Positive thinking is a great way to start breaking the cycle of unproductivity, and start making the most of your life. And it’s not something you have to pay a life coach to teach you, …

The ‘back to school’ rush can be a stressful and expensive time for parents – but so don’t leave everything to the last week in August.
Besides the unecessary stress of fighting your way in shoe …

If your child goes to school or nursery, there’s a good chance that you will have received one of those letters warning you to beware because a child in the building or class has been …

If you didn’t know that the World Cup kicked off on Friday then you must have been stuck in a cave somewhere. It seems that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, branding everything with the …

You can’t start too early when it comes to your children’s dental care. Though milk teeth don’t last long, their hygiene is crucial for the alignment and spacing of permanent teeth. Decay and early loss …

We’ve all heard about the benefits of organic food – fresh produce, prepared from organic produce, but what are the benefits to babies?
The benefits of organic foods
- Conventionally produced (non-organic) foods have a higher levels …

Undergoing IVF can be stressful enough – know your rights at work before you start

Undertaking IVF treatment can be an emotionally draining experience and is likely to impact on a woman’s work life due to …

According to a recent poll of British families only one i five families eat together once a week or less.  Even when families do eat together, three-quarters of them do it in front of the …

Would you let your kids play with toxic chemicals? No? So why let them play on a surface that has been cleaned with a product that contains a high level of harmful, toxic chemicals?
Chemicals in …

Laptop computers were once used mainly by harassed business people who had to work on planes or trains, but not any more. Thanks to low prices, the rise in home working and wireless internet access, …

When Which? assessed the nutritional content of items targeted at children’s lunchboxes and found that the healthy impression they gave was far from reality.
“Parents should be able to pick out healthy products for their kids’ …

If you anger easily, click away from this page now because the contents are bound to get you going.
According to a new report, the children whose mothers are employed are more likely to be:

driven …

More and more mothers are turning to cosmetic surgery to get rid of their ‘mummy tummies’, but it is all worth the expense and pain? Emma Shiggins finds out.
Celebrities are often the root of mothers’ …

If you are pregnant, you are in one of the high-risk groups for swine flu, so it is important you get as much information on it and follow the advice to protect yourself and your …

Any parent will know that babies don’t stay feather-light for ever.  So it won’t come as a surprise that after years of picking up your child from baby to post-toddler age, it can have some …

Marie Street is a working mum who lives in Surrey with her two teenage children. Her 17-year-old son, Nick, has autism. When Nick was diagnosed with autism at three-and-a-half years of age, it came as a shock to the family. Like many, Marie had heard of autism before but didn’t really know what it meant.

Four in 10 parents are calling for more support to deal with breastfeeding problems,  according to a survey from Greatvine.com, a new website offering parents individual support, by phone, direct from the country’s best parenting …

With health professionals, other mums and the media telling us that breast is best, there is the pressure to make sure we at least try to breastfeed our babies when they’re born. That’s great – …