playdate

Letting your children go on a playdate is a big step for many parents. You’re letting someone else care for them and look after them, but it’s usually perfectly fine. It gives us a break from parenting and also helps them develop friendships. However, one mum was left furious when she found out her seven-year-old […]

2 years ago

Now that school is back again, and the lockdowns are eased, so many things of our pre-pandemic lives are once more back on the agenda. Such as playdates. The thing is – once you have children of school-going age, play dates will become a big part of your life, like it or not. So you […]

5 years ago

Ah the playdate. It wasn’t really ‘a thing’ for those of us growing up in this country in the 80s and 90s but it sure is a reality for those of us parenting in 2018. Gone are the days of kids heading off by themselves to knock into their friends or organise a massive game […]

7 years ago

Most parents are thrilled if their toddler manages to go five minutes without destroying something delicate or expensive. For this reason, most kids’ play wardrobes tend to be on the functional side of fashionable. Unless you’re UK fashion designer Sarah Bryan, that is. For reasons we can’t quite grasp, Sarah, from Wakefield in West Yorkshire, […]

10 years ago

A new proposal would see streets closed off for certain amounts of time to allow children to play freely in their own neighbourhoods. The play order is the brainchild of Dublin City Councillor Deirdre Heney, who will trial the idea in the Northside suburb of Donnycarney in the coming weeks. Under the plan, communities would […]

12 years ago

Planning a summer holidays play date or two? When it comes to snack time, the easiest way to get some healthy food into them is by picking a fun fruit and preparing it in an unusual way. Watermelon is the perfect option for a number of reasons: the flavour isn’t overpowering, it’s full of water […]

12 years ago