It’s the perfect time of year to get children out in the garden and cultivate their green fingers. Sign up for our #KidsGrowWild Challenge, and you get a free gardening starter kit for your child worth almost £25. Then get out in the garden, put it (and your kids!) to work and blog about your [...]
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Hangout – Tips from home chefs
What are your tips for bringing a good wholesome meal to the table night after ...
The day I discovered breast cancer in my family
Did you know that breast cancer can run in families? There’s been a lot being said about this in the media right now. Last week, Angelina Jolie spoke out bravely about choosing to have a double mastectomy. She’d discovered that she had a genetic fault (which can be passed down from one generation to the [...]
Announcing the BiBs finalists!
The 2013 BiB awards have been eagerly anticipated from all corners of the blogosphere, the nominations have been pouring in and at midnight on the 12th May the shutters came down and we closed up shop to start counting votes. The shortlists announced back in April included 16 bloggers in each category writers from all [...]
Wireless devices – a blessing or a curse?
Our regular dad John Adams asks this month whether we should leave the wireless devices at home when we take the kids to play? What’s your take? There’s a spot near our home that’s popular with parents who want to let their kids off the leash so they can charge off on bikes, skateboards and [...]
Craft Round-up: Felt crafts, edible delights and patchwork quilts
Well, it’s nearly June, but the weather doesn’t seem to realise that, flitting from hot sunshine to wind and rain in the blink of an eye. So I’ve been on the look out for crafts both to do indoors, and to take outdoors and some that cross-over both! Here’s what I’ve found for your perusal… [...]
Febrile Convulsions – Would you know what to do?
Would you know what to do if you woke to find your baby having a seizure in the night? Stephanie did not and so when she found her eight month old daughter convulsing in her cot she was terrified. Here Stephanie passes on her knowledge in the hope that no one may ever needs it [...]
Charity Round-up: Exercising for charity
What is the connection between taking exercise and charity? Taking part in a fitness challenge is a great way to capture potential supporters ‘ imaginations and to raise funds for good causes. Let’s start with Chloe and friends who are responding to the tragic loss of a special little boy by taking on a cycling [...]
Join the Hungry to Happy Challenge for £200 shopping or £700 for a holiday
When kids are hungry, you want to get something delicious in them – fast. Now we have the BritMums Hungry to Happy Linky Challenge that’s all about easy-to-prepare, versatile meals for kids that turn cheeky monkeys into satisfied angels in minutes. We’ve teamed up with Richmond Mini Meatballs, bite-sized pork meatballs that are quick and [...]
May 19-25 is National Epilepsy Week
May 19-25 is National Epilepsy Week. David Ford, Chief Executive of the charity Young Epilepsy, talks about the devastating effect this little known condition can have on a young person’s life. Epilepsy can affect every aspect of a young person’s life; their education, mental health and even the ability to form relationships. This would be [...]
Good Reads May: Pink lego, camper vans and twitter friendships
So here’s the thing: it’s the middle of May and I am sitting wearing a fleece over my, not inconsiderable, layers as I type. I have committed the cardinal sin of putting the heating on because even the dog is shivering. There is a very real chance that summer has been and gone for me. [...]
Special Needs Round-up: Joining forces peacefully
This month the Round-up is going to take on a completely different format. For never before have the disability and special needs bloggers, charities and journalists been so completely united by one, overwhelming subject. It has taken sleep, unleashed emotions we had hidden, or overcome, aroused anger and pain. It has upset our children, and [...]
My Best Post of the Week >> add yours!
Half term here for some, just around the corner for others and snow in Scotland!! I have to admit I put the heating back on this week we were so cold. What is wrong with our weather system? Where did Spring go? If you find it please bring it back we’re off to Devon next [...]
5 geeky tips for writing great posts
Rebecca Lee has been blogging for almost two years. Here, she shares her tech-oriented tips for getting inspired for writing posts. So you’re an old hand at blogging. You were one of the first to jump on board the online era, but as a result you are now stuck on how to keep your content [...]
Hangout with the Knackered Mother’s Wine Club
Helen McGinn writer of the Knackered Mother’s Wine Club and winner of the Fortnum & Mason Online Drink Writer award joined us to talk about her journey from blog to book and to pass on some of her top wine secrets too. Our food editor Emma Raphael and author of A Bavarian Sojourn and Sarah [...]
BritMums Live 2013
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HPMcQ: yay, well done all can't wait for june to rock on...
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Sarah Miles: I am so thrilled, a HUGE thank you for everybody'...
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Anya from Older Single Mum and The Healer: Well done everybody! Can't wait for the party! :)...
