the pure magic of Disney than BAMBI – the world’s…
The magic of love comes alive in this spirited animated version of one of the most beautiful stories ever told, an enchanting fairy tale that will transport your…
Tom Hanks won rave reviews for his Oscar nominated performance (1988, Best Actor) as a twelve-year-old boy trapped inside a thirty-year-old body in director Penny Marhsall’s winning comedy.
Life is a journey. Enjoy the trip. After taking moviegoers magically into the realm of toys, bugs, monsters, fish and superheroes, the masterful storytellers and technical wizards at…
The most fantasmagorical musical entertainment in the history of everything! Let your imagination take flight with one of the most wonderful family films of all time! Dick Van…
The greatest love story every told (1957 reissue) Disney’s animated version of the beloved children’s tale about a gentle-hearted girl who attends the palace ball, where she meets…
The one…the Only…The FABULOUS When a slow stork finally delivers Mrs. Jumbo’s pint-sized baby elephant, he’s the talk of the circus. But with a pair of oversized ears,…
A little lost alien, three million light years away from home. A lonely ten-year old boy willing to take him home. Two lives changed by a timeless adventure…
Grab shell dude! From the Academy Award-winning creators of Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., it’s time to dive into FINDING NEMO – a hilarious adventure that takes you…
Unlock your imagination. Award-winning stars Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) bring to life the story of a man who awakened the world’s imagination, and…
There are worlds beyond our own – the compass will show the way. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in a parallel world where people’s…
WARNING: May Cause Toe-Tapping. In the cold land of Antarctica, the Emperor Penguins each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their…
Save The Day From the Academy Award-winning creators of “Toy Story”, “Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo,” comes this hilarious action-packed animated adventure about superheroes. Bob Parr used to…
It came from outer space! Something huge is on the horizon. Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth…
The most delightful characters in a dog’s age! Generations of fans have fallen in love with Walt Disney’s 15th animated masterpiece – an irresistable song-filled adventure about Lady,…
Life’s greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life. “There is more to be seen than has EVER been seen” with Disney’s crowning achievement -…
Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy. Disney’s under the sea classic: Overflowing with colourful characters and award-winning music, Disney’s THE LITTLE…
See It Again and Again with that Supercalifragilistic Music! [re-release Australia 1976] With the stirring openings strains of its Oscar -winning score and first glimpse of London from…
You Won’t Believe Your Eye. From the Academy Award-winning creators of Toy Story, comes the hilarious, monster-sized hit that has captured the hearts of critics and fans around…
A ghoulish tale with wicked humour & stunning animation. This delightfully different festive fantasy opens the door to an intriguing new world – where extraordinary surprises and captivating,…
Brilliant animation, clever new characters and fun original songs bring an imaginative twist to the magical tale of the loving toy-maker Geppetto and his puppet Pinocchio!