Activities

It's time for another Christmas brainteaser!

It’s time for another Christmas brainteaser! This Friday, before you start to plan the last bits you need (only a few days to go before the big day) why not see how keen your eyes are? In this puzzle there’s a discount voucher hidden among the baubles and tinsel in this Christmas tree – can you find it? The brainteaser is accompanied by new research from voucher marketplace, Zeek.me…
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Activities

Can you spot the one doll in this sea of Christmas toys?

It’s almost Christmas! So free your mind from all that Christmas stress, put down your to do list and waste a few minutes on this graphic puzzle. Hidden among the teddies, dinosaurs, trains, cars and spaceships in this eye-popping puzzle is a solitary doll.  But where is she? The festive challenge was created by online mums’…
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Parenting Skills

How confident are you in your parenting skills?

Being a parent is hard, you have to keep your child happy, healthy, well behaved and get them to adulthood in one piece. To achieve this parents have to wear many hats: teacher, nurse, therapist, sports coach, careers officer, police, children’s entertainer, chef and that’s just to name a few. It’s the role of a lifetime, but when it comes to being all we are expected to be as parents how…
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Feeding the Family

Can your kids cook? A new report suggests they should have mastered twenty- five dishes by age eleven

Wouldn’t it be lovely if the kids could take care of meal times? London Mums would be very happy about it, wouldn’t we all… Well a new report suggests they should be able to do just that by age 11. Commissioned to launch the Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator, the research of 2,000 parents found that 25 years ago the average child could make six dishes by the age of 11 – however the…
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Schooling

Think your school run is tough? – Spare a thought for this family

Love it or loathe it, if you’re a parent there is no avoiding it. The school run is an essential part of the day and the average parent has now been found to spend nine weeks of their lives on the School Run. With winter well and truly upon us it seems parents are about to be handed a new set of problems to get their kids to school before that all important first bell. Whilst London Mums have…
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Parenting Skills

When is it time to give your child a mobile phone?

In 2016, parenting has never been so different, from exposure to issues to technology, we’ve never seen anything like it and raising kids in an unfamiliar environment can be daunting. One issue that is sure to crop up is the issue of mobile phones and more specifically when is the right time to give your child a mobile phone? In our modern world it is almost a fact of life that everyone needs…
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