"We really struggled to find after school care, it was almost impossible. We stumbled across Koru Kids and it’s been brilliant because after school care is really all we needed." Mum of one, Highgate "I love the flexibility of nanny share – we can increase or decrease our hours each week and our nanny has…
1. Share a short message on social media As a parent it can feel like you’re in about a hundred different Parent WhatsApp groups, but this is where they could really come in handy! Local WhatsApp groups are definitely the best place to try first when looking for a nanny share. If that doesn’t work…
The Bakerloo Line isn’t always fast and you’ll swelter in the summer, but I think a lot of Londoners feel strangely fond of it, in part because it stops at so many places we associate with days out as children: the zoo, the South Bank, Madame Tussauds. Unfortunately for those of you travelling with a…
In the third of our series exploring days out along your most convenient tube line, we're looking at the Central Line. Hopping on your local line means fewer changes, less carrying two stone of toddler down windy and perilous staircases, and hopefully less stress. Here you’ll find suggestions ranging from Japanese canteens to bluebell woods,…
Since I started working on this article, I have had friends tell me they’re frowned on because their child ‘only’ does swimming as an after school activity. Another parent talked about how she has friends doing weekly tutoring with their two-year-olds in addition to nursery. And last week when out and about, I was asked…
Subscribe to the Bringing Up Great Kids newsletter to receive great content like this monthly. Subscribe Over the course of last year the Bringing Up Great Kids Facebook group has been filled with thoughtful discussion and debate on a huge range of topics from whether you should bribe your kids to do chores to the…
Love these suggestions? Subscribe to the Bringing Up Great Kids newsletter to receive great content like this monthly. Subscribe London is awesome, isn't it? There's an unbelievable amount on offer for families, and frankly we are sometimes overwhelmed by where to even start. So, with Spring half-term next week, we asked some of our favourite…
Here at Koru Kids, we've been recruiting older adults to work as after school nannies. Here's why… Finding after school care is hard. After school clubs are in high demand, the number of childminders in England has dropped by 27% since 2012 according to Ofsted, and most of us don't have friends and family nearby…
Love these suggestions? Subscribe to the Bringing Up Great Kids newsletter to receive great content like this monthly. Subscribe Getting the kids to take their medicine can sometimes be difficult, can’t it? For young children the thought of taking tablets or strange liquids can be deeply unpleasant or scary, and they might not understand why…
Love these suggestions? Subscribe to the Bringing Up Great Kids newsletter to receive great content like this monthly. Subscribe In the Bringing Up Great Kids Facebook group, someone recently shared the challenge of bringing together old friends pre-Christmas meal now that they're all parents. "A bunch of us, London-based uni friends, have a tradition of…