Teen Shoes – you can’t go wrong with Converse
She buying for your young children is pretty easy. You have them carefully fitted, and most of the shoes available to you are practical; you might opt for flashy lights or sparkly bits, and have the to-velcro-or-not-to-velcro dilemma, but on the whole it’s all okay. And then somewhere in their early teens it suddenly gets properly tricky. I can’t say confidently for girls (though I don’t recall having too many issues...
It’s skinny & quick & brill and… 5 reasons to LOVE the Asus ZenBook (the UX305CA for those who care)
I’ve talked before about a teen’s need for a decent laptop of their own. But of course, your teen isn’t the only one who doesn’t necessarily have the luxury of private space – for many of us the kitchen table isn’t just where eating and homework happen, it’s also where the banking, the shopping, a spot of while-I’m-cooking Netflixing and for an increasing amount of us, the blogging happens....
Students! Cheap travel with a Stagecoach unirider ticket!
Do you own a student who’s so intimately acquainted with the local bus routes he could reel off all the stops between home and College, or to his mates house? If so, you might want to think about a Stagecoach unirider ticket. With Stagecoach’s student bus pass, you can use it in your chosen ticket zone at anytime and anywhere – and some areas have unirider tickets for specific universities and/or colleges. Why...
Reading Festival; it’s only Fall Out Boy! Is your teen going?
This year No.1 Son turned 17. Apart from the whole “Seventeen! HOooooow is my baby so old????”-type angstyness, the age thing has also created a need for a whole raft of new parenting skills. Because the boy wants to go do stuff. On his own, for god’s sake. With no adulty-type person to make sure he doesn’t get squished by a car or snatched by danger-strangers or any of the gazillion things that might happen to...
Fancy a 2-in-1 tablet? We’ve tried the Venturer BravoWin
Most families now seem to have at least one tablet that the kids have access too – a lot of kids also have their own, of course. And tablets are pretty awesome – I completely denied they had any use for a few years when the iPad first came out, and predicted an early demise – what a stupidly unnecessary bit of kit, why do we need a tablet when we have a computer at home? Silly me. My iMac is on all day every day...
Topping Up Online – and not just for your phone credit.
If your teen (or you!) have a PAYG mobile, then you’ll be familiar with the ‘top up’ system. When your account is running low and you’re in need of a top up, you purchase additional credit at a supermarket or shop. They give you a top up voucher containing a top up voucher code, which when added will give you the calling credit of your PAYG provider. But it’s a printed receipt – and we all know how...