The BritMums Blog

Andrea Kirkby is a freelance writer who specialises in business, travel and culture coverage. In addition to her degree in English, she also has a degree in opera, edits the Campaign for Real Ale newsletter and writes frequently about hiking and pilgrimage trails. Here, she tackles an issue for parents when travelling and dining out [...]

We recently saw Emma Jeffs, Norton’s Internet Safety Advocate for the UK, talking about online safety at a blogger parenting event, and she had some powerful suggestions and statistics to share. We asked her to write a guest post to share the tips and tactics with all of you, but we'd love to hear your [...]

It’s a story that has sent shockwaves through parents across the UK, and the biggest shock of all is that police have said there are no issues for them to pursue. Two boys – without padding or head gear – took part in a cage fighting match at the Greenlands Labour Club in Preston, Lancashire [...]

Mum of three Toni Hargis blogs as ‘Expat Mum’, and shares her life as a Brit raising a family in the “strange land of the US of A”. Here, as her eldest reaches a crucial milestone, Toni reflects on her years of raising children.  Having just sent my firstborn, the Queenager, off to college (sob) [...]

One minute we have a whole six weeks of good intentions and playdates groaning out in front of us, the next we’re trying to find book bags under piles of abandoned projects and wrestling early nights out of the brood. But whether tomorrow is a return to the familiar school run or the (gulp) very [...]

If the number of cookery schools catering for children is anything to go by, says Nick Wyke from Looking to Cook, we can expect the next generation to produce more than its fair share of super chefs. In fact, there are almost as many cookery schools and classes for children as there are for adults [...]

When former MI5 director and current Man Booker Prize judge, Dame Stella Rimington claimed that Twitter and mobile phones were diminishing reading, an age old debate was brought to the fore.  Speaking to the Telegraph, Rimington said: “I think much of the Twittering and emailing and texting and all that sort of stuff that children [...]