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Are You Saving For Your Kids?
New research suggests that nearly 40% of parents are saving for their kids to help them get on the property ladder. This equals over 4 million parents who will pay out, with 75% saying they …
What Are Your Kids Watching Online?
There’s an interesting article in The Daily Mail today saying that four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while one in three ten-year-olds has seen explicit material.
The statistics come from …
Why Kids Aren’t A Waste of Space
I don’t know about you but I get a bit tired of hearing how useless kids are these days. And how all they do is watch reality TV, eat junk and play computer games. It …
Are Traditional Household Skills Dying Out?
With Mother’s Day at the end of the week, a new survey has found modern mums are lacking in traditional household skills like making jam, starching a shirt and sewing. Supposedly these are dying out …
What’s Your Favourite Children’s Book?
Today is World Book Day and it’s got me thinking about all the children’s books I loved as a kid such as the Ant and Bee books (anyone remember them?) and the books that helped …
Panicking like it’s 1989…
The latest statistics on youth unemployment suggest that not only is youth unemployment as bad as it was in the 80′s, but graduates are having more trouble getting work than teenagers fighting to get a …
Why We Should All Support World Book Day
Following on from yesterday’s post about helping your kids to speak, it’s worth knowing March 1st is World Book Day in aid of Book Aid International. This brilliant charity not only increases access to books …
Safer Internet Day
Today is Safer Internet Day , which for many parents who are stumped at the pace at which technology is advancing couldn’t have come at a better time.
Recent research into Internet use by teenagers conducted …
Toddler Classes – Yes Or No?
Am I alone in my frustration with some toddler/children’s classes? Yesterday I took my 20 month old to a singing group that cost £4 (not a lot I know, but £4 is £4). For this …
Welcome to student life – now – who can tell me what APR stands for?
The first letter of the year from school landed on the mat this morning, inviting our daughter to a tutorial about Student Finance.
Something tells me it’s not going to involve reminding her to claim her …
Kids today: Can’t work, won’t work?
As youth unemployment tops one million, research from recruitment company Adecco shows that employers are beginning to believe that some youngsters are actually unemployable.
Listen to this:
“The research reveals that 73% of employers believe that a …
The Literati are Revolting
You know the cuts are biting when the great and the good take to the streets to save the libraries from being closed down.
And yesterday a group of enraged readers formed a protective cordon round …
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. 
