In the beginning It started on a Sunday. After lunch, we sat around talking. Looking at the dirty plates, glasses, and cooking pots, the conversation edged towards tidying up and how when we were kids, there wasn’t an...
It Isn't Convenient If It Kills You I’ve said this for years, so it gives no pleasure at all to find I was right all along: storing and/or heating food in plastic containers - exactly what so many cooking instructions tell you to do on ...
Online Safety The Online Safety Act 2023 is a new set of laws to protect children and adults online. It's supposed to impose new safeguarding responsibilities on social media companies and search engines. META, Goo...
I'm On The Phone Not in school in New York state you’re not. Schools there have banned smartphones in school. You know, only nearly 20 years after it became a problem, but better late than never. What do you think? Le...
Capability, Confidence, Communication Helping Cards are all about the three Cs——capability, confidence and communication. The three vital elements for a whole, happy, fulfilled adult. That's a lot to claim for a card game, but we've worke...
Why We Write Back in the 1940s the United States government made films for all the millions of people who joined the forces, worked in factories or who were in any way involved in the war, as everyone was. The fil...
Peak Brain Power People have been saying that teenagers aren't as good at reading, sums and science as they were when they were at school since for ever, but now it seems to be a fact. OECD (2024), Do Adults Have the ...
Loving Our Home! Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado - and after all, we've had several months of "do" already - Helping Cards begs leave to announce that we are now the proudly registered sole owners of the phr...
The Lost Boys Without mincing words, boys aren't making the grade. From primary school to the day they stop higher education, they aren't as good as girls. They aren't getting jobs the way they used to. The percent...
Write Your Own Chores Help Dad Paint His Boat There are 80 Chore Cards in each Helping Cards pack, 10 Excuses! cards, and the How To Play card (although probably every household is going to add their own twists to the rewa...
Zoning Out Changing Your Brain https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20230403-how-cellphones-have-changed-our-brains There's an interesting article on the BBC website about how mobile phones change your brain. No...
Reclaiming Real Life Once upon a time, in a land not that long ago, children didn't stare blankly into their phones. For good or bad, we're all more connected digitally than ever. Except that in many ways, we aren't. Chri...