Fitness Expert Dax Moy is helping London Mums once again to get our pre-pregnancy bodies back. The notorious fitness guru – most famously responsible for helping X-factor winner Michelle McManus to lose 10 stones – has turned his attention to pre- and post-natal ladies, offering tips for staying healthy and regaining pre-pregnancy bodies while staying safe and healthy.
His research into pre-…
81% of parents in the UK don’t have the knowledge required to administer basic first aid to a baby or a child although one in four will have to deal with an emergency first aid situation. A new online training campaign has just been launched to help improve parents’ first aid skills.
New research* by Tesco Baby & Toddler Club also reveals that 72% of parents wouldn’t feel confident in…
A semi-detached house and family car in Hornchurch, Essex, received the ultimate big-money makeover yesterday to highlight the amount of savings UK households could make – totalling over £12 billion – when comparing prices online and switching to the cheapest deal.
Figures from price comparison site, ArgosCompare.co.uk, show that UK households could save over £465 each year on…
Dads are the main childcare provider in one in seven (14%) UK households with dependent children, according to new research from life insurer Aviva. The study suggests at least 1.4 million* men in the UK, now take on the role of the ‘primary parent’.
A further 25% of families with children under 18 say the childcare is shared equally between both parents. This is up from 18% in 2010 when a…
The gloomy economy is impacting on a couple’s financial ability to fund a divorce. News this week from The Law Gazette says that: The dire state of the economy has already led to a dramatic increase in the number of litigants in person, new figures from a voluntary organisation suggest. This is before government cuts to civil legal aid come into effect, which many solicitors predict will…
Eve King talks to London Mums about how she has turned her passion for jewellery into a business.
Stella & Dot is a boutique-style jewellery and accessories line, designed in New York, and available exclusively through in-home ‘Trunk Shows’ by Independent Stylists, and online. This autumn, Stella & Dot is bringing its innovative, modern home-based “social selling”…
The Chartered Institute of Marketing is calling on businesses and marketers to be more socially minded and responsible in its latest paper on marketing to children, ‘Leave Those Kids Alone? – Responsible marketing to children’. Following industry and government debate – from the Bailey Review to the Alcohol Marketing Bill – the paper examines the current moral and regulatory…
Parents are hungry for information on a wide range of issues to help them exercise choice and support their children’s learning, a new report has found. Family Lives, Fiona Millar and Pearson have carried out a poll of nearly 1,000 parents looking at a range of issues, in particular what is most important to them when they are choosing a school for their child and whether they are successful in…
If you think back to when you were a young child, can you remember your mum’s approach to safety? A new study by the UK home safety brand Lindam has revealed that nearly eight in ten mums believe their own mums were not overly safety conscious when they were children. But despite this, nearly 30% would still trust her over their mother-in-law when it comes to their babies’ safety.
As a child…
Almost half of adult investors in the capital want to make money and make a difference.
New research unveiled today shows we are a nation eager to help support social issues, often making environmental and ethical choices when buying goods and services – particularly in London. But when it comes to making decisions about where to put our money, confusion is rife.
New research, amongst 2,105…