Articles Tagged: money

ASDA becomes first retailer to offer FREE folic acid to pregnant women

By Liz Stansfield, Apr 19, 2012

ASDA pharmacy is set to launch a new initiative to offer mums-to-be free folic acid alongside a healthy pregnancy guide from Tommy’s the baby charity

First time parents driven into debt preparing for new baby

By Sue Hayward, Mar 1, 2012

New parents shell out £1,370 buying kit for their first baby, which puts many into debt

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

Surviving Teenagers: What do they know about money?

By Marianne Kavanagh, Feb 6, 2012

Teenagers have a hazy idea about finance, says research from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) this week. Over 70% of 16 to 18-year-olds don't know what APR stands for. "What's APR?" I say to my 17-year-old daughter.

Cost of raising a child reaches £218,000

By Sue Hayward, Jan 25, 2012

The cost of raising a child from birth to university now costs parents over £200,000

Beyonce spends £1 million on baby Blue Ivy as poverty-stricken Greek mothers give their children away

By Keith Kendrick, Jan 12, 2012

As I was working out how to save a few pounds on my weekly shop this morning, two newspaper headlines leapt off the pages and slapped me around the face. The first read: "Children are being dumped on Greece's streets by their poverty-stricken families who cannot afford to look after them any more".

Mummy blogs

By Ursula Hirschkorn, Dec 31, 2011

Nowadays sharing the joys and sorrows of motherhood is much more high tech – and in some cases much more lucrative – thanks to the rise of mummy blogging.

Explaining spending and saving money to children

By Heidi Scrimgeour, Dec 22, 2011

In the current financial climate, how can you talk honestly to children about money without making them financially anxious? And how can we ensure youngsters don't - in the words of Oscar Wilde - end up knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing?