Win one of three double passes to see TULLY, in cinemas from May 10! Marlo (Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron), a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a…
Win a pass for a family of 4 to the Waitomo Glowworm Caves; valued at $127! You and your family could be heading to the world-famous Waitomo Glowworm Caves! Marvel…
Families face many changes over the years, but one of the biggest has to be going from being a couple to becoming parents! If you know someone soon…
Our friend Rosie knows kids love learning, playing and most of all, winning prizes! That’s why she’s running another quiz competition. To learn the answers, kids can jump…
Win 1 of 3 Zingoshi Chronicles ‘Dragonfly’ AR enhanced books An interactive fantasy world for tween and pre-teens, ‘Planet Zingoshi’, designed to help kids become creative leaders is…
We just love Easter at Kiwi Families HQ. We like to include a bunch of activities, and story-telling, in the lead up to Easter weekend. And we try to make it…
What you see is what you get Just simple, natural goodness… That’s all! With our NEW Peanut Caramel Made Simple Wholefood Bars, what you see really is what…
Be Prepared for Life’s Little Adventures! We know that cuts, grazes, burns and blisters are par for the course for your little adventure seekers. That’s why Comvita has…
As the days get shorter, I begin to wonder how much longer we can sit out on our deck enjoying the sunshine. There’s so much of New Zealand to enjoy before we head…
MILO Cereal provides wholesome whole grain energy and fibre to help fuel kids’ inner champion. Now the cereal range has the added power of Vitamin D, to help…
After disrupting the consumer electronics industry with award-winning waterproof smartphone cases, LifeProof continues to innovate and inspire. LifeProof empowers athletes, explorers and adventurers to live life without limits.…
Spotlight’s National Craft Month, the celebration of Kiwis crafting together, is in full swing! Throughout March, Spotlight encourages knitters, crochet groups, DIY diehards and crafty kids to share…
Be into win 1 of 4 Pay Day board games! From the makers of Monopoly. Your Pay Day comes round at the end of the month. But to make it…
Most children can learn self-control if they’re given the right help. In this article we dive into learning self-control in the field of life.
Win 2 nights accommodation in Martinborough at the Grey Lynn Railway Cottage We have 3 great Martinborough accomodation prizes to give away: 1st prize is 2 consecutive nights accommodation…
Ah, the toddler… a fully mobile being with virtually no common sense! With the exception of their afternoon siesta, toddlers can be active all day long! Toddlers are…
Look, a Butterfly! is a wonderful little picture book by Yasunari Murakami. Murakami is a Japanese writer, designer and illustrator who has won many awards for his work.
When I think of ‘blended’ families, I remember what one of my counselling students said years ago. I was teaching a course on working with blended families, and she thought…
WIN the ultimate Back to School Pack from Reading Eggs, valued at $332.10! The pack includes 80 reading books, 400 colourful stickers, eight mini posters, eight activity books,…
Feed Your Monsters with Farrah’s Snack Wraps! Farrah’s Snack Wraps are perfect for children who are always on the go! The perfect size for lunchboxes, your child can…
Win 3 x family passes (two adults and two children) to see Early Man, released in cinemas from March 29 EARLY MAN is the new prehistoric comedy adventure…
Charlie and His Amazing Tales is that special kind of quirky humour in a book that appeals to thinking kids. It’s the sort of story that doesn’t dull,…
Learning about a new culture through hosting an international homestay can be a very rewarding experience, helping to enable people to understand other languages, food and customs. Find out…
Win a family pass to the Just So Festival Enter to be one of the first families ever to experience the Just So Festival here in New Zealand!…
The lovely people over at Bento Ninja sent us the Ultimate Ninja pack lunch box to review.
We have 5 sets of the Northland Rescue Helicopter adventure books to give away. Juliet to the Rescue and Lima Leaps to the Rescue bring the Northland Rescue Helicopter choppers to…
Kiwi Families resident midwife expert, Kathy Fray, breaks down the textbook version of the birthing process. But she adds in a fundamental process that all expecting Mothers need…
Win a Lansinoh and Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula prize pack for a lucky new Mum Kiwi Families has this wonderful prize pack from Lansinoh and Palmer’s containing all…
Win a copy of Bright Ideas for young minds – 70 step by step activities to do at home with your child Bright ideas for Young Minds is…
Win one of three ‘0800 What’s Up’ Colour Me In Bags from OfficeMax! Create your own ‘one of kind’ bag with this 0800 What’s Up Colour Me In…
The Department of Conservation and Toyota have teamed up to make getting into nature easy and fun with a series of Adventure and Action challenges for your kids.…
Bright ideas for Young Minds is an activity book packed full of 70 step-by-step activities you can do at home with your children for little or no money.…
Here is a really cool project you can do with your kids. The inspiration for this project comes from all the beautiful woven wall hangings you see around…
Fanny Limehead – the surprising wine with a very funny name. We thought it was timely to review a good wine product, with the long summer holiday in front…
For a lot of people, the Christmas holidays actually aren’t much fun. There are lots of reasons why, but many of them relate to stress.
Enter now to win one of two family passes (2 adults & 2 children) to Bug Lab + Auckland Zoo Opening 20 December at Auckland Zoo, Bug Lab is a blockbuster…
See New Zealand’s only gorillas … and now the country’s only orang-utans too at Orana Wildlife Park. Set in 80 hectares of spacious grounds, within 15 minutes’ drive…
Impossible Inventions is a funky and fascinating collection of ideas, plans and patents from the amazing to the downright absurd!
Christmas is fast approaching, and with it, the stress of coming up with a great, original idea of what to give your offspring for their Christmas present is…
Twins Grace and Katie have only one thing in common; they love to draw! But Grace likes her drawings to be neat and orderly, while Katie loves hers…
Reena’s Rainbow is a charmingly illustrated book about a little girl and a dog. Reena is deaf and the dog is homeless.
The New Zealand Art Activity Book is a book packed with activities to encourage children to see, think and draw like artists. This wonderful book is full of engaging…
Once upon a time there was a rabbit who had never seen a wolf, and a young wolf who had never seen a rabbit.
We were fortunate enough to try out the new Dyson Pure Hot+Cool Link Purifier Heater recently, and we were really surprised by the results!
We have 2 Ferdinand movie prize packs to give away Ferdinand tells the story of a giant bull with a big heart. After being mistaken for a dangerous beast, he…
Lucy lives in a seaside cottage in present-day Eastbourne, near Wellington. Not far away, high on a cliff, is the old Pencarrow lighthouse.
Paddy O’Melon is the story of Paddy, a young joey seperated from his mother and found and raised by an Irish family. A family who live in the…
Sleep! We all love it, we all need it and we all thrive from it. But it’s not always easy to get when you’re a parent! I know this first…
Win a Sphero star wars BB-e9 App enabled Droid worth $269.99 just in time for Christmas. There’s a new disturbance in the Force. BB-9E™ is a menacing Astromech…
NEW Remington Radiance Hair Dryer Pack RRP $159.99 Look no further for your next hit of triple infusion technology with the Remington Radiance Hair Dryer Pack. The perfect…
ENTERTAINING HAS NEVER BEEN SO EASY The silly season is just around the corner and sometimes you just need something in the freezer that makes celebrating and enjoying…
Win a tin of Goodbye Ouch Manuka Balm Goodbye Ouch Manuka Balm is packed full of soothing and therapeutic ingredients, Goodbye OUCH provides immediate relief from the ‘ouch’…
Mother Earth has added two flavours to their popular ranges, with Apple & Blackcurrant Fruit Sticks and Black Forest Baked Oaty Slice. Mother Earth Apple & Blackcurrant Fruit…
The team over at Smugglers have some super cool new packaging and brand new Gluten Free Smugglers too! To celebrate they’ve got some Smugglers Packs to give to…
We’ve been thinking about getting a pair of wireless headphones for our daughter. But I am worried about her ears. She’s not yet 5, so her very tiny ears…
Call us selfish, but my husband and I weren’t ready to stop travelling just because we had started a family. What we’ve discovered along the way is that travelling…
Can you imagine, in this day and age, a kid at school getting bullied because they were blind, or deaf. Surely not right? What about a kid getting…
Keeping Your Children Safe Online: A guide for New Zealand parents is written by John Parsons. Parsons is a cyber-safety expert, and is one of New Zealand’s leading…
‘Why does the moon change’, ‘why do clouds float’, ‘why does wind blow’, ‘Why? Why? Why?!’ is repeated incessantly by children between approximately 3-5 years old, sometimes to…
Little Truff senses something is wrong. At sea, in a boat with her family, she tugs her master to the stern. A whale’s out there. It hasn’t moved, I…
Learning comes pretty naturally to small children. Which is just as well: if learning things in infancy was treated the way learning in later life often is, they’d…
We have two copies of Keeping your children safe online – A guide for New Zealand Parents By John Parsons Our children are being raised in a society…
One lucky winner could win a copy of Chelsea Winters new book Eat Thanks to Chelsea you’ll never be short of inspiration for delicious home cooking full of…
We have 3 copies Of Lucy Goes to the lighthouse by Grant Sheehan and Illustrated by Rosalind Clark to give away. Lucy lives in a seaside cottage in…
We have 3 Countdown prize packs to give away, each including a box of Wheat Biscuits and a $20 Countdown gift card. New Zealand’s favourite healthy breakfast is now…
We have 2 NEW Blackmores Probiotics+ Kids Daily Health valued at $60! There are plenty of reasons to help keep your child’s gut in good shape, not just…
Fletcher of the Bounty by Graeme Lay is a must-read for fans of sea-faring adventures, life in the late 18th century, and the history and culture of the Pacific Islands.
As parents one of our key tasks is to help our children sleep so they can grow and flourish. In the early years, to this end we sacrifice…
With one hand holding your toddler and the other clutching the map, how many bags do you really want to be lugging around with you as you explore…
T&G GARDEN TO TABLE YOUNG GARDENER AWARDS 2017 Garden to Table and T&G are proud to be changing the way New Zealand children think about food – with…
We have 3 Mayka Toy Block Tape’ Prize packs, valued at $44.97 to give away Each prize pack includs: Mayka Toy Block Tape – 4 stud, 2mtr, RRP…
I had the pleasure of being invited along to a Seminar on Nutrition Nuts & Bolts run by Robin Piggot, Active Families Preschool Coordinator. The seminar included healthy…
Win a family pass to Butterfly Creek for these school holidays (value $85) There’s so much to see and do these school holidays at Butterfly Creek, and you…
In response to a reader comment on our Nightmares and night terrors article, Kiwi Families reached out to our Facebook community for advice. As always, we got some amazing…
The family were fortunate enough to try out the Toyota Highlander GXL recently. We took the Highlander for a weekender up to Foxton Beach, to put it through it’s…
Getting your insurance sorted can feel a bit like decluttering your home; you don’t usually feel like it, but once you’ve done it, you feel a calm sense of…
Be in to WIN 1 of 2 ‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’ super-hero prize packs to keep you laughing through the September School Holidays The pack includes: …
We know that all Dad really wants for Father’s Day, is a lie in with a newspaper and a cuppa. It’s always nice to get Dad a little…
Win a copy of Bim Bam Boom “Bim Bam Boom”, by Frédéric Stehr, is a joyful board book that celebrates the inadvertent naughtiness of toddler behaviour. It is…
With real estate prices absolutely soaring, and the average house price crashing through the $600k mark, the dream of our kids one day owning their own homes is…
We were lucky enough to get some time with Dorothy Waide, sleep consultant to the stars, AKA the Baby Whisperer. Dorothy provides newborn advice for parents on everything from…
Family fun at Snowplanet just got even better! Snowplanet are giving away 2x1hr Tubing experiences including boots for 2 lucky families (2 Adults + 2 Children). Forget the…
Fed up with being laid low by all those winter germs? Well, now’s the perfect time of year to give your body the boost it needs to get…
Most people who know me will know that I’m crazy-addicted to the TV show Vikings. It’s not for the faint-hearted, and definitely worthy of it’s R18 rating. But it’s…
I Can’t Sleep written by Stephanie Blake is a sweet story about Simon and his little brother. Simon’s little brother can’t sleep without his special blanket. Simon has…
Running a family household is hard enough without having to worry about what chemicals are leaching out of your cleaning products and into your kids. Did you know…
Soda Pop by Barbro Lindgren is a classic Swedish children’s novel that is an absurd tale from a world where anything can happen. The main characters are a…
Meet the newest member of the Farrah’s Mexican family – Farrah’s Fajita Spice Mix. Proudly made in New Zealand, and inspired by true Mexican cuisine, Farrah’s Fajita Spice…
YesYouCan have recently launched their gluten free baking mixes in New Zealand Made with premium ingredients, with light texture and full taste – you won’t believe they’re gluten…
Our family – a mother and daughter team – have been hosting international students here in New Zealand with Host Families NZ for about 4 years – too…
My son Nathan is currently 9 months old and he is loving the swim lessons at YMCA Glen Innes. I thought I would write this quick review of…
There’s a number of physical complications that pregnancy can cause. One of these is pelvic organ prolapse. This can cause swelling, bulging, lower-back, abdomen or pelvic pain, as…
Let’s talk about SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. This commonly-recurring mental illness rears its ugly head seasonally, and affects 10% of the New Zealand population.
Feel a Little written by Jenny Palmer and Illustrated by Evie Kemp is a beautifully designed book created to help and encourage kids to recognise their emotions. The…
I’ve been meaning to make a DIY blackboard cloud and lightening bolt for a kid’s room for months now. I finally found the time to make this project happen.
Supertato Run, Veggies, Run! is written by Sue Hendra. It’s sports day in the supermarket and all the veggies are in training. Everyone has been practising hard and…
Where’s my jumper? by Nicola Slater is a picture book about a character called Rudy who has lost his jumper. The story takes the reader on a journey…
We have a Russell Hobbs Impact Steam Iron to give away to one lucky winner The Russell Hobbs Impact Steam Iron transforms the way we think about the…
Ethique Ethique (pronounced Eh-tique and the French word for ‘ethical’) is a cruelty-free and certified B Corp and climate-neutral New Zealand business offering an entirely ‘solid’ beauty range…
Are you planning on travelling overseas with a young family this year? If so, then you want to arm yourself with as much advice as possible before you…