Making Family Friendly Travel Plans...

*This post is brought to you in collaboration with Bench Africa.

When it comes to travelling as a family, how brave are you? Do you prefer to stay close to home? Do you enjoy camping? Or are you excited adventurers, challenged by distances with unusual and unique destinations in mind?


For all parents, making travel plans that are family friendly presents a highly individual undertaking. What makes a destination viable and exciting for one family, will likely be an entirely different story for another. It all comes down to your own unique personalities, family size and ages, plus the essential dynamics of cash flow, general health and your parenting levels of tolerance and resilience!

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Worlds Apart Woofy Whoops! Review. A Fun Interactive Game for Families. A Childsmart Feature...

*Six Little Hearts is a Childsmart Brand Rep.

Board games for families never grow tired. Add all the benefits modern gadgets to these age-old favourites and traditional games just get better and better.

Our latest review for Childsmart, is the hilarious Worlds Apart Woofy Whoops! It's a game that's bound to be a cult favourite with families of all ages. There's humour, suspense and technology driving its popularity and our kids can't get enough of it!

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Luna Dark Review. Enjoy the Halloween Thrills at Melbourne's Luna Park This Halloween!

Are you looking for thrilling fun this Halloween? Well Melbournites, Luna Park's Luna Dark experience is an attraction we think you may be craving!

Six Little Hearts were invited along to this exciting four day event for an exclusive peek at all the amazement. We were positively wowed by the fun to be had for families and encourage you to get yourself in on the action fast! Luna Dark is happening right now and this is one spooky event we recommend you get yourselves involved in.

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Smile with Smiggle Jewellery and Other Exciting Christmas Delights In Store... Psst! A Giveaway Too!

If you're a Smiggle fan, (and let's face it - who isn't?!), then your favourite stationery store has just got a whole lot more sensational. Whoop!

Smiggle are proud to announce a brand new range of playful and colourful jewellery for kids and ain't that just super-est exciting news for young fashionistas everywhere!

Smiggle's new Smile with Smiggle collection includes more than 150 accessories and fashion jewels to please kid-fans who already adore all the fun and excitement embodied within the Smiggle brand.

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FUN Halloween Ideas for Kids Plus WIN A Carnival Cruise for A Family of Four!

*Six Little Hearts is an Ambassador for Carnival Cruises. Collab.

Halloween is officially upon us with just over a week until the creepy fun begins for children and the child within us all!

Whether you like October 31st, love it, or are completely void of any feeling whatsoever for this occasion, kids everywhere, all undoubtedly fall into the love it camp.

What's not to enjoy where creepy costumes, scary games, giggles and tricks plus fun foods are thrown into the mix?

Outright, I'll tell you now, our own household looks forward to this creepy day all year long! 

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BRIO® Ant with Rolling Egg Review - A Childsmart Feature

*Six Little Hearts is a Childsmart Brand Rep.

For parents of young children, having beautiful and quality toys that both impress and entertain, naturally comes with the territory. It's sheer joy to decorate your child's spaces, and choosing their unique playthings is a hugely sentimental part of that fun for all parents.

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Luna Park Melbourne Review...

"Hey Kids! Wanna go and road-test Luna Park?!"

Silly question I know. (I do enjoy teasing our six little hearts at times.) After all, what child, (or adult for that matter), would not enjoy the pleasures that await during a visit to this one and only historic theme park in Melbourne's trendy suburban seaside oasis known as St Kilda?

And hey, it's a hard life being a blogger but someone has do it. Wink!

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Lonely Planet Food New Release 'From The Source' Cook Books Review and Win!

If you're a food lover, then the very latest release cook books from Lonely Planet Food are bound to make you very excited!

Owning a collection of quality cook books, which are visited time and time again for inspiration, is an absolute imperative for dedicated home chefs. Lonely Planet Food's newest releases - France and Mexico, in their popular 'From the Source' series, are a divine collection of reads that are packed with stunning images from around the world, coupled with a selection of famous cuisines to match.

The books in this series are a food-lover's dream!

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Bodies, Babies and the Real Truths About Motherhood...

*This post is brought to you in collaboration with TENA.

Trigger warning: Childbirth and medical themes.

For many women, motherhood is the greatest role in life we could ever hope to undertake. 

I am fiercely proud of being one of these women. I neither doubt this, nor question it. I just know this fact is wholly true for myself, plain and simple.

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