It’s the top trump card for BBC chairman Sir David Clementi. His ‘OK kids, if this behaviour doesn’t stop, I’m cancelling Christmas’. Every time the license fee is under threat or the BBC is rattled, we’re reminded that it could mean the end for CBeebies. Forget BBC One, sod the […]
Tag: childhood
Free (& Very Cheap) Summer Holidays Activities for Families
Free (& very cheap) summer holidays activities for kids & families National Play Days From street parties to group woodland explorations, National Play Days happen on Wednesday 7 August, with a host of free family activities to join in with across the country. Check out www.playday.org.uk for your nearest event […]
A Single Mum’s Guide to (Not) Dating
‘How do you date as a single mum?’ This is a question I not only get asked quite a lot, but also hear being discussed in online-single-mum-world. (Side note, online-single-mum-world deserves a much less tragic moniker because it’s actually a great place to hang out.) I’ve been listening to Alright […]
Surviving the School Holidays as a Single Parent
Today I received an email titled: ‘Single parents buckle under half-term pressure’. Something negative happening to single parents, you say? Shocking. The Equifax release detailed how the financial strain on single parent households is exacerbated during the school holidays with 1 in 5 single parents reportedly calling in sick to […]
Q: Can a Woman ‘Have it All?’
A: Some of them don’t have a choice. Earlier this week I went on Eddie Nestor’s BBC Radio London call-in show to talk about ‘supermums’ and whether women were under too much pressure to ‘have it all’. The image of a ‘supermum’ who has a successful career, a marriage, and […]
The Single Mother Project: SMILF
In The Single Mother Project I am trying to get to the bottom of the negative connotations associated with single parents, by analysing (ish) films, TV shows and books that feature single parents. The good, the bad, and the ugly will all be discussed. SMILF (2017) I started this Single Mother Project […]
The Single Mother Project: About A Boy
In The Single Mother Project I am trying to get to the bottom of the negative connotations associated with single parents, by analysing (ish) films, TV shows and books that feature single parents. The good, the bad, and the ugly will all be discussed. About A Boy (2002) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-apwoGTpi7E] Any film […]
At What Point do we Stop Calling it a ‘Sleep Regression’?
Some kids just don’t like going to bed. Jack is now two and a bit. And in those two short years, I’ve done ‘sleep training’ of some kind with him on eight separate occasions. That’s roughly every three months, except that I didn’t do it until he was 10 months, […]
Russell Brand Re:birth; Can Having a Daughter Make You a Feminist?
A: It bloody well should I went to see Russell Brand last night at the Hexagon in Reading. I’ve seen RB live a few times before, I listen to all his podcasts, regularly binge-watch Ponderland, even watch his Facebook rants on gun control etc because I do actually think he […]
13 Things My Son Will Never Understand About My Teenage Life
OK, there are a LOT of things about my teenage life that I wouldn’t share with my son, but there are also a lot of things he just couldn’t understand if he tried. They all relate to technology. Writing ‘TB’ at the end of a text message so the person […]