Articles Tagged: blogger

Blog of the Week: Northern Mum

By Sally Whittle, May 8, 2012

Ask most parents what they wish for, and the answer will be that we want our children to be happy and healthy. It’s unimaginably hard to think of young children being ill, and needing surgery. But that’s what happened to Jane of Northern Mum

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Blog of the Week: Muddling Along Mummy

By Sally Whittle, Apr 30, 2012

Blogging can be cathartic in lots of ways, but one of the greatest things about blogging is having a good old rant and finding out if the world agrees with you! That’s what inspired Hannah Brewer to start her blog, Muddling Along

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Blog of the Week: Daddacool

By Sally Whittle, Apr 23, 2012

The popular image of parent blogging is a new mum, using her blog to chart daily life with young children. But as it happens – gasp – a significant chunk of parent bloggers are in fact dads!

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Blog of the Week: Freckles Family

By Sally Whittle, Mar 15, 2012

There are lots of reasons why people start blogs. Sometimes they're inspired to share a hobby, or to meet like-minded people online. Often, bloggers want to record precious memories. For Cara, her blog at Freckles Family is a combination of all three.

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Blog of the Week: The Boy and Me

By Sally Whittle, Mar 5, 2012

One of the potential downsides of blogging is that you can end up losing some of your privacy. Many parents who write will know the feeling of starting to tell a friend a hilarious story, only for them to reply, "Yeah, I know, I read it on your blog."

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Blog of the Week: Playing by the Book

By Sally Whittle, Feb 27, 2012

For some women, motherhood comes as a shock. Zoe Toft was one of those women. Having spent much of her working life in universities, working with technology, being faced with entertaining a baby all day was something of a challenge.

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Blog of the Week: Frugal Family

By Sally Whittle, Feb 10, 2012

If you’re looking to reduce your family’s spending in 2012, then head over to Frugal Family, a blog dedicated to one family’s experience of saving money every day.

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Blog of the Week: Slugs on the Refrigerator

By Sally Whittle, Feb 3, 2012

Being made redundant can feel like the end of the world, but for one blogging mum, it signalled the start of a brand new career. Kat Gold was made redundant from her job as a civil servant while she was pregnant with her third child, in 2011.

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