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The kitchen can be a busy place, with members of the family passing in and out of it all day, every day. While the kitchen should be the heart of the home, more often than not everyone’s busy lifestyle can mean that the kitchen doesn’t get used in the way it could be. The kitchen should be a place of enjoyment and somewhere to socialise with your most loved ones, so here’s a few suggestions...

Research has revealed that almost a quarter (23%) of UK parents with children in school between the ages of 5 and 15 would be willing to spend an extra 2-10% more on their home, if it meant that they could live in a catchment area. This means that some parents are willing to spend as much as £17,000 more on their home to ensure that live close by to a school where their children will receive a...

Driving is one of the most dangerous activities, yet it is something that the majority of us do in everyday life. Taking the right precautions to ensure that your child is safe whilst you’re driving is absolutely essential. Credo Asset Finance, a company who provide car finance, Norwich outline the most important factors to consider so that your child remains safe at all times in the car...

You can’t restrict your child’s curiosity. If you have a toddler stumbling around the house, then it’ll be only natural for them to want to get familiar with their surroundings, and touch everything and anything to get a feel for what is available to them. Children are naturally inquisitive but aren’t fully aware of the dangers of electricity. With your children growing up in the...

The son is heading off on a 20km trek. Three weeks ago, we got a letter with the essential kit, which didn’t come to the top of my volcano of priorities until the end of last week, leaving a mere five days to find the compromise between the ‘nooooooo’ trainers which will enable the son to walk 20km without his feet rubbing up a storm and the must-have plimsolls with all the foot support...

Have a bit of a dilemma which I wanted to ask other mums about. My father passed away at the weekend and his funeral is in 2 weeks time. My 4 year old daughter adored her grandad and understandably is having a hard time accepting that he is no longer here. We have told her that grandad is now with the stars with her nanny and she looks up at the stars each night to say goodbye. Has anyone else had...

In conversation with the Wales News Agency, Natalie Cox claims that her two-year-old daughter started using the F-word after an episode of Peppa Pig. According to her mum, Kiannah apparently picked up the bad habit from an episode of Peppa Pig where Daddy Pig refers to Mrs Gazelle's old band The Rocking Gazelles. The Welsh mum-of-four insists it sounds like f***ing and wants the DVD to be...

When Hector Cruz’s wife gave birth to the couple’s first child, Hector came face to face with the problems many breastfeeding mums have to deal with, including “negative reactions and lack of public support.” Worried by what he found, the American dad embarked on a national campaign Project Breastfeeding to “de-stigmatise breastfeeding in public, to educate men, and to empower women to...

Holidays with youngsters are pretty stressful without any added pressure. Unfortunately, when on a family ski holiday, a couple received a pretty nasty letter under their hotel door in relation to their baby daughter. The letter which was posted on Dad on the Run blog said that the parents should have left their baby at home. It went on to read: " Thank you for bringing a screaming baby to a ski...

When Brooklyn Andrews was three years old, her father, Tony Andrews, gave her and her two siblings a teddy bear each before he left to serve in Iraq. Each bear was very special because whenever a button on it was pressed you could hear the father’s voice saying: “Courtney, Brooklyn and Jessy, I love you all.” Tony tragically died in 2006 while at work so the children only had the bears to...