Parenting

5 tips for how to stretch Child Benefit

Never one to shy away from a potentially controversial topic, I want to have a chat about Child Benefit today. Child benefit is something that has been called into question over the last few months, what with all the finger…

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Parenting

The Princess and the feminist.

Last week a celebrity launched a big public complaint about how British Airways shouldn’t be using the word Princess in their advertising. It is a bad image to portray to girls and was used to describe girls as a general…

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Parenting

Moulded by mummy no more

“Toby is going to be so jealous of her LelliKellies. You know that don’t you? We’re due for a meltdown”. The words I said to my husband when we brought Edith her first pair of mermaid-shit-on-my-feet sparkly abominations otherwise known…

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