Make savings on your childcare costs
Going back to work after having a baby can be a hard decision. Do you go back full time or part time, will your employer let you alter your working hours to do the school run and what will you do for childcare?
New Year is the perfect time to refresh your outlook and provide motivation for positive change.
It’s a great time to put action next to your plans, and if you’re single and hoping to meet someone special that will no doubt involve getting familiar with the dating game!
Children these days know technology like no other. Just give a toddler a phone or tablet and, somehow, they know how to work their way around it effortlessly. This has its pros and cons, and that’s another article altogether!
The question is, however, should we buy children Kindles, iPads and other tablets?
If you’re serious about being healthier in 2014, and have made a promise to make sure that your family will have its five a day (fruits and veg, that is), then a great way to start the day is with a smoothie.
All those fruit and veg that you can never get the kids to enjoy can be ‘hidden’ in a yummy berry oat smoothie. Watch this video to get some tips from top chef Gee Charman:
The days of life-long careers may be over – it’s increasingly uncommon these days for a person to stay in exactly the same job for their whole life.
Many people prefer to build up a set of transferrable skills and move between industries over the years. But making a career change can still be a nerve-racking decision.
If I had a pound for every time someone told me how tiring parenting is, or how much hard work it must be to juggle working with raising a family, I’d be quids in. The truth is, everything has it’s challenges, but that doesn’t mean it is an impossible task – and parenting is no different. It really does not always have to be a stressful job.
From the beginning of September 2013, the government introduced new rules enabling employers to offer contracts allow workers to trade their employment rights in return for shares.
With the dawn of a new year, many people start making changes in their lives – new job, new body, new home, new attitude…and divorce, according to research.
If you’re facing the possibility of being a single mother, you’ll be thinking about a lot of things – your finances will probably be somewhere high on that list. Watch the following video to find out how you can prepare yourself financially for becoming a single parent:
Smoking is usually somewhere at the top of New Year’s resolutions. If you want to quit but don’t know if you can really break the habit this time, here are some tips to help:
With schools starting back next week, many children will start school in January.
If you’ve been struggling to get them mentally prepared for the experience, this video will help:
What’s worse than having a job that you hate, makes you miserable, barely pays the bills and with colleagues that you can’t stand? Not much really, but knowing all these things and still doing nothing about it comes a very close second.
Licia Ronzulli, MEP to the EU Parliament, recently made the news after bringing her young daughter to a vote at Strasbourg. Debate raged on every side as to whether we should celebrate or condone her actions.
The new year just started and there is nothing like being able to set yourself new goals. Whether it’s to lose weight, start a business, find a new job, quit your job…everyone has something they want to achieve.
However, by mid-February, most people will realise that their motivation and drive for success has died and the rest of the year seems to simmer down.
It’s time to take stock: is your family really benefitting from you working from home?
It’s easy to get buried in the needs of your work when you work at home. A little bit of planning, however, can go a long way towards making working at home a wonderful experience for all. Your family is why you decided to work at home, so don’t let the stresses and demands of work put a dampener on that.
With the Christmas holidays and time off for the new year, many of us start taking stock of our lives and the changes we want and need to make. One of those is how much junk and/or information we are bombarded with.
If your house is anything like mine, you’ll probably get at least one letter a month to the ‘homeowner’ that’s packed with offers for broadband, flyers for supermarket chains and more requested information you have not requested.
