Book review
  • This book is Gin & Tonic for the soul

This book is Gin & Tonic for the soul

She’s 49 and she’s back! Allison Pearson’s new book How Hard Can it Be? brings character Kate Reddy to life again, and this time she’s got testosterone. Remember the book and film, I Don’t Know How She Does it?  This is the sequel. If you’re peri-menopausal and memory-challenged like the

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Stepmum or Stepmonster? How to bring up teenagers in a step family

It’s not easy being a parent, especially a parent of teenagers but if you are embarking on such a journey as a step parent then I’d say you’re in for an interesting, and at times, bumpy ride. I know because as a parent and step parent myself, I speak from the voice of experience. It is just such experiences, along

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  • Does Your Teen Have An Internet Addiction?
  • Does Your Teen Have An Internet Addiction?
  • Does Your Teen Have An Internet Addiction?

Does Your Teen Have An Internet Addiction?

Addiction is a scary word for parents. We have four children, Ben (18), Gabriel (15), Jessica (13) and Noah (7) and I’m not sure if anything would scare me more than finding out one of them had a drug addiction. I was a teen in the Grange Hill generation of

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Five Go Gluten Free: A review

Five Go Gluten Free: A review

Did you receive it or buy it? Anyone who’s unlucky enough to have had IBS, celiac (coeliac) disease or a persistent bloaty belly and has decided to no longer eat wheat, will have received this book ‘Enid Blyton Five Go Gluten Free’. They’ll get it for Christmas or Hanukkah, and

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