Category: Family Life

Do you need a car?

Many of us learn to drive while we are still teenagers. Living at home without any responsibilities. But, for those of us that didn’t, or that have been managing without a car up until now, it can be hard to know if you really need one or not. Car owners …

Keeping Your Kids Safe on the Latest Electrical Products

Keeping Your Kids Safe on the Latest Electrical Products These days, kids seem to spend the majority of their lives playing with or using electronic devices. While there’s undoubtedly a lot of benefits that come with technology, there’s also quite a few risks too. If your kids spend a lot …

Why Becoming a Young Parent Isn’t a Bad Thing

Why Becoming a Young Parent Isn’t a Bad Thing Worried about the perils of parenthood? You aren’t alone. With staggering figures revealing that most Brits don’t feel like they’re adults themselves until age 26, the idea of raising a child might seem a daunting and unmanageable prospect for younger people. …

Box Set Fever – our favourites from recent years

Way back when I was a twenty-something there was no such thing as a “box set”, the best I had was a video recorder I would go out for the evening and pray that the video recorder was actually recording whatever it was that was cool at the time. These …

Invitations with a difference

I think most of us have sent an invitation, thank you card or announcement at some point in our lives. Be it for a birthday party, twin graduation party invitations, university graduation invitations, or even thank you cards for graduations. You can sometimes buy them in packs from the supermarket but for …

As easy as riding a bike

We’ve recently been teaching our 6-year-old to ride a bike. What with all my operations, babies and so on we never got round to it before. We did get him a balance bike and it came out once or twice. We took him to a local car park (on a …

For my mum – the single parent

Although I am not one I was raised by a single parent. Single parents come in many guises, men, women, straight, gay, they work, they don’t, they have one child, they have many. Some single parents have an ex partner that helps shoulder the load of childcare whilst others are, …

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