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Advice, tips and lifetsyle features aimed at parents, children and families.

Plan a halloween trail this year with the children

Halloween fun in the age of Covid

With different parts of the country under different lockdown rules, the idea of celebrating Halloween may seem an impossibility.

But Catherine Lynch of education experts PlanBee says you can keep your children spooked out – and stay within the law.

Halloween 2020 is going to be a bit different to previous years. Groups of childrenputting their hands into several bowls of...

Levels of anxiety and depression on the rise in teenagers and children

The Social Media "Monster" and Why We Need to Tame It

There have been multiple reports over the years of rising levels of anxiety and depression in teenagers and children. What social media and COVID-19 have in common is how rapidly they spread, with a dangerous impact for humanity ranging from rising depression levels to polarisation and even loss of life. Increases in depression and suicide appeared among teens when social media exploded in...

How to choose the best birthday flowers

Is there a birthday coming up for a loved one? Are you thinking of buying flowers as a gift? This article will help you choose the best birthday flowers for your family, friends or for a loved one.

A birthday is a speical day in our life and it can often be tough to select a gift, but you can't go wrong with flowers. Which flowers are best to give on a birthday though, is another...

Top tips to help secure your space

Top tips from Yale for home security for students

When compared to other groups, students are at a higher risk of burglary thanks to a number of factors; students are often residents in houses with sub-standard security measures, and are frequently new to the areas that they are living in. These factors can often mean that students are at a higher risk of burglary than other groups.

To help reduce the risk of break-ins at your new...

New data indicates schools need more support to address online safety issues

Data indicates schools need more support to address online safety issues

New data released by the online safety organisation, UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC), ranks 14,000 schools’ performances on online safety, indicating that more support is required in many parts of the country.

It shows thousands of schools across England are have not yet engaged with appropriate online safety resources which can help them protect children online.

This comes...

How to run errands with your children

Parenting requires you to juggle lots of tasks at once, which is why you’re bound to pick up the art of multitasking eventually. Indeed, being a parent means finding ways to incorporate taking care of your child alongside your daily routine. Our previous post entitled ‘How to Stay Safe When Visiting the Coast, Lakes and Rivers This Summer’ highlights that the world is slowly re-opening for us...

Engagement-friendly cities in the UK

The top 10 cities to propose in the UK

For many people, asking the question at the right time and choosing the right place to do it is almost as important as the wedding day itself. If you’re planning a proposal and want to be sure that it’s everything your partner dreamed of, the new study by Purely Diamonds reveals the most engagement-friendly cities in the UK to ask that all-important question.

The Top 10 Cities for...

More than 1 in 4 people still think that the 3-month rule is about right

People think spending 3 month's salary on an engagement ring is too much

The 3-month salary rule has been a long-standing tradition which originated in America in the 1930s. It actually started out as a marketing ploy by De Beers, to get more people to buy diamond rings as businesses struggled during the Great Depression. As part of their campaign, they suggested that 1 months salary was an appropriate amount to spend on an engagement ring. The campaign was a huge...

The team that trumped to first place for the fans that cheat the most, was Arsenal FC

The Football Fans Most Likely to Cheat

When football returned to our screen after the 3-month hiatus, we all felt a sense of normality. The sport that is loved nationwide is back, giving us something to enjoy and get excited over again.

When it comes to football fans and their loyalty to their club, there’s no doubt they are as loyal as they come – but when it comes to fans and their partners, could the same be said?...

Swindon takes top spot as the most thoughtful place in the UK

Swindon is the most thoughtful community in the UK

Communities in the UK and, around the world have shown unparalleled kindness in arguably the most testing time of our generation. But is there one community in the UK that gives back the most, and is the most thoughtful?

Bloom & Wild, the UK's leading letterbox flower company have crunched the numbers and identified which communities in the UK are the most thoughtful. By...

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