Articles Tagged: cost

What should you do when your child wants to give up a sport, hobby or instrument?

By Heidi Scrimgeour, May 24, 2012

Your child begs and pleads to be allowed to learn how to play the piano or to take up a new sport, and you happily indulge their enthusiasm, shelling out a small fortune for all the necessary kit, only for your budding Olympian or concert pianist to fall spectacularly out of love with it, begging and pleading to be allowed to give it up.

Why are family days out so expensive?

By Marianne Kavanagh, May 22, 2012

It's time to punctuate the school holidays with a few family days out. But I'm strangely reluctant to go anywhere at all. I think I've been scarred by the past.

When siblings crash the party

By Donna White, Apr 24, 2012

The soft play is booked, the face painter organised and the invitations have gone out. My son's 6th birthday party is causing much excitement in our house. There's just one niggling worry, as I go about the preparations.

Teachers' union claims school meal portions are getting smaller

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Apr 3, 2012

School children are apparently going hungry because school meals are getting smaller.

How much? The cost of a degree

By Glynis Kozma, Mar 14, 2012

Will the rise in tuition fees prevent your child from going to university? As parents we are used to dipping our hands in our pockets and paying for our children. But have you thought about the cost of university?

Surviving Teenagers: Buying a new mobile phone

By Marianne Kavanagh, Mar 12, 2012

We've just been out to buy my daughter a new phone. She's 17. She cares about how it looks as well as about what it does. (To be fair, we can't afford to buy a phone for her that does very much at all. No internet connection, for example. So it needs to look OK.)

Childcare bills of 2k a month and parents falling into debt in order to work

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Feb 27, 2012

A survey by the charity Daycare Trust has revealed a sharp rise in the average cost of nursery care in Britain for youngsters under two.

England football strip binned after just eight matches: Will you buy your child a new kit for £70?

By parentdish.co.uk, Feb 16, 2012

The England football team is getting a brand new strip, just eight matches after the last one was launched, and the news is not going down well with parents