Parental Choice
Parental Choice is the essential “one stop shop” to help you make the right decision on your childcare needs. All the senior staff at Parental Choice are parents and we live the good, the bad and the ugly of trying to combine work and family just like you.
Latest Posts
Surviving the summer holidays
It’s almost here, every working parent’s worst nightmare, the summer holidays!!! Those three words strike dread and fear into the hearts of working parents everywhere. Just how do you get through them unscathed? With the average annual school holidays being three times the annual leave that a full time working parent is entitled to take there is a big gap to … [Read More...]
Toddler water safety
The recent tragic news about that 5 year old Chloe Johnson who drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Sharm-el-Sheik highlights just how dangerous water can be for young children.Safe and Sound Paedeatric First Aid Training(www.safeandsound.uk.net) have written this article aimed at keeping young children water safe. Each year millions of Brits go abroad for their … [Read More...]
An appeal from Working Families..
An appeal from Working Families... Just text WFAM10 £3/£5/£10 to 70070 to donate today.Did you know that there are over 700,000 families in the UK right now bringing up disabled children? And over a quarter of those are not in paid work, because most of them have had to give up work to care for their child? Can you imagine what it's like trying to … [Read More...]
The Children’s Food Trust
Nutritionist Tricia Mucavele leads the Children’s Food Trust’s Eat Better, Start Better programme Are you an always, a sometimes or a never? I’m talking, of course, about sitting at the table to eat as a family. Recent research from the Journal of Epidemiology and Child Health looked at the eating habits of almost 2,400 children in south London. On … [Read More...]
Guilt free kids dinners….
Kate Finch is the founder and owner of Juniors Pantry (http://www.juniorspantry.co.uk/). She is also a wife and mum to two girls aged ten and eight. I went to talk to her about her business and how she balances work and family. Up until late 2010 Kate worked in the city and had done for many years. She was never a stay at home mum and employed a nanny to help … [Read More...]
