How Can Parents with School Children Improve their Time Management Parents often complain that they don’t have time for anything else apart from work and kids. Indeed, raising kids and working in this individualised world is demanding. If you want to run a lucrative career and give your children proper […]
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Seems I’m at least five years too late to this celebrity party, probably because I don’t pay a huge amount of attention to Beyonce and Jay-Z, but this popped up as “news” today and when I read it, I couldn’t quite believe it. I had no idea it was even […]
I think I may have reached my complaints quota for the year – or possibly even the entire duration of primary school education. By nature, I am not a public complainer. I’m a British introvert and don’t like uncomfortable situations, atmospheres or rocking boats. Despite this, over the past decade […]
You’re a good parent and you’re keen to learn about the latest and greatest mobile apps, software, Internet services and online communication tools so you can keep your kids safe and secure without being seen as over-protective or overbearing. Yet you keep reading things in the mainstream media about phone […]
All Hail Father’s Day For too long, it seems, the role of fathers has been sidelined in society. Perhaps because “absent father” is a more common condition and rolls off the tongue with greater ease than “absent mother”; because of the intrinsic belief in many societies that the mother role […]
Thinking about it in the cold light of day, it’s really obvious that a parent has far less than full control over what their children are told, and yet some days there’s a particular sinking realisation of that truth. Today was a pretty crappy day for our eldest daughter. We’d […]
Parents can lose the feelings of guilt the next time their kids turn their noses up at the food prepared for them. That said, parents may ultimately be responsible – through no fault of their own – thanks to their genes. New research from University College London suggests it is […]
I feel a bit sorry for Jamie Oliver. As far as I’m concerned he’s a great chef and has some really good social ideas, such as improving school meals or giving unemployed youth a chance to get into the catering industry. However, he seems to have the “Marmite effect” on […]
Introduction Getting young children to stay in bed until the time you want them to is a challenge. It seems that gone are the days when you could sleep in until your own alarm went off – 7am at the weekend seems like a lie-in. The Gro-clock attempts to help […]
As I write this, my daughters are attending their first “pyjama day” at school. To celebrate of yesterday’s World Book Day, and in lieu of dressing up as a favourite storybook character, the kids have been allowed to go in adorned in just their PJs. How does bedtime attire celebrate […]
After a while you will think it less peculiar that I am so familiar with my family’s various clothing items. I anticipate that you won’t be surprised that I’m taking some stereotypically male approaches to (a) long-windedness and (b) ideas for improvement. Last week, as I was hanging out some of my clothes […]
had to groan (the first time) and chuckle (the second time) when over the course of two days I received a pair of identical pieces of paper, given to my daughters, proudly announcing that the school had won the Christmas Card recycling competition. That’s great! Why did you have to distribute about 100 bits […]