The Way Back Home – Oliver Jeffers
Once there as a boy, and one day, he found an aeroplane in his cupboard… He didn’t remember leaving it in there, but he thought he’d take it out for a go right away. At first, all went well and the plane flew higher and higher and higher until… suddenly, with a splutter, it ran out of petrol. The boy was stuck on the moon… and he was not alone… “The Way Back Home” is a fantastic little story – just as you’d expect...
New competition – Win one of three copies of LEGO® Awesome Ideas
I have found in my long years of parenting that children come in two LEGO-types – The Free-Builders and the Planners. No.1 son was a Free-Builder. Everyone knows one – they eye a large box of bricks with barely-concealed glee, frantically grabbing for a handful and clicking them together as their brain races ahead, rummaging endlessly for just the right piece to complete the vision in their soul. The final construction...
Asus Zenpad 8.0 Z380 – if your kid watches Netflix & YouTube, they’ll love this tablet.
I never ever imagined that we would become a six-tablet household so fast (it doesn’t seem all that long ago that I remember chuntering away to Mr LittleStuff about what an utter waste of time they were. I mean – they couldn’t do anything that my Mac couldn’t, which was under my fingertips for 12hrs a day… *hollow laugh*) But each of us uses our tablets in different ways, and a tablet is only as good as...
New Competition – Win £100 Amazon Voucher with DC Kids!
I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a distinct difference in the way my youngest, Bear (unbelievably, she’s almost 9 now) chooses her entertainment. She occasionally watches TV, but she’s very selective about the shows she watches and she’s far more likely to make regular breaks in the day for catching up with her favourite YouTube channels. And I understand it – I mean, how many of us...
New Competition! Share your Parenting Hack, and win 1 of 3 Sudocrem Goody Bags – and £100!
Life hacks – we can’t get enough of them, can we? We’re all addicted to those astonishingly genius little hints and tips that make us go “oooh!” and wonder why we never knew it before. And the Internet is a brilliant place for sharing them – and finding them! My recent favourites are wetting your finger to retrieve a little dropped egg shell – instead of chasing it around the bowl through the...
Quick, closes MIDNIGHT! Win a £50 Potato Stamp Organic Cotbed Set from Fox Organic
We reviewed the Potato Stamp duvet set, and you all wanted one. Of course you did. This bedding is delicious. It’s the softest, gentlest cotton on young skin, and will make you want to never have anything else next to your sleeping child again. So we got you a cotbed set to win – but it closes at midnight, so be quick, people! The set includes one reversible 120x150cm organic cotton cot bed duvet cover (Stars on the top, Stripes...