18 HRS AGO - When it comes to giving your children pocket money, how much is too much and should they have to do housework to earn the cash? Parents on social media have been debating just this Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Tim Fleming and his wife were inspired to become foster carers after hearing his dad Terry's story of being fostered by Barnardo's 80 years ago - now they want to encourage others to foster too Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Advertisement feature in association with Feel I peed in a glass jam jar this morning and took a test. The test was to look for high levels of follicle-stimulating hormone, which gets high when oestrogen levels are low. Oestrogen levels drop when you’re heading into menopause. The test was positive. It was a bit of an odd moment for me to be honest, because on the one hand the test looked very much like a pregnancy test, but then it represents basically the opposite. It inevitably got me thinking about the day, 26 years ago, when I did do a pregnancy test for the first time, and everything that has come since. It could also explain the ongoing midlife unravelling. It couldn’t have been better timed if I’d planned it for a… The post 5 things I loved and 2 things I wish I’d known as a young mum appeared first on Slummy single mummy. 5 things I loved and 2 things I wish I’d known as a young mum was first posted on May 14, 2021 at 10:14 am. Collapse

07/05/2021 - How okay is it to go somewhere for a night away just to have more Deliveroo options? I ask this in a purely rhetorical sense, because I’ve already done it, and it was amazing. It’s one of the downsides of living in an otherwise very lovely part of the country – that when you want a takeaway your choice is limited primarily to pizzas, kebabs, curries and Chinese food. That’s not to say I wouldn’t happily eat all of those things, but sometimes what you really want is just to have some sashimi delivered to your door. When Your Apartment offered me and Belle a night in one of their serviced apartments in Bristol then, our first thought wasn’t ‘oh how lovely, the chance to enjoy the culture of a… The post Your Apartment Bristol – one night + four takeaways appeared first on Slummy single mummy. Your Apartment Bristol – one night + four takeaways was first posted on May 7, 2021 at 8:06 pm. Collapse

07/05/2021 - Advertisement feature in association with The Singing Zoo When Joey has a baby, (same chubby cheeks, less hair), he went through a phase of absolutely LOVING the song ‘If you’re happy and you know it.’ I would push him along in the pram, doing our coronavirus laps of the park, being sure not to risk arrest by sitting on a bench, and I would sing him songs. His favourite bit about ‘If you’re happy and you know it’ was ‘stamp your feet’. I’d be singing, building up to the stamping your feet bit, and when I said it I’d jump up and down and he would be BESIDE HIMSELF. Honestly, he loved it. I had totally forgotten about it until I listened to The Singing Zoo today and it popped… The post The Singing Zoo appeared first on Slummy single mummy. The Singing Zoo was first posted on May 7, 2021 at 10:46 am. Collapse

05/05/2021 - A man exhausted from hearing his neighbour's baby cry constantly wrote them a note, asking the couple to stop bringing their new baby outside, and it unsurprisingly caused a row Collapse