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 …

These quick tips are designed to help you help your children develop a positive attitude towards travelling and holidays particulaly primary school children.  Our tips are in addition to the usual sudocream, UV protection, antiseptic wipes, calpol sachets, insect bite cream, plasters…etc.

We pitched up at Manchester’s Trafford Centre a little late, but very excited. The entrance to the new Legoland Discovery Centre is, inevitably, via the Lego shop, but I managed to steer Harry to the queue.