NetObserver®, the largest study of European internet users of its kind, conducted by Harris Interactive, today reveals the nation’s favourite websites across 9 categories, as voted by UK internet users, and Family and Parenting is one of them! The NetObserver study began in 1998, and is conducted online twice a year. It provides over 1,000 partner websites with a better understanding of user’s online behaviours and attitudes, offline behaviour and

There’s an advert running on our local radio at the moment with the line “my mother always said you should invest in good shoes and a good bed, ’cause when you’re not in one, you’re in t’other”. They were advertising beds… I’m going to focus on the other. Anyone who’s ever taken care of a child knows how important it is to find the proper baby shoes. In my search

I’m not quite sure when I last watched an episode of Sesame Street, but I’m fairly sure I was about a metre shorter and I’m definitely sure that I was at least 6 stones lighter. But I still love the Count who counts. So when I saw that Sesame Street Live was coming to town county, I was interested to see how essentially a live broadcast stage show translated onto

I saw this posted on another blog site How to be a Dad, and thought it was brilliant – had to share it with you all, please check out their site

At what age is it appropriate to talk about death with young children? I’m not talking specifically about the death of someone close, but death in general. Our 4 year old’s experience of death so far is limited to her Nanny’s dog, and to a Great Grandma she never met, so it seems quite an abstract understanding of death so far, more of absence. So the question is, how should

You know the old adage, good things come in small packages… well I’ve got another for you: Great things come in great packages. If you are looking for the perfect new-mum/new-baby gift, then look no further than Jellybox. With a large collection of luxury gifts for boys and girls of assorted ages, it’s a really interesting concept for a business, especially when the media fills us with tales of woe

Are you planning a kids party for the first time? The basics you need to know! Planning a child’s party can be overwhelming for some parents, especially if they have never planned one before. Here are five simple steps of what needs to be done with some good advice:ersHe 1. Decide how much you want to spend and try and stick to it! 2. Set a suitable date and time

Every now and then a program advertised catches my eye. This week it was the turn of Kym Marsh, the Coronation Street actress and ex-popstar, and a selection of teen mums. As Richard Desmond took over Channel 5 there was always a danger that the programming could go to pot. However the results of the survey carried out within my own house have returned a rather different view – Channel

Bill Bailey once said that Little Chefs were built where the Ley lines crossed. Potentially true, but could also be just a statistical likelihood based on the density of restaurants. Or maybe ley lines don’t exist. You choose. And I’m not sure on the ranking of chain-restaurants, past the fact that Subway have slipped into the lead against McDonalds, both in terms of number and impossibly costed deals. But for