Finding the perfect gifts for your child can be a real challenge. Particularly if you feel like they already have a lot, and you don’t want to give them the impression that life is all about material things. Give them an adventure as a gift instead – just pair it with a small gift to […]
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Dad’s Taxi
As a parent, you will undoubtedly understand the term “Dad’s Taxi” or “Mum’s Taxi”. In some cases, it could even be “Gran’s Taxi”. You get what I’m saying here though – yes? Of course you do. It’s the fact that as parents to our ever more demanding off-spring we tend to find our selves running around […]
Keyboard Warriors – Are We Raising A Generation Of Bullies?
Last night I experienced something I hadn’t experienced before. Initially, it made me laugh, but then I thought about it and the funny side soon wore off. You see I was doing an Instagram Live (not something I do a lot) while I was shaving my head (I know – I’m just crazy) and someone […]
Why Are Teenagers Committing Suicide Over On-Line Bullying
Today logged on to Twitter for my morning peruse on the view of the world through the eyes of those that tweet about it. It was the usual mix of news, sport, satire and happy clapper celebrities with their shameless self-promotion. Then I came across this from Jeremy Vine: The girl who was the face […]
Parents – Teach Your Kids to Cook
Not long ago our usually excellent (by that I mean distinctly average) meal planning plunged to a new depths. You know those days when all plans unravel and change. Well, on one such day I came home from work, just after 5pm, and was greeted with having to whip up a meal for the 6 […]
Labour pledges infant class size cap
Labour pledges infant class size cap I find this an incredulous promise from a political party who seem to be promising to deliver a lot that they failed to deliver when they were last in government. My opinion is that class sizes aren’t the issue – failing apps are the issue. We moved from an […]