Articles Tagged: home

Kids growing up in violent homes react to danger in same way as battlefield soldiers

By Keith Kendrick, Dec 6, 2011

Violence in families affects children’s brains as much as danger on the battlefield affects soldiers, say scientists.

Why is it always panic stations before Christmas?

By Marianne Kavanagh, Nov 25, 2011

Buying Christmas presents, ordering turkeys, stirring Christmas puddings and getting tinsel down from the loft. Because life as we know it will end on December 25.

Two toddlers have a blast covering their mum's living room in flour

By parentdish.co.uk, Nov 22, 2011

Watch the moment a horrified mum found her two toddlers had completely covered her living room in flour.

Do I have to abandon all sense of style just because I have a baby?

By Hazel Davis, Sep 28, 2011

As soon as our daughter was born, these friends and family appeared to forget how fabulously "us" bright colours and wooden magnificence are and plied us with seven piles of pastel plastic crap.

Why I won't put my children's paintings on the wall

By Emily Carlisle, Sep 19, 2011

I don't like badly crayoned pictures of me, where I've apparently got no hair and my teeth are bigger than my hands, stuck up haphazardly on walls with blu-tak and pieces of peeling Sellotape. I don't like models made of yoghurt pots, PVA glue dripping between the cracks, gracing my occasional tables. And I don't like glitter. Anywhere.

Kids and housework: Do you have a child that 'does'?

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jul 23, 2011

“Now it's the school holidays and you're home all day you are really going to have to pull your weight a bit more around the house,” I told my eight-year-old son recently, “That means,” I said, brandishing a duster for added impact, “An equal division of labour.”

Why our homes should be lived-in and loved, not immaculately arranged

By Tamsin Kelly, Jul 6, 2011

Remember when house parties used to involve cartons of wine, goings-on in the bathroom, some poor sod turning up with a traffic cone and slinking off in embarrassment'? I never thought I would, but I miss those days. Now house warming parties seem to be all about showing off - big style.

Can you ever really share childcare equally?

By Hazel Davis, Jun 30, 2011

I have it all planned out. My first baby will be born this month. My partner has four weeks paternity leave, supplemented by saved-up holiday. Then he will have Mondays and Tuesdays off work while I carry on working (from home) and he looks after the baby.