Archived: Health and Wellbeing
Breastfeeding Shock Tactics
Does this cover shock you? The Time magazine cover, which is about attachment parenting has been causing a storm all weekend with comments ranging from ‘it’s normal and beautiful’ to ‘it’s sick and wrong’. Wherever …
Do You Suffer From PMS?
At the moment I seem to have permanent PMS. I’m tired, cranky, impatient and don’t get me started on the physical symptoms. As for emotional, even an advert about Nikon cameras made me well up …
Avery Lynn’s Bucket List
I don’t know about you but ever since I have had kids, my ability to well up at every heartbreaking story seems to be on the super sensitive setting. So last night when I read …
Are You For Or Against Breastfeeding In Public?
An interesting thing happened at a session at the library this morning. Post story time, just as the kids (mostly babies and toddlers under 2) began to play, one mother started to breastfeed her baby. …
How Tired Are You?
I’m tired, are you tired? If you lived in our house, this would be a very popular daily conversation, or rather competition. My husband and I start our day with this refrain and usually end …
Does Your Child Suffer From An Allergy?
If your child suffers from asthma, eczema, a food allergy, hay fever or one of the many other types of allergy, you’re not alone. It’s predicted that allergies now affect 40-50%of the population, with the …
Storm in a D-Cup!
How juvenile are we about breasts in this country? I don’t know about you but I can’t believe the amount of comment that’s been made about the cleavage of BBC Breakfast’s new anchor woman Susanna …
Sports Relief Weekend
I don’t know about you but when it comes to Comic Relief and Sports Relief I am hooked all the way. Aside from the heart breaking stories that literally make me weep all night, I …
My New Weight Watchers/Gym Regime
As my son approaches his second birthday I feel it’s time to do something permanent about my “baby weight”. Having been constantly 14 – 20lbs overweight since his birth I have taken the bull by …
Do You Believe in Psychics?
Hands up if you believe in psychics? I’m only asking because a pregnant friend just told me she paid a psychic £75 to tell her that she was having a girl. The fact that her …
Teenagers: The Naked Truth
Did anyone watch Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth on Channel last night? If you didn’t it was a brilliant though painful step back into the teenage world. Having been a teenage agony aunt for many …
Giving up fags makes you healthy, wealthy and wise
Just when your New Year’s resolution starts to collapse into a duvet day you come across someone like Julie Parnell, who turned her 40 a day smoking habit into a small fortune.
Julie dreamed of running …
My name is Amanda, a journalist and mum of four. I have been writing about family finance since my first baby was born. I will be sharing my financial triumphs and hiccups with you and helping ensure KidStart helps you find the smartest ways to save.
I’m Anita, a mum to two under 5s, a blogger, journalist and author. I’ll be blogging about all things family related whether that’s ranting about legislation, or a general heads up about something to make family life happier and less stressful. 
