This is my second instalment of updates from posts I am writing for Kidspot Village Voices this year called Inspiring everyday women. You can find my first wrap up here. It is sponsored by SEEK Learning and is aimed at inspiring, encouraging and showing women how they might return to work or study if they have this on their list [...]

This is part of my monthly series on Parenting Teenagers. Almost five years ago I wrote a series of posts reviewing the excellent book by Celia Lashlie, Growing gorgeous boys into good men. You can see the posts here. I have been re-reading these posts and feel that I am overdue to read this book [...]

I am loving this banana bread! It tastes amazing and as well as being gluten free it is also cane sugar free. I have played around with the amount of banana the bread has. Two will give you a drier type of bread, three is incredibly moist and two and a half seems just about [...]

Today’s post is a specialist guest contribution to the Finance 2013 series I am running on the blog.  It is written by Claire Berry, a career consultant who provides interview training, professional resumes and job applications. She assists executives, middle management, health professionals, graduates and of course mothers from a range of industries to achieve the jobs, career [...]

Recipes mid week is not the usual pattern of things on Planning With Kids! Winter sports are in full force for the PWK family and I am attempting to alter my blogging routine to find the time to get everything done. With seven sports activities from Fri – Sun, plus a long run for me, [...]

A number of weeks ago, many of you kindly took the time to fill in a survey about how much we are spending to feed our families. Today’s post shares the first of the data from the survey, which I hope you will find useful. Personally I found the information food for thought! For a [...]