Family

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

How much should we spend on engagement rings

Brits spend £250 more on eating out a year than they do on engagement rings

How much should we be spending on an engagement ring - the age old question that no one knows the answer for! While many of us ponder whether we’ve spent too little, (or too much), Hatton Gardens based jeweller, Diamonds Factory has taken the time to investigate how much people are actually spending on their engagement rings for their loved ones.

It’s widely understood that an...

Leaving pets behind can be heart-breaking

Summer Pawliday! Third of Brits won’t go on holiday without their pet

Following a recent survey that shows 85% of pet parents would rather a staycation in the UK than go abroad without their pets, Lily’s Kitchen has offered it’s best tips on how and where to take pups away with them this year. This also follows statistics that show UK holiday searches and bookings are up by 1/3rd on this time last year.

Leaving pets behind can be heart-breaking, with 1...

Huge impact on weddings that would normally take place on Bank Holiday

One lost bank holiday has huge impact on weddings

This Bank Holiday Saturday, historically the busiest wedding day in the calendar: The wedding sector is worth £14.7bn every year* meaning weddings contribute more to the UK economy than live sports events and three times that of live arts and cultural events. “The wedding sector was one of the first impacted and we’re now one of the last to open,” says Nina Beer, wedding coordinator and...

Expert Reveals Interview Tips for Students Deferring University

It was recently reported that Durham University are asking students to defer until 2021, after the U-turn over A-level results and, with universities planning to take an online approach this forthcoming autumn term, many more students are considering deferring their university placement or opting out completely.

The experts at Resume.io have put together some simple yet effective...

Things to do with the kids over the holidays

Parents’ survival guide for the last two weeks of (the longest) summer

With two more weeks of what has felt like the longest summer and with a bank holiday to go, Claire Spurway (European and World Masters Indoor 60 meters champion) has partnered with Feel Good Contacts to help frazzled and frustrated parents on a budget have a stress free, screen free, fun and active few weeks with their kids.

Den and tent building

Children are naturally...

World’s first ‘Shift Your Ex’ service launches as breakups set to spike post-lockdown

An online delivery and removals platform is launching a new service where people can arrange to have their ex and their ex’s possessions moved out of their home following a breakup.

Destinations for the moving party can include their parent’s house, a friend’s house, the homewrecker’s property if applicable, or even Mars - in this instance the driver can take the moving party and...

Three in five Brits think their phone is making them stupid

A UK consumer electronics ‘e-tailer’ has discovered that three in five (63%) Brits believe their mobile phone is making them stupid.

The Big Phone Store surveyed more than 2,000 British adults to discover how modern mobile phone use has impacted people’s everyday lives.

When asked why they believe their mobile phone is making them stupid, nearly three quarters (71%) of Brits...

How can I keep my child learning over the summer?

Leonor Stjepic, chief executive of the Montessori Group, which offers education based on self-directed activity and hands-on learning in nurseries and schools, says: “With months of nursery and school closures, it’s understandable parents may be concerned about disruption in learning. However, especially in the early years, learning doesn’t have to be structured or rigid – in fact, it can be...

Seven outdoor survival skills your kids need to know

We’ve all been spending more time at home and in nature lately. The great outdoors is such a brilliant place for families, and children in particular, but would yours know how to light a fire or find safe drinking water if they got lost on a hot day? Would you even know?

“The pandemic has made a lot of parents realise that when it comes to outdoor survival tactics, our children are...

Gamers say they would rather their house was destroyed than lose their saved games

Mobile gaming publisher Kwalee has revealed exactly how important our virtual lives have become in 2020, finding that 1 in 10 gamers admit they would rather see their whole house destroyed, before losing their ‘save game data’.

The ‘save game data’ refers to the data file that allows players to pick up where they left off on any game they’re playing. Meaning that a FIFA fan can pick...

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