The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
How much do you know about your family story and your family's history? As you get older you might find that you get more of an urge to start collecting information about your family. To safeguard the history of your relatives and their stories for fu ...
It feels a bit strange talking about Christmas already, but it has a sneaky way of creeping up on us each year. Even though we know it's coming, the festive season seems to come around so quickly. There's always so much to sort and organise, but also ...
For a small child, going on a long trip for the first time can be endlessly stimulating, and endlessly dull. There will be new sights, sounds and experiences to get excited about, as well as long stretches of inactivity during which the child will hav ...
If you own your own house then you probably spend a lot of time (and money) making it look the way you want. You also most likely put a lot of thought into making your home work well for you and your family. You choose furniture based not only on how ...
Around this time of year, every year, us parents start planning for back to school. It's pretty much the same every August - working out what items of uniform the children have grown out of, getting feet measured for new school shoes, booking spaces in ...
A long road trip can be agony if you don’t have a plan in place to keep the kids occupied. They’ll get bored, and then they’ll seek to occupy themselves – often in ways that you might not appreciate. To save yourself from a nightmare that stretches fo ...
I know this is such a British thing to talk about, but I cannot believe the weather we had last week! The children and I got up and out to the park by 9 on Wednesday and it was already almost unbearably hot. We were only there for about an hour and a ...