Sunday, 05 February 2012

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Maximising your family income in 2012

Chris Briggs, Childcare Benefits Advisor for Employers for Childcare Charitable Group advises on how you could maximise your income in 2012.

For many families January can be a sombre month. Some parents will open their credit card statements and realise that their Christmas cheer cost more than they had budgeted for. To help you with th...

Claire Edgar

Why Make A Will?

Regrettably most of us are worth more on death, than alive. The common old excuse “sure I have nothing to leave" is rarely, if ever, true!

If you have children and have not made a Will since you started a family, you risk exposing them to unnecessary financial and emotional uncertainty. Many people presume their nearest and dearest wi...

Editor's Letter

Letter from the Editor

Happy 2012! If you’ve made any New Year’s resolutions, hopefully your commitment to them is still going strong and is towards a positive change for the better.

If you’ve resolved to organise your finances for the year then make sure you read our family finance special in this month's issue. We give you great tips, including how to cut down the grocery bills,...

Family Finance

Financial New Year resolutions

Our financial columnist Lisa Magowan is determined to stick to her goals

It’s a tradition in our house that every New Year I sit down and make some resolutions for the year ahead – which almost always include doing more exercise and eating more healthily. And every year I...

Grace McGurk

New Year, New Start

Another year has come and gone, I think it is said that when the time seems to pass quicker it’s a sign of getting older.

Although I don’t feel old, my boys do delight in joking about my nearness to the big 40 which is gently creeping ever closer. A New Year usually means the making, and breaking of many different resol...

Helen Braden

Flying the nest – if only for a week

Lucy will be ten this month. Every time I look at her I notice her growing up in front of me, but at the same time of course she’s still a little girl enjoying childhood.

Recently she went away with school for the week, a whole week, Monday to Friday! Needless to say as the big day approached Lucy became more and more excited. We shopped for all the gear, packed the ...

Jason Holmes

Saving Summer

As if we did not realise already that children cost a fortune and life is getting more expensive, summer and its potential expense arrives.

It’s been a difficult year for many with food bills getting higher and the cost of filling the car increasing. It used to be for our family that spending over £100 in Tesco was a rarity, now it is co...

Lyn Magill

A Fishy Tale

Ni4kids columnist Lyn Magill on the joys of a having family pet.

“Other people have pets, not us. We are free spirits who will never be tied down by an animal.” I nodded in agreement with my husband after all previous pet keeping had not always been a wholly posit...

Maureen Boyle

Summer Reads - If the Summer Comes....

My summer holidays started properly with the wonderful smell of a newly- opened Enid Blyton – bought and sniffed for the first time in a wee huckster shop in Bundoran.

This created the need to find peace and quiet on a noisy family holiday in which to curl up and be transported to an England at the height of summer, to picnic baskets filled with pork pies and ginge...

Paws for Thought

Free educational workshops and talks

Charity aim is to increase awareness of the correct needs and treatment of cats

Cats Protection offers free talks to the public including adult talks, interactive workshops for four to 18-year-olds in schools, youth groups and clubs across the country. The aim is to increase awar...

Stephanie Berkeley

Style Counsel

Happy New Year readers! Having spent Christmas in Donegal and New Year hurtling through the French Alps on snowblades I have very little to report on the style front however this festive season I did ponder two burning style issues admits Stephanie Berkel

“To onesie or not to onesie?” To be honest, I'm not all that good at being fashionable in January. I just popped into M&S, looking for socks and tights (slick) and found myself (hair scraped into a ...

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