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Summer clothes? Check. Suncream? Check. Buckets and spades? Check. Address of a good local church? You what?! If attending church isn’t already one of your family holiday habits, here are 6 reasons why you might want to give it a try. God is still worth worshipping. Even when we are away from …

Holiday envy is like every other kind of envy - kitchen envy, career envy, wardrobe envy - only it tends to be particularly acute during the summer months when “everyone” is having an amazing holiday – apart from you. In part 1 we acknowledged that no parent is ever entirely &…

Can we do that? Can I try that? Can I go with them? Can I have a go at that, this once? On holiday strange things happen. New opportunities. Chance meetings. Bizarre moments. Confusing decisions. Odd questions. We were in a Devon village during their annual festival. It was coming to the end of the …

You’re on a campsite, late at night, miles from anywhere, after a particularly fractious journey. The eldest has just stormed off in a huff because of the lack of Wi-Fi. The 7 year-old can’t sleep because ‘it doesn’t smell right’ and the baby is inconsolable because, so…

Road tripping this holiday? We have some great tunes for you and reviews to go along with them! Turn that trip into a rooooad triiiip!! Michael Tinker’s Topsy Turvy Kingdom - read our REVIEW here. Randall Goodgame’s Sing the Gospel: A Slugs and Bugs collection - read our REVIEW here…

Our first ever family holiday abroad to France with 4 young children required a significant amount of planning – flights, car hire, travel insurance, health cards, passports, finding four booster seat backpacks on eBay. All that was before I even got to sun cream, clothing, swimming kits, acti…

“Let’s talk about sex!” – It’s very unlikely that your parents ever started a conversation with you using those words. It’s also very unlikely that you’ve ever said those words to your children. It probably wouldn’t be the best way of starting to talk …

Our pals Woody and Buzz are back in the latest movie from the hit franchise! They embark on an adventurous road trip with Bonnie making new friends and meeting up with some old ones. As you watch the film, here are 4 gospel conversation starters you could chat about as a family… • Worry …

“It’s not my fault … she started it.” Words familiar to almost any parent. Every child has an instinctive desire to blame others - whether it’s the 4-year old, who’s just knocked his best friend to the ground (“He took my special car.”) or the 14 year…

We’re playing a lot of Uno in our house at the moment. We’ve never been big on board games or card games, but the 9 year old is having an ‘Uno’ phase. It feels like I’ve spent more time in the past 3 months matching colours and numbers on cards, than in the rest of my l…