Fun and safe mats!

Advantages: safe, nice, easy to use
Disadvantages: may be pulled up!

...Bath time is fun time for babies! They love to play with their toys and splash around but there's always that element of worry knowing that your baby is playing in water and that the bath is very slippy so you do need to keep your baby as safe as possible. The usual bath mats work really well but they are really plain and boring looking and, from what I remember when we ewre younger, they used to go mouldy very quickly especially the white ones! I saw these Clippasafe mini bath mats and thought they looked so much nicer and decided to give them a go and see if they would work okay for us and if they would be fun for our baby too! The bath mats come in packets of 6 and they are mini which means you do need to use them all so that they are actually useful else they're just not worth it! They stick onto the bath easily and they...

lorriellah 14.09.2009 · Read review
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Beyond the mat

Advantages: An unusually frank look behind the scenes at the usually secretive WWF; in-depth looks at how wrestling affects not just the performers, but their families.
Disadvantages: The film was in production for a long time, so some footage is dated.

...A documentary about wrestling? But how can you make a factual film about something that's fake? Look closer and you will see that behind the scenes, or, if you will "Beyond The Mat", there is far more to this "sport" than meets the eye. Everyone knows that wrestling is not a "legitimate" sport, and Barry Blaustein never sets out to convince us that it is. Instead, this is a look into the inner machinations of a business that has for decades been shrouded in secrecy. Blaustein catches some phenomenal footage in his time backstage at WWF events, including the headache inducing scenario of one prospective wrestler being offered a contract purely because of his ability to vomit on demand, whilst two others put on an impressive match before a TV taping, and never hear from the Federation again. But, as many fans know, that's wrestling...

spacemonkey 12.07.2001 (08.03.2002) · Read review
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A stable for "My little pony"

Advantages: cute toy
Disadvantages: none really

...My little pony show stable. IN 1982 Hasbro toy manufactures produced a new toy it was my little pony. Ahh my little pony was every little girls dream, oh to own a pretty pony one that had pretty hair that you could style. You could dream of winning those races with them. Take them to the beauty parlour. Put the baby pony in its nappy. These ponies were really played with like a doll more than as an animal. My daughter aged about 5 when they first came out. It was not long before she entered the dream play world of my little pony. I was in the loft last week hunting out children's toys we stored from my daughters childhood playdays to give my grand children. The first my little pony was made in ?1982. The show stable produced in 1983 my daughter a sweet 5 year old loved pretty things. I can not remember if the My little...

mumsymary 28.09.2007 · Read review
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Close the Stable Door

Advantages: You don't lose any real money
Disadvantages: has a limited attention span

...Stable Masters is a game based around my favourite sport. In case you haven't guessed from the title and subject it 's all about Horse Racing. Well not just the racing that's a small but vital part of it. Initially you start with £50,000, from this you have to buy Racehorses. There is a vast selection to choose from from 2 year-olds upward. The object of the game is quite simple amass a fortune by training the winners of the major races. The training part of the game is perhaps the most important and time consuming part. You run horses in different lengths of race and try to figure out which distance of race best suits each horse you have purchased to train. This in itself is no mean feat. After each race a small amount of info is printed at the bottom of the screen to help you decide the best ground/tactics and distance for each...

donf18 24.10.2005 · Read review
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Pampers Change Mats and Bed Mats

Advantages: Disposable, protects my bed when changing baby
Disadvantages: expensive

...Previously called Care Mats, Pampers Change Mats are disposable absorbant waterproof mats with a white soft top and a lilac coloured plasticy underside. The Change Mats are 60 x 60 cm and come in packs of 12. The current cost is £5.99 per pack (checked with both Boots and Tesco). They are designed mainly to put under your baby when changing napppies but can also be used for putting under a potty when potty training, to protect your furniture when your child is playing or eating, when your child is playing without its clothes and also as a protection for your clothes when burping the baby and for protecting the bed overnight for older babies. There is a warning on the side of the package that says they should not be used for children under 12 months on a soft surface where they are unsupervised such as a cot, bed or playpen...

jlearner 12.04.2003 · Read review
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Vtech Explorer Mat

Advantages: Washable, entertaining
Disadvantages: None

...I brought this activity mat for my daughter when she was 6 months old off a friend who had two bought for her daughter for Christmas. She recommended it as she has two boys aswell and cannot always be in the same place all the time with her daughter. It has been a god send to us as when baby rolls off the mat it calls "Where's baby hiding?" which signals that baby is no longer playing on the mat and could be up to all sorts of mischeif! At first my daughter was content playing with the birds in the centre of the activity mat. You pull them down and they sing "there are three birdies in a tree" etc etc which is a very catchy tune and my daughter loves listening to it time and time again. Then there is the Ladybird on one end. You turn it around and it counts to 6 and sings another tune "counting's one of our favourite tricks 1...

loopeyuk 15.07.2008 · Read review
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Dance Mat

Advantages: it is great fun and good exercise at the same time
Disadvantages: keep reading....

...If you've ever been into an arcade, you my have seen a dancing game which is usually surrounded by loads of people- as it is fun to watch people either look great or making fools out of themselves on it! A couple of years back, they brought out this game for playstations, which you can play either using the controller or by buying the dance mat- which of course is the best and most fun option. The dance mat works just like the controller, but you use your feet rather than your hands. it is lota of fun. In order to use the mat for its specific purpose, you need to but a dancing game such as 'dancing stage euromix' these games contain different dancing sessions to up to date music with different difficulty ratings and also there are workouts you can do to burn off those calories. The dance mats are made out of a rubber...

sexy_em 08.11.2003 · Read review
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Way beyond the mat

Advantages: Easy to follow, simplistic
Disadvantages: No storyline, a lack of cinematic techniques

...When i was about eight years old i used to be an avid wrestling fan, but i stopped watchin it at about 12 years old. Lately ive been getting back into it and have become very involved again and this led me to read the biography of Mick Foley and in his book he metions the film Beyond The Mat. It was this metion that made me want ot go and buy the film, so when i finally found a copy of it i bought it. When i started to watch the film I thought that it wouldn't be able to surprise me with it's contents but to my surprise it was a fairly in depth look at the wrestling industry from the viewpoint of a lifetime fan of the sport, Barry Blaustein. The film opens with Barry sitting in front of a TV with wrestling showing on it and him describing his love for the sport. Then it dives into the details of the corporation known as the WWF...

Craggles84 11.05.2001 · Read review
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Bed Mat-ters!

Advantages: Prevents night-time accidents soiling your child's mattress
Disadvantages: Quite pricey

...My son is dry throughout the day, and is virtually dry all the way through the night, but we still have the odd ?accident?. He?s coming up to five and has decided that the pyjama pants or ?nappy knickers? as he calls them, are too babyish for him and now refuses to wear them. So looking around for a solution to the odd night-time accident led me to Pampers Bed Mats. Pampers have two similar sorts of products here ? Change Mats and Bed Mats. The main difference is the size ? the Change Mats are small enough to be put in your bag (square 60cm x 60cm) and carried around for baby changes. The Bed Mats are that much larger and have ?bed wings? to allow you to secure the mat on the bed. These were what we were after. The reason we opted for this type of product was that I didn?t particularly want to use a rubber mattress protector...

OliveOyl11 19.04.2007 · Read review
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barbie tawny stable

Advantages: my daughter being happy
Disadvantages: seems cheap and flimsy

...Barbie and Tawny was the most wanted toy last christmas and was very hard to get hold off. my daughters birthday being exactley one month before christmas her combined list was huge. this and Tawny the walking horse was at the very top so with the help of the family we finally found them for her birthday the tawny stable being bought for her from my sister. Thet set cost £20 and included barbie, tanner the dog the stable and a few little bits for me this seemed to expensive for what it is. Barbie is fine the normal standard expected but the stable seems cheap flimsy and could break very easily along with all the tiny bits which are easily lost I think the toy waas exploited and hyped up to much i'm afraid i dont think this is quite good value for money. For these reasons my daughter has to play nicely with this...

laulieboo 09.06.2007 · Read review
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