Being a freelancer is an excellent option for anybody who loves to write. Academic freelancing, in particular, can be quite lucrative. If you enjoy academic writing, you’re not afraid to crank out a good paper; you understand your citation formats,…
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If you’ve been a student or are presently studying, you’ll understand the pressures of academic essays and deadlines. Given the chance and the assurance of not getting caught, most people would likely get someone else to do it. A recent…
Don’t be fooled by the air of respectability – more and more middle-class parents now get up to all sorts of illegal activity after putting the children to bed. Charlotte Edwardes on the new face of Britain’s drug problem This…
This week it was revealed that a number of rape victims have had their payouts cut by the Criminal Injury Compensation Authority after being told their drinking was a ‘contributing factor’ to the attacks. Inevitably, the story has provoked fierce…
Where does one start? Never having ?blogged? or, indeed every actually read a blog ? something I realised when I sat down to write this ? it?s difficult to know where to begin. A brief biog perhaps, or just straight…
Parents of 5-year-olds are to be sent official warning letters if their child is found to be obese, as part of a national programme to weigh children in schools. Ministers are bracing themselves for charges that they will stigmatise fat…
Nurseries will get improved outdoor play areas, computers and expanded indoor areas thanks to a ?642 million cash boost. The money will also help improve the quality and capacity of childcare in the Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) sector and…
After more than 16 years bringing up her children, an unemployed grandmother from Penkridge, Staffordshire, says getting a job has given her family a better quality of life. A lone parent, 52-year-old Christine Dawson has brought up her three daughters…
It’s Monday. 11.30. My mobile rings. “Hello, it’s nursery, Little Sister has been sick.” My poor baby. She’s only ever been sick once before and I’m not with her. “Please can you pick her up straight away.” I’m in the…
It?s an exciting week for Big Girl (BG) as she?s starting junior school. We?ve been getting ready for this event for several weeks, or at least shopping for the occasion: new uniform; rucksack (instead of a book bag); and her…
It’s the end of the holidays but before school starts on Tuesday there’s an inset day (or bugs day as Big Girl, my eldest, once mistakenly referred to it). This is the first of five days spread over the year…
Part of being a working mum is feeling guilty about leaving your children in someone else’s care. For me the worst time by far is in the school summer holidays. This stems partly from a dim but happy recollection of…
Hmmm – interesting. having your cake and eating it?! A MYTH I must say. Been a working mum for 11 years – 3 children; 4 – if u count the husband. I feel like I’m living on the edge, about…
Poor Little Sister has had a tough week as her best friend at nursery, Meg, is on holiday. “Meg didn’t come to school today,” she solemnly informed me at pick-up on Monday. (She calls her nursery ‘school’ to be like…
I never thought juggling work and childcare would be easy but the last 12 months have been a challenge. A year ago I was living in London. The local infant school offered 8am-6pm wrap-around care and had an on-site day…
Bono?s daughter Jordan was the target of a ?4million kidnap plot, a new book claims. Five Irish criminals staked out the rock star?s mansion in Dublin for six months. Jordan was just four at the time of the 1994 plot….
One in 10 schoolchildren has seen a fellow pupil being attacked with a weapon in the past year. And nearly one in seven youngsters has seen another child carrying a weapon such as a knife or air pistol, a survey…
A single mother who took a stand against America?s biggest record companies over music piracy was fined $220,000 (?108,000) yesterday. Jammie Thomas, a Native American from Minnesota, is one of 26,000 people whom the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)…
A new pushachair is selling in the US for a stomping ?1,700 price tags, and it’s tipped to be one for the dads. The gadget-heavy – and father-friendly – Roddler promises to be the coolest pushchair on wheels, asit aims…
Apparently, one in six children skip breakfast in the mornings, preferring instead to spend some ?413m on corner-shop tucker…so…Kelogs have decided this week to launch their breakfast club awards for 2007/8. With a prize fund of ?10,000, the company will…