Carriers that allow you to carry your child on your back are enjoying a huge resurgence of interest, as parents are realising the convenience and freedom of being able to take their child out and about in the town or the country without the nuisance of having to avoid people and other obstacles with a […]
Category: Childcare
Preparing for nursery school
Sometimes it is more difficult for the parent to prepare a child for nursery school than it is for the child itself. For many parents a child attending nursery school for the first time is also the first time the mother and child are apart for any length of time. To add to the difficulty […]
Where’s Your Mama Gone? – Play addressing foster care issues
A London theatre is widening its doors to vulnerable young people by inviting them to see a new play about foster care for free of charge. The New End Theatre in Hampstead, London, has made over a hundred free tickets available to disadvantaged children in the area for its new drama. Running throughout August, Where’s […]
Whooping cough and kids
Whooping cough is medically known as Pertussis and can be deadly in infants and also cause permanent disabilities. In the 1900s many children and infants died because of the disease, but a vaccine was introduced in the 1970s and the number of deaths declined greatly. Recent studies show a reappearance of the disease in adults […]
Vulnerable Child Comic Relief Campaign
There is a new hard-hitting Comic Relief viral campaign that highlights the important role of family members who bring up vulnerable children who cannot live with their parents. The campaign features a young child from a dysfunctional family. The viewer takes the role of social worker to decide whether the child should be placed with […]
Covering the cost of the kids
A Sponsored Post For a lot of parents, the day a child moves away from home, regardless of their age, can be a day filled with both sadness and a secret sense of relief. For as much as they’ll be missed, the peace and quiet and chance to put yourself first for once could be […]
Combine work and holiday fun for the kids at the Third Door Holiday Club
Get some work done while your kids learn all about the weather this half term at [Third Door]’s Holiday Club. The Wandsworth-based flexible workspace with on-site childcare will be running a week of weather-themed activities from 25 – 29 October for children aged three to eight. Parents can either leave their children at the Third […]
How to calculate childcare costs for tax credits
If you pay for childcare, you can get extra tax credits to help with the cost of registered or approved childcare. The amount of money you can receive from tax credits will be based on your average weekly childcare costs; so it is important that you know exactly how to work out these costs. Here […]
Child Proofing Tips for the New Parent
When raising your baby, there are chances that you are ultra excited about getting cute little toys and cuddly soft toys for your little one. You love the shopping that you get to do and sometimes may go berserk buying kid blankets, clothes, caps, socks and mittens. And amidst all this some first time parents […]
Unique Childcare Solution with Letssharecare.com
www.Letssharecare.com is a new web-based service which enables parents to share childcare during school holidays, and after school. Father of two, Tejinder Gawera from Leicester came up with the idea when his own son was about to start school. “My wife and I both work full time, so we had to think about how we […]