#BreakingBarriers - Bathing Solutions campaign to inspire seniors to learn new skills.

I've always been close to my elderly relatives and neighbours. I love spending time with the older generation and love their wealth of interesting stories of adventures and life over the years.

Of the older generation I know the ones who have thrived and been the most happy are the ones who have thrown the saying 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks' out of the window and had the desire and drive to learn new skills, do what they want, have adventures and simply live life to the fullest.

With the number of people living longer increasing every year so that the senior generation makes up a large proportion of our population I find it sad that negative stereotypes about seniors are still commonly viewed as correct. Yes there will be some of seniors who fit into the stereotypes commonly connected old people but thanks to advances in mobility aids, innovations and progression in healthcare and improvements in the standards of living seniors seniors are being given an improved quality and length of life that enables them to live life to its fullest, do what they want and brush off the stereotypes of old grumpy people who do nothing and cannot learn any new skills.

Keeping children safe on the roads - Road Safety Quiz.

At the end of next month Bug will be the grand old age of four.

It seems as if the last four years have flown by, gone in the blink of an eye with him growing up so fast as my little baby has turned into a big boy.

Over the years we have taught him a lot of things and watched him learn so much. We have seen him learn to walk and talk, watch him master new skills such as learning to scoot and climb independently and seen and helped him develop his speech and learn things like his numbers and colours s as well as begin to master his skill of drawing and writing.

We have also been passionate about supporting his learning of skills that will help him be independent, skills that he will need to know about to live in the world especially as we won’t always be there right next to him. We have always been keen for him to develop his social skills and learn about behaving well; being nice to others and being happy to share especially share his toys with his friends.

 Another thing we have been passionate about him learning is road safety.

We believe him knowing the importance of road safety is vital and we are keen to infuse the idea and significance of road safety into his mind so that he learns from a young age how important it is for him to be safe and vigilant whilst walking, scooting or riding his bike on the road.

I remember my mum teaching me as a child the importance of road safety and the Hedgehog Road Safety campaigns of my childhood aimed at helping children understand the dangers of crossing the road safely, with the slogan “Stop. Look. Listen. Live” having resonated and stayed with me over the years.