This week seems to have been all about holidays. We made a slightly scary and impulsive decision to go to Morocco last weekend: we’ve held off being adventurous while the kids were babies, but now K is nearly 3 there is no reason to hold back! We’re booked with the Adventure Company, which grades the child-friendliness of its holidays. Dh uses a wheelchair so we always need to make sure a holiday is accessible too. We’ll report back on how we get on, on the blog.
It’s mums 70th this summer …

Looking for somewhere to take the kids this half term? Try Drayton Manor Theme Park. It is a fun family friendly day out, and has enough to keep you busy over two days if you want.
Drayton Manor has a big pull for little ones as it is the home of Thomas Land. My boys, aged 5 and 2, were over the moon to have so many chances to ride on Thomas and Friends. We started the day with a train trip, and went all the way up to the end …

Many parents find it hard to juggle the inevitable household chores with having fun time with the kids during the school holidays.  In particular, the thought of taking young children on a big supermarket shop fills lots of us with dread!  One solution is online food shopping, but what tips are there for saving time and money?  Menus4Mums, the online family meal planners, asked its busy mum customers and fans just that question.

Over 4 days, we’ve just taken part in a Falconry display, played beach cricket, learnt to fence, had football coaching, met farm animals, learnt to street dance, gone swimming, dug sandcastles on the beach, played mini golf and beach volleyball. Exhausted? Yes! But everyone is full of smiles and new experiences as we’ve just got back from Butlin’s in Bognor.

Search is on for best family friendly travel products

Holiday company Tots to Travel is launching the Just Go! Awards, the UK’s first awards focused exclusively on family friendly travel products. The company is inviting entries for products that genuinely make the life of parents easier when travelling with young children aged four and under.

We’ve just had a few days at Marwell Hotel and Zoo on their Zoofari package. It is a great break for families looking for a few days away, and was made even better for us by brilliant sunshine throughout. Marwell Wildlife is one of the best wildlife parks I have been to: from a small person’s point of view we got great views of all the animals all day. The park is set on the side of a hill so it is a bit of an upwards trek: I’d probably …

Spend less this half-term and save up to 8% on a family day out with the BaBeeCard. Paying for a day out with the family just got a whole lot easier on your wallet – with retailers such as Bella Italia, Brewers Fayre, Madame Tussards and Sea Life Sanctuaries taking part in the BaBeeCard Discount Club – with savings of up to 8%.
“A family of four visiting a Sea Life Aquarium could save over £5 on the entrance fee, plus gain further discounts on lunch or shopping afterwards,” explains, Gemma …

Becky Goddard-Hill is the author of How to afford time off with your baby – 101 ways to ease the financial strain (Vermilion 2009.) She runs a popular blog called Baby Budgeting which is filled with posts, reviews and competitions all to aid the budgeting parent. She is also a humanistic psychotherapist and has worked as a child development trainer for social services. For the past 6 years Becky had been a SAHM on a very low budget.  She shares her list of fun things to do with little ones …

Parents are missing out on thousands of pounds of savings for after school and holiday childcare, according to a leading childcare vouchers provider.

Do you sometimes feel that you don’t have time to fit in everything that the kids want to do? Going to the cinema is something that’s incredibly hard to fit in when you have two older kids and a little one who wouldn’t last 20 minutes sitting still! I usually rely on DD and DS’s older cousins to take them to the cinema – they were as keen to see Toy Story 3 as DD and DS. We never managed to get to see …