Creators of the mobile gaming app Pickled Onion Gang are to donate all profits from the sale of the game to help disadvantaged children in Thailand through Thai Children’s Trust, the largest UK charity focusing solely on Thailand. The Pickled Onion Gang is an intelligent app for kids on the go – a mobile app that will make a mum’s life easier during rainy days – London Mums…
How often do you see a child these days with a broken arm? Rarely I would say. By the time I was 13 I’d broken an arm and some fingers, my classmates had various proper scrapes and bumps and teeth knocked out. All of this was a normal part of growing up. But, we’d climbed every tree in the neighbourhood, could ride a bike brilliantly by the age of 8, and pretty much anything else with wheels.
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Clocking up the mum-hours, Three reveals the reality of modern motherhood. Mums work over 70 hours a week on family activities. Mums would earn £37,000 a year if paid for their time. Cleaning the house takes up the biggest share of mums’ time.
Mums across the UK spend an average of ten hours (612 minutes) a day carrying out household tasks and conducting family activities, according to…
A great summer read, a self-help book called Liquid Thinking (rrp £9.99 each).
The author, Damian Hughes, looks at the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own life, dreams and ambitions. Most importantly, he shows how so-called ‘ordinary’ people have adopted the lessons to be able to achieve life-long ambitions, from…
Most London Mums are familiar with the ubiquitous colourful Micro Scooters that are everywhere and are a favourite in the parks and on the school run. Anna Gibson and Philippa Gogarty, Co-Founders and Joint Directors of Micro Scooters Ltd tell us how they got started and what the inspiration was for setting up the business…
Philippa: “We met in 2002 as young mums at our first baby…
Read this success story of a dad who created The Pickled Onion Gang, a fun iPhone app, to help his son learn and develop new skills.
Busy dadpreneur Paul Robinson got the idea of the Pickled Onion Gang when he made up a story for his 4 year son Joe. Like most kids, he loved trains and the stories always revolved around a train journey to the seaside that he went on with the gang. The various…
Flexible job opportunity – ideal for mums and mumpreneurs – Seeking: Forever Living Product Representative.
What is Forever Living?
Forever Living was founded 1978 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. They currently have more than 2.6 USD billion in turnover, and have assets of more than $1.5 billion (cash rich & totally debt free). The company manufacture Aloe Vera based products, and…
Barclaycard today announced £150,000 in funding for educational and training grants, as part of the award winning Horizons programme, to help lone parents back to work. Research shows that even though 57% of single parents are already in work many more would like to be. £7 million have been donated by Barclaycard to entire programme since 2005 with 450,000 parents and children helped.
The…
What with all the preparation and changes that happen during pregnancy, it’s understandable that career development is not necessarily at the top of the priorities list when you’re about to bring a new life into the world.
However, it’s just as understandable that you may be concerned with the status of your job role before, during and after maternity leave. After all, if…