According to new research from The Children's Mutual, parents could be faced with bills of between £75,000 and £130,000 in 12 years time if their young children pursue their top career aspirations of teacher, doctor or vet.  

According to recent research by the leading Child Trust Fund (CTF) provider, The Children's Mutual, today's dads undertake a wide variety of tasks in and around the home, such as cooking, assembling toys, acting as the children's taxi service, doing the school run, organising family finances and doing DIY.

Research by the company behind engine starter “Start Ya Bastard” has found that over two-thirds of parents allow their children to swear without punishment, effectively accepting the practice. 4 in 5 parents swear in front of their children.

16 September 2009

Findings from the Realtime Generation Survey 2009 are published today, revealing the education and career choices, expectations and concerns, of 13-17 year olds from across the UK.

Under-fives and pregnant women are emerging as key swine flu risk groups, according to hospital figures and the age profiles of those who have already died.

A new report publlshed today by Intuitive Media, provider of safe online learning communities for children, reveals clear demands on the Prime Minister to do more to listen to children; keep children safe; stop bullying; cut down gun and knife crime and ban drugs, alcohol and smoking.

American scientists prove that gestures help early speech.

New research from Meredith L. Rowe and Susan Goldin-Meadow, of the University of Chicago, published in ‘Science’ Journal, has established that babies who use gestures to communicate, at an early age, have large spoken vocabularies compared to their non-gesturing peers by the time they reach school age.

Forget letters after their name, British parents are rooting for vocational qualifications to recession-proof their kids’ employment chances.

With 1 in 10 women (=1.3 million female workers) working more than 45 hours a week, and almost 30% of adults in the UK having dependent children*,(*Mintel's Balancing Work and Leisure report Sept 2008), it's hardly any wonder the best thing you could give a mother on Mothering Sunday this year is a break.

Three quarters (76.6%) of mums feel that they neglect themselves in favour of putting their families first with 60% of mums spending less than 30 minutes on themselves per day and a quarter of mums having a mere 15 minutes or less to themselves daily. 

Academic strengths are still the most important factor for students to consider when making college decisions. However, a new survey has found that the YouTube generation need more information on colleges and want to get it through online video.

Is this the death of pocket money? A leading Pay As You Go service has seen a huge rise in the number of parents assigning 'pocket-money' to their children in the form of phone credit, prompting research that has concluded that British parents are now more likely to pre-pay for their child's phone credit than give them an allowance.

New research has revealed that the Tooth Fairy is likely to become known as a miser this year as the amounts she leaves under pillows are slashed.

The finger of blame has been firmly pointed at their parents in The Childhood Enquiry published on 5th February 2009. The report was commissioned by The Children's Society and launched in September 2006 as the UK's first independent national inquiry into childhood.