Win a complete Letts ‘GCSE In A Week’ Bundle PLUS a £60 Spotify Gift Card!
Okay, exam time is cancelled for this summer. But our 14 & 15yr olds are still looking at GCSEs for next year, and prepping for their exams is starting to ramp up again.So we’re really pleased to be working with Collins, helping you where we can to get ahead of the studying curve – no matter what your home education looks like at the moment (and trust someone who knows, everyone’s ‘home school’ looks...
Dear All. We’re Never Writing Another Mother’s Day Gift Guide. Love Us x.
So Mother’s Day is on it’s way – and in previous years the weeks in the run up were a flurry of activity in the LittleStuff HQ. Scouring the interwebs for marvellously lovely gifts. Writing up the Mother’s Day Gift Guide posts (two a day for just over two weeks, plus a whole series of flower posts this year… that’s 37 posts, and over 22,000 words…) and scheduling them to drip into your...
Style on a Shoestring: Student Outlet Steals
Shopping with teens isn’t always easy, but it doesn’t have to be complicated either. If your teens are trying to look stylish on a shoestring student budget, or want to make their salary stretch a little further, there are lots of ways you can help. Firstly, encourage them to shop in the right places. Look for seasonal sales, student outlets, and discount stores. With that in mind, here are our three favourite style bargains: Pretty...
Dear Parent of a Struggling Child
Written by Cai Graham, author of the TEEN Toolbox™ and parenting expert, specialising in adolescence, and is being reproduced with kind permission. I don’t work with Cai, she’s not paid for me to share this, and I have never used her services – but I have a number of friends who would recognise themselves in everything that Cai describes below, and I felt like it just might help someone… Dear Parent of a...
Period Myths Debunked!
From having a menstrual cycle that runs like clockwork, to using tampons on your first period, to experiencing brain fog — it’s important that we split any myth from reality. There’s no denying whether you’ve believed a period-associated myth. It’s likely that this applies to many women and debunking the myths of the menstrual cycle isn’t easy, regardless of how many periods you’ve experienced! Here, we explore the facts and explain...
Retro Board Games – Beano Monopoly, anyone?
We’re big fames of family games night (we’ve talked recently about our top favourite family card games), and for some reason our teens love a Retro Board Games night more than any other. We’ve got lots of new ones, but the old faighfuls come out time and again… Monopoly, Cluedo, Sorry… notn of them gather dust (which is frankly a miracle in this house). So when Beano asked last year if we wanted to try...