Working parents are struggling to find childcare as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
Before the pandemic, older relatives stepped in to help around nine hours a week.
Make bedtime into an altogether more peaceful affair for everyone.
A new paper is calling for the government to take financial support for parents further.
Childcare now costs on average more than £130 per week for a part-time nursery place.
Anna Whitehouse's Flex Appeal campaign aims to get flexible working for everyone – not just parents.
Is it fair for grandparents to provide childcare for free?
A grandmother has gone online to ask if she's being unreasonable to expect her daughter to pay her for looking after her grandson.
Move over Mary Poppins!
"She was really well behaved," the professor says. "I think we all enjoyed having her energy."
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“How come she’s allowed to take the children out of school in term time?"
It's actually better for them.
Both presenters have received a backlash on social media about their childcare arrangements.
The chosen candidate will need to speak the Queen's English and adhere to some strict parenting rules
An emergency nappy changing service is being launched in the UK
New data from Childcare.co.uk has revealed the UK regions that have the highest average hourly rates for childcare services and its no surprise that childcare costs in London are higher than anywhere else in the UK. The south east is the next most expensive region in the UK for childcare, with an average hourly rate of £7.16. On the other end of the scale the east Midlands offers the cheapest childcare, at just £6.09, well below the national average.
Philip Hammond confirmed in his Budget speech that the government's new tax-free childcare scheme is set to be launched in April. So will the change leave you better off - or should you stick with your vouchers? See also: Budget 2017: What
The Government has been promising to do more to help working parents in this area for some time now and yesterday the Chancellor outlined their plans for this trickiest of parenting areas. In his budget speech Philip Hammond announced that two million households would be eligible for tax free childcare by the end of the year. Working parents of three and four year olds would be entitled to the extension of free childcare hours from the current 15 to 30 hours, later this year.
A mum is hoping to press charges after a childcare worker was allegedly caught on video breastfeeding her son without permission. The mum from North Carolina claims to have recorded the video from security footage inside her three-month-old son’s nursery. According to ABC7 the clip shows the worker adjusting her top before bringing the child to her chest to breastfeed him.
Little Ones is the brainchild of mum-of-three, Viviana Rossios, from Melbourne who came up with the idea to give parents a “well-deserved break”. Parents simply log on when they need a nanny, check which childcare providers are online and then book their caregiver of choice. “I’m a mum of three young children,” Viviana told Daily Mail Australia.
What do you mean you haven't been taking your kids to private family clubs, pushing a gender-muted buggy or teaching your little one to code? Come on, catch up! Just when you think you've got one parenting trend licked, something else comes along and renders it sooooo 2016.So will 2017 be the year we kick helicopter parenting to the kerb and become more zen while we're raising our offspring? From advances in technology to smart babygrows and super clever childcare, if you want to get ahead of the parenting curve, we've got the trends mums and dads will be embracing in 2017…What trends do you think we’ll see in childcare next year? Let us know @YahooStyleUKParents-to-be: Here's what you DON’T need to buy for your babyMum bans son's iPhone and sees his behaviour transformed. Should other parents be doing the same?
Katie Sayles, 29, an opera singer from London, has secured funding to open Katie’s House, which she hopes will be the first of many destinations for children and carers to actually want to spend time in. Little ones can head to the play area complete with a fancy dress shop, take part in a music class or have a snack from the healthy menu.
If you're planning to have children, then the chances are that you've added up the financial assistance you can get from the government, calculated the maternity pay, paternity pay and parental leave, and faced a horrible hole in your
The Relationship Distress Monitor report outlines how parenting stresses and financial pressures are leaving almost 1.4 million families at breaking point. It is also claimed that the effects of constant bickering and stresses at home have a ‘far-reaching’ impact on children, who are then more likely to fall into antisocial behaviour and crime. Dr David Marjoribanks, senior policy officer at the charity Relate, which carried out the report, said: ‘It is not just the actual breakdown of the relationship itself, it’s specifically the conflict that surrounds that.