February 22nd, 2010 by Lisa Warner

Is fear stopping us teaching our children life skills? Hold onto your hats parents, brace yourself, because amongst everything else you have to worry about we now learn that teaching our children life skills early is a bad thing! A BBC news article got my attention this week and I don’t think I have read anything so [...]

January 28th, 2010 by Sarah Newton

Parents what do you think the most dangerous drug is? Let us know e-mail lisa@finkcards.com or send us a video. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Parents/Teens and Drugs", url: "http://finkblog.com/parentsteens-and-drugs/" }); Share this and get people talking...

October 2nd, 2009 by Kate Yaffe

Motivating Your Teenager. With the compulsive viewing of the X Factor back on our TV’s in the U.K. I thought I would share with you my tips for giving your child the “X Factor”. 1. To start the ball rolling, ask your teenager this simple question: “ If money was no object and you could do whatever you [...]

September 27th, 2009 by Sarah Newton

School and cheating Why are we so surprised when children cheat? Did we not all do it; if there is a quicker way to do something won’t we all give it a go? It is human nature to find a quicker way of doing something that uses less energy but gets the same results. Back in [...]

September 23rd, 2009 by Kate Yaffe

Britain’s youngsters amongst world’s worst for drinking, smoking and teenage pregnancy, warns the OECD. Drinking, promiscuity and a cycle of low aspiration mean Britain is becoming the ‘bad parent’ of the western world. A vast study of youngsters’ well-being in 30 industrialised nations ranked Britain among the worst for health, lifestyles and school standards relative to public [...]