Children in England didn’t return to school after the Christmas break. We are now living in our third lockdown and home-schooling again. When my children where much younger we were indoors for a considerable amount of time. I was struggling to get through the day to...
By the time you read this schoosl up and down the UK will have closed their doors to most of their student body. In a bid to slow down the spread of the Coronavirus and ensure key workers are available to work, their children will still have school. During this phase...
The other day my daughter was happily playing with Lego. She was proud of her creation, a tower with booby traps. She showed me how each trap worked. I was impressed. Eventually, she got bored and wanted her big bro to play. He joined in but told her the building was...
I went on to BBC 5 Live Sunday Breakfast last week to give a parent’s perspective on the findings from the report completed by Dr Charlotte Hardman (University of Liverpool) and Dr. Prabeetha Patalay (University College of London). Links were found between anxiety,...
Earlier this year I attended the London Toy Fair. It was mind-blowing the types on toys that were coming to come to the Great British High Street. Oh to be a child again. What I didn’t know at the time was that there’s a Christmas press event for toys. When the...
When the animated series PJ Mask came on the scene a few years ago, it blew our minds. Ah mean, how cool was it to have kids in PJs; fighting crime? We were looking forward to the toys, but must of them were the figures were too and the playsets were too...
