Archived: Safety
Are You Buying Your Child A Phone Or Tablet For Christmas?
Are you buy your kids smartphones, tablets or games consoles for Christmas? If so you’re not alone. Christmas Day 2012 likely to see more internet-connected devices given as gifts than ever before. However, there is one …
How Do You Keep Your Kids Safe?
The issue of child safety is on every parent’s mind right now thanks to a spate of terrible news stories. I know myself that the idea of keeping my kids safe has had me waking up in …
Are You Buying Your Child A Mobile?
At what age should your kids have a mobile phone? Currently 90% of 11-16 year olds have a mobile and yet friends tell me their kids, some as young as 7 years old are also …
Child Safety – We Need Your Views
What are your views on child safety? Are you a parent that sees danger at every turn? Someone who’s afraid your child will get snatched/hurt and injured wherever they are? Or do you feel that …
What To Do When A Child Chokes
Since my daughter choked on a small piece of sausage when she was 13 months old, I live in fear of one of my kids choking again. At the time without thinking I slapped her …
Driven into debt
Wasn’t it lovely to see some good news in the mass ofinancial horror all over the papers this week? So congratulations to Dave and Angie Dawes on their £101M lottery win and good luck to …
Irish Anti-Bullying Campaign
With all the shocking acts of criminality this week a particularly terrible one sticks in my mind. It’s the one of the young teenage boy who is mugged by other boys as they …
Let Kids Be Adventurous
According to a new survey 85% of children crave more adventure in their lives a stat that’s probably closer to 99% in the summer holidays.
Unfortunately the research by family plaster brand, Elastoplast, also reveals that …
The MMR debate: ‘To look for blame is to look back’
Kathryn Brown, whose daughter was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, shares her views on the MMR debate
So, will your kids be having the swine flu vaccine now?
new survey by KidStart reveals 50% of British mums and dads plan to refuse swine flu vaccine
Friends SHOULD be allowed to share childcare
what do you think about friends being told they must register as childminders to look after each other’s children?
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. 
