• What parents should know about Pokemon Go

What parents should know about Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is the latest craze, allowing the player to find Pokemon creatures and capture them in his or her area using a mobile phone. A brilliant tangle of App wizardry and GPS, Pokemon Go is being taken up by millions of kids and big kids (i.e. adults). The game works like

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  • Are you always driving your teenage around? TV pilot is casting

Are you always driving your teenage around? TV pilot is casting

TV pilot is looking for families who drive their big kids to lots of places.

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Bullying: What can parents do?

Bullying. Nothing’s worse than learning that your child is being bullied. What can we as parents do to prevent it? How can you support your kid, especially as when they get older the levels of peril they face and the ways in which they handle them can result in serious harm?

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  • Bring back the 80s? Were our younger days really better than our kids’?
  • Bring back the 80s? Were our younger days really better than our kids’?

Bring back the 80s? Were our younger days really better than our kids’?

With our kids in exam mode we can see that they work much harder at school these days just to keep up. Today we have a guest post from my friends at MyTutorWeb comparing our time at school with theirs. Anyone who has been through the ordeal of trying to

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  • Parenting Teens: Go the F*** to Sleep

Parenting Teens: Go the F*** to Sleep

Recently I was reminded of a brilliant book, which, while shining a light of one of the most irritating parts of early-years parenting, currently resonates with me as the parent of a 17 year old.  Go The F**k to Sleep written by Adam Mansbach, is a children’s book for adults

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  • Should I get my kid a card? Valentine’s Day and how to get your kid through

Should I get my kid a card? Valentine’s Day and how to get your kid through

Parenting wisdom for Valentine’s Day 1) Thinking of getting your kid a Valentine’s card just in case? Resist! Resist! Resist!  If they find out, they’ll throw furniture across the room or sulk for a week 2) Show them that you care in a different way 3) Start by sharing your

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  • Parenting Teens?  I’m making it up as I go along

Parenting Teens? I’m making it up as I go along

Hello, my name is Rachel. I live in Bedfordshire and I am the mother of a seventeen year old.  There are days when I have no idea how that happened.  I think I blinked and missed it. If I ever meet Dr Miriam Stoppard she and I will have words

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The indignity of it all

When you have kids, things you would never previously have entertained as being something that a decent human being should have to tolerate on a daily basis become par for the course, endlessly repeated until you are a shred of your former self. These are the undignified things that should

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My life is an enigma

My son just told me he didn’t want me writing about him anymore, so I said; “There goes the money for your iPhone contract then,” and here I am again, with his blessing. At least he expressed himself in a full sentence. I’ve got used to decoding his speech lately,

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Ridiculous Behavior

Ridiculous Behavior

She comes home late.  She’s up until times I didn’t know existed.  She sleeps until 20 minutes before she has to go work (which is 2pm).  She leaves her dishes all around the house.  She waits until she has six loads of laundry before she’ll do her wash.  She comes

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