Meals are undoubtedly one of the most important daily chores, along with sleep. Being properly fed is one of the things that everything else in a successful and happy life stems from. But providing healthy meals for your family isn’t cheap… Have you seen the price of groceries these days? And the time it takes […]
Paint that contains lead was banned in 1978, but more than 30 million American homes are believed to still contain it, including nearly 4 million homes where children under the age of 6 live. Two weeks after setting a nationwide deadline for removal of lead pipes, the Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on […]
Labour gave us Sure Start to tackle child poverty. Now it should hike tax to keep it | Polly Toynbee
As the budget approaches, outrage from the Tories and their media outriders at any mention of proposed tax rises is reaching boiling point. Never a word of what they would do about collapsing public services. Misleading claims about what the well-off pay already (no, the top 1% doesn’t pay a third of all tax) and […]
Family dynamics are always tough, even in the best of circumstances… Parenting teenagers is difficult enough when they’re your own flesh and blood or they’re otherwise your sole charge and are obligated to follow your direction. It gets infinitely more difficult when you have another adult who is influential in your life—especially one of their […]