One of our family goals this year is to spend at least 1 weekend every month as a quality time weekend with the kids exploring, adventuring and ...
Activities for Quality Family Time
5 Family Goals you Can Set This Year
It’s that time of year when everyone breaks out the New Year’s resolutions. In our family, we do the whole New Year’s resolutions things a little bit ...
Ideas to Spend Quality Family Time Together on New Year’s Eve (when you don’t go to a party)
During the winter months, we sometimes tend to morph into homebodies. New Year’s Eve parties are just not our thing, and we prefer to spend quality ...
Simple Ways to Celebrate Halloween as a Family
Once upon a time I used to go to a Halloween Ball, it started late and finished really early (or very late depending on how you looked at it). Then I ...
Best Rainy Day Movies on Netflix for Kids
Sometimes there is nothing better on a rainy day than snuggling up on the sofa with a tub of popcorn and digging into the archives on Netflix to watch ...
Spending Quality Time Together Making Memories with Hollywood Bowl
Last week I spent a day down in London talking with radio stations around the country all about Childhood Nostalgia based upon research carried out by ...
Ideas for Celebrating Easter as a Family
Can you believe that spring is almost upon us? Before you know it, we’ll be dyeing and hunting Easter eggs. Instead of focusing on the candy and ...
Jumping Fun with Groupon
It's the 3rd week of our school break this summer and already the costs are mounting up, those little things that even when you take part in a "free" ...
Top Netflix Tips for Families
So some may say we are late to the game but as a reluctant TV viewer, I would much rather be reading or crafting than watching the majority of the ...
How to Survive Camping with Kids!
I've always loved camping ever since I was a child. Especially when I was young because it gave us a lot more freedom than we ever got at home. It ...
Top 10 Tips for getting Toddlers to the Beach and Enjoying it Too!
Living close to the beach we spent a lot of time there when the kids were very young. My youngest was a few weeks old the first time we headed there ...
A Series of Unfortunate Events Read Along With Netflix
As an adult, I always try and read a book before heading to see a movie as from experience I like seeing how different the directors, writers, and ...
Family Night In
The night's are drawing in and instead of heading outside and spending time together as a family we're getting cosy and settling in the living room ...
Why to read to your child when they can read to you?
We're at the stage with J my eldest that he will happily sit and read independently any book he finds - he'll suddenly arrive book in hand and ask me ...
100 Family Adventures
Like most people, one of our year goals is to spend more time as a family; not just time but real quality time doing meaningful activities that will ...
Vacationing with Kids – James Villas
Vacationing with kids especially young kids abroad can be tricky if you are lucky then you have kids that adapt easily to what ever life throws at ...
Ideas for Creating Christmas Memories
Making Christmas Memories to last a lifetime with your kids Christmas is a time to create life long memories for your kids, remember those little ...