Yeah. Don’t Say THAT To Your Revising Teen (or Anything Else, Frankly…)
Please. If you value your health and/or sanity, just don’t say THAT to your Revising Teen. Ever. Teenagers. Bloody hell they’re tricky, right? I mean, don’t get me wrong, they’re adorable creatures – funny, smart, opinionated, interesting, purveyors of marvellous new music, sources of most excellent YouTube funnies, genuinely brilliant company, … but also as predictable as a cat in a force ten gale...
Dear Audiobooks. We love you. Love us xxx
Dear Audiobooks,I just wanted to drop you a note to say… well, thanks, really. I can’t count the number of times over the last ten years I have walked up the stairs of an evening in my house and heard four different versions of Stephen Fry talking quietly, as each child listened – for the 100th time – to their currently selected Harry Potter. When they were small we regularly borrowed your cassettes & CDs...
Teen Fiction for under £5 #WorldBookDay
Reading is important Today is World Book day! Up and down the land parents will be scrambling to get their young children into various costumes based on characters from popular books either being studied or suggested by their School. The day will be full of noisy excitement and fun, (maybe not so much for those poor teachers!) but at the end of the day the children will all have come home with either voucher for a new book, or a new...
Create Your Own Happy Review
I’ve been looking forward to this little book for so long now – but the Create Your Own Happy review is finally here! Woot! It’s a pretty universal wish that we all want our children to be happy. Happy It’s such a simple little word. And yet it feels like our modern kids are less happy then they’ve ever been. How has that happened? How have we gone from carefree 12yr old out on their bikes to 12yr olds...
Top Ten MSF Picks for Teens?
We all know teenagers: moody, only talk in emojis and never off their phones? Yep. But anyone who spends any time with them knows that they’re also some of the most open-minded, radical and future-thinking people around. Get young minds blossoming with our top ten picks for teens at Manchester Science Festival this October… It’s going to be v lit. 1. Man on the Moon programmeShow: Tuesday 16 October – Saturday 20 OctoberWorkshops:...
Win a Collins Early Learning pack and Stabilo Activity Set | #SummerStuff
Day 13 of #SummerStuff fortnight, and it’s a perfect one for the youngest in the family – Collins are offering one lucky reader a set of Early Learning activity books and a huge Stabilo set. Come on – what kid doesn’t want to win that HUGE bundle of pens to use in those books?! Summer’s here, and long fun days stretch ahead of us. But amongst the picnics, movie nights and beach days there’s bound to be...