Christmas Carol Evening & Bazaar

Join us for a beautiful evening filled with the Christmas spirit!

Enjoy hot food and mulled wine, visit the market stalls, listen to Christmas Carols, visit Santa and take photos, enter the raffle for great prizes and play fun games.

Free entrance for everyone! Located at the new American Academy Junior School, Larnaca

The Spirit Of Christmas Is The Spirit of Giving 

LPN Christmas “Give A Gift “Appeal 

You don't have to donate money in order to help; we are appealing for affordable gift offerings that will be given to those in need as a gesture of compassion and goodwill this festive season. We are willing to take new items, homemade ones and used. Gifts should be labeled Boy/Girl with Age and can be dropped off at the designated LPN Table which will feature during the Event.

Thank you for Supporting Larnaca Parents Network

Nativity Service

The Cyprus Weekly -This Week from LPN Mum Paula Manoli Grey

The bitter pill we give our kids

Two weeks ago my son awoke with a hoarse, wheezy cough so I took him to the chemist who identified it as laryngitis. I was told that he would need corticosteroids, to which my response was that I wanted to start with a natural remedy and see how it would go. The chemist was disapproving, telling me that if it got worse my son could have trouble breathing, but gave me what I wanted; a 100% thyme syrup and eucalyptus nasal spray. A couple days later, he hadn’t got worse and the cough had turned productive (a sign he was getting better), and a week later he was perfectly fine.

The chemist was just doing his job, and another parent may have taken what he recommended without question (why would you question a qualified medical professional?), giving their child strong medication – with side effects – completely unnecessarily. Now, I am not an irresponsible mother, and if I had seen him taking a turn for the worse I would have followed up with conventional medicine. Nor am I critical or against chemists, doctors or anyone who medicates their kids, as the simple fact is, medicine saves lives and we are lucky to have it. But we are so scared of our children getting ill that at the slightest sniffle or cough we immediately jump straight to the hardcore stuff and don’t give them a chance to heal with the use of their own immune system. We also expect them to get better almost instantly, certainly within a couple of days, when in reality, these kinds of common colds and coughs need a good couple of weeks to pass.

I am fortunate to have an amazing paediatrician who always gives nature or my children’s own immune systems the chance to fight and heal first. If that doesn’t work, then she moves on to the medicated options. But from what I hear from other parents, not all doctors follow this route, which is why Cyprus is now top of the pops in Europe for dishing out antibiotics to children as though they are sweeties.

It is a vicious cycle as the children who are allowed to fight illness develop stronger immune systems to then fight subsequent illnesses, whilst those who are dosed in medication then get sick easier and more frequently as their immune system becomes compromised. It’s scary stuff and a real worry to every parent, after all, our main priority is their health and if we are told that that this is the way to do it, who are we to question it?

I am no doctor, so I don’t want anyone refusing medication for their children based on what I have written (not that I flatter myself that my words are so powerful, but I have to be sure that I am not the cause of a child suffering without medication they actually need…), but I do wish that there was more awareness on the over/misuse of medication and the harm it can do to children in the long run, and that really is a bitter pill for us to swallow.

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Cyprus natural medicine cabinet

Event Diary16-22-nov

This column first appeared in the Cyprus Weekly, 16/11/13

Keep Paula updated with News & Events : paulamanoli@hotmail.com

Soul Space Christmas Fair

Its the season of Good will to all, and in these challenging times we have decided to give something back to the community

The following things are complimentary

Admission is FREE
Prize Draw is FREE (lots of fabby prizes )
FREE kids disco with party games
FREE exciting visit from Santa on his Harley Davidson.. have your camera ready.. as you will love a picture with him on his motorbike !!!

Take a stroll around our winter wonderland of stalls, wonderful array of Christmas gifts, Christmas decorations, contemporary crafts, health & beauty gifts, baby and children products, fashion, jewelry, stocking fillers, toys, interior designs, festive food & wine and lots more!

Christmas gift stalls
Festive food & drink stalls,
Beer tent, mulled wine, festive drinks..
Exciting visit from Santa on his festive Harley Davidson - Take your own photos at no extra cost

Gifts and children products
Bouncy Castle,
Free kids disco with party games galore
Kids crafts
Face painting

Christmas Carols
Live Vocalist
Candle light Meditation for peace

LPN Christmas Give A Gift Appeal will be collecting on the Day for Charity along with any unwanted items such as Clothes & Toys.

Relax with a glass of mulled wine, food and light refreshments whilst the children play.. to complete a fabulous evening out !

If you would like to rent a table please call Drew Andreou 99656367

Christmas wreath making workshop with herbs

Event By CyHerbia

In this workshop you'll learn how to make an impressive and very fragrant Christmas wreath or table decoration with herbs and other natural materials. The workshop will take approx. 2 and a half hours, and will include tea and cake as well as all materials.

The workshops will take place on Saturday the 7th and Friday the 13th of December.
Places are limited, secure your place by clicking going AND writing on the event wall whether you are coming on Saturday the 7th or Friday the 13th.

On Saturday we start at 10.30 and finish at 13.00, on Friday we'll start at 10.00 and finish at 12.30.
Cost: 28 euros