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I don’t know about you but I love online communities, whether they are about food, fashion, parenting or my very favourite – everything combined. Over my parenting years I’ve found them reassuring through pregnancy, fantastically …
Are You A Moaning Mum?
As frequent readers of this blog (and my family know), I love a good moan, usually around the whole area of motherhood, parental concerns and other parents. However, on Saturday an article The Guardian made …
Could You Go Bare-Faced?
How do you feel about make up? I LOVE the stuff. I love buying it, looking at it, and writing about it (my other job is being a beauty writer).
Ironically, although I love having it …
Is Your Man Bad At Housework?
It’s the first day of Spring and what better day then to hear about a survey on spring cleaning. Or rather on how many of us apparently spend hours redoing the household jobs that men …
Are Fairytales Bad?
Like many I have a daughter obsessed by Princesses and the whole idea of fairytales. Bedtime stories tend to be variations on Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, and DVD choices tend to be of the …
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 …
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 Your Facebook Friends Annoy You?
According to new research 85% of us find our friends annoying online. Stats from a survey by Eversave said the top three behaviours that irk are Facebook friends complaining all the time (63%) those sharing …
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 …
What’s Your Bargain Beauty Secret?
Back before I had kids I was a beauty writer and beauty addict. I couldn’t get within two metres of a beauty hall without buying something ridiculously expensive. In fact I once bought a pot …
Where Are You Going On Your Summer Hols?
Where are you going on holiday this year? If the news reports are to be believed, the next two weeks are so depressing most of us lighten the load by booking our summer holiday.
However, this …
Who’s Eaten All The Pies?
Every year, as we all know the sales come earlier and earlier and so too it seems do all the articles about dieting and detoxing. “Eaten too many mince pies?” scream the headlines. “Gained the …
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. 
