Teens & Tweens: How to handle teenagers – Humour helps!
Who doesn’t feel better after a good laugh? Laughter is widely acclaimed as the best medicine for your health as well as for dealing with a difficult situation and parenting …
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9 signs it’s the end of the school year
Christmas time is always hectic. But the end of the school year brings with it a to-do list that can rival Santa’s. So. Much. To. Remember. Your head is spinning …
Humour Round-up: Posts to make you snort your tea
Welcome to the first BritMums Humour Round-up. Small people have the ability to make us laugh with their goofy antics and the things they say. They can also bring us …
Teen and Tween Round-up: SATs and snacks
It’s one of the busiest, and most stressful, times of the year for teens, tweens and their parents. With A Levels, GCSEs and Key Stage 2 SATS, there’s a lot …
Plain truth or sanitized version. What do you share?
Recently, BritMums produced a blogging survey and one of the boxes to tick in agreement was (approximately) “I feel some of my blogging peers glamorize the day to day experiences …
Teen & Tween Round-up: Alcohol & survival
Would you believe the Teen and Tween Round-up has been going for a whole two years now? That’s an awful lot of studying, sulking and gaming! GCSEs and A Levels …
Publishing a book – what I’ve learned
I’ve just published my first ever book. It’s called A modern father (…and dad blogger) and it focuses on my life as a stay at home dad. As the title …
Teen and Tween Round-up: Surviving girls and boys
These days, lots of people are into gender-neutral parenting. But, when they get to their teens, it’s clear that boys and girls are VERY different. This months we’ve got a …
Humour Round-up: Time to raise a laugh
Welcome to the first humour round-up. Before we kick off proceedings, here is a little bit about, “Why Humour!” There is no denying that parenting is an extremely challenging, hair-raising …