Mike Woods, 46 lives in Cardiff with his wife Karen, 45, and their three children Jamilla, Danika and Rourke. Two of these children – Danika and Rourke – have severe nut allergies.

Name of Business:  HayMaxTM Limited
Your Name and Age:  Max Wiseberg 52
Tell us about your family:  Partner (in life, work, crime, everything) and 2 children, 11 and 10.

Small Business Expert and Owner of BusinessSmiths.co.uk Simon Ellingworth; has balanced being the main care provider of two children under 5 with establishing, operating, even selling businesses from home over the last six years.
“Many Dads ask me how it feels to be a stay at home Dad and I always reply – go home kiss your wife and tell her you will never be able to fully appreciate how hard she works for so little reward and recognition.

Online baby retailer Hello Baby is kicking off 2010 by more than doubling the size of its office, for what promises to be a hectic year.  East London based online baby shop Hello Baby is moving to a new office in order to cope with growing sales. The new office remains in trendy Brick Lane and is more than twice the size of the previous premises. Hello Baby, which specialises in nursery furniture, baby toys and accessories for babies and toddlers, was founded April 2008 and enjoyed 300% increase in sales …

Peter and Julie Maxted are the epitome of home-based working parents.  They have run a petsitting and houseminding business for over seven years and have now developed it further by offering a business licensing opportunity. 

Name of Business:      Baby’s First Calendar Ltd
Your Name and Age:  Danny Maddocks, 28
Tell us about your family: I Live with my partner Angela and our 19 month old son Cameron, Angela is a Cardiac Physiologist at our local hospital in Bristol.
What did you do before coming up with your business idea?

First, I’m sure that you’ve gathered that I’m a dad. My name is Akin Smith, and I run The Aloe Shop as a sole trader business. I am married with 3 wonderful boys. We have lived in Oxfordshire for the past 11 years. My wife and I met in medical school, and went from mere acquaintances to friends, and then…Sometimes I think I went to med school to meet her because I changed careers not long after graduating.

According to The Children’s Mutual, a leading Child Trust Fund provider, more dads are choosing to stay at home, with as many as one in six choosing to stop working and a quarter of all dads opting to work part-time.
 
This comes at a time where concerns have been expressed about an alleged worsening of the work-life balance in the UK. Indeed, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) suggests that the majority of working dads are not happy with their current work-life balance, with as many as two in three …

Watch out for Magic Whiteboard at this weekend’s Baby Show in London. You will also be able to buy Magic Blackout – ideal to block out light in any nursery bedroom window.
Name of Business: Magic Whiteboard Limited – create a whiteboard from a roll – anywhere, in seconds!
Your Name and Age: Neil 37, Laura 31
Tell us about your family: 
We have been married for 7 years and live in Worcester, I used to work for the NHS at the local hospital, I was Head of Continuous Improvement, Laura is currently on …

 
Name of Business: The Gro Company
 

Your Names and Ages: Rob and Ouvrielle Holmes (40 and 41)
Tell us about your family
We have been married for 15 years and have four children, Sam (12), Lucy (10), William (5) and Eddie (3). We live in a little village near the sea in South Devon. We feel very privileged and lucky to have four healthy children and live in such a beautiful part of the country.
What did you do before coming up with your business idea for Grobags and how was it making the …