With so many parents struggling with and/or worrying about how to entertain their children over the summer holidays, I’ve been looking back at how things used to be. How were your summer holidays spent as a child? what about you parents and grandparents?
The Summer Holiday Juggle: Tips for Manic Parents
I mean, apologies for stating the blatantly obvious BUT, where has this school year gone? I honestly feel like they only just all went back to school, there have been so few weeks of this academic year when all four have been in school due to COVID-19, I think I counted seven weeks!!!!
Conservation Crisis: The Board Game
Are you and your family into board games? This game is perfect for these wetter summer holiday days with the children that we seem to be having lots of at the moment.
Visiting Pistyll Rhaeadr: what you need to know
Pistyll Rhaeadr is a waterfall in the Berwyn Mountains, just inside Wales, west of Oswestry and Shrewsbury.
Cheap and easy creative play ideas
With Half Term here next week and the Easter school holidays fast approaching too, having a few quick, cheap and easy ideas of things to occupy the children at home can be really useful.
Stocking up the school cupboards in time for school holidays
As parents we will all be aware of our children turning into snack monsters during the school holidays. Many a time have I felt like a snack slave to my children. It can seem none stop and I can never quite get my head around how many times I am asked for a snack during […]
Limiting screen time during school holidays
A new study has revealed that, by age 7, children will have spent 2 years and 3 months of their lives in front of a screen. More than half of that time is ‘mindless’ screen time – spent without family or friends, in solitary, screen-based activities. I don’t know about you but that sounds awful […]
Drayton Manor Park is the best value-for-money family trip to a theme park this summer!
So many parents are often looking for good value days out options to share with the family. The school holidays in particular can cost parents a fortune. If you are going to shell out for a family day out somewhere, you want to know that you’ll get your monies worth. There’s nothing worse than spending […]