I lived in France for the next 18 months, and I did all the househusband chores: cooking, cleaning, child minding, shopping etc. I also studied French, and in all modesty I was about A Level standard at my best. .... I was holding my eyelid open with my finger, living in a bedsit without a chair and table, couldn't borrow money, couldn't find work, and just for fun I was studying courses in the evening that 82% of the working population don't have, namely GCSE English and ...

I'm trying to set my elderly, chair-bound father up with an iMac at the moment but I'm now wondering if this would be a better option. It's certainly (even) easier to use, everything is right there in front of you, and the contextual interface really puts the necessary controls in front of you without you ... Apple admits using factories that employ Chinese children. Apple has admitted that child labour was used at some of the Chinese factories the company... Read more ...

i get him to 'help' cook. he stands on a chair turned around by the kitchen counter. i can't fob him off with an empty bowl and spoon anymore, so i started pouring in a little flour and gradually adding water for him to stir while i, ... This year is the year we I went NO MORE with the TV, the computer, the DS, and the Wii- the amount of time that my children spent watching and/or playing on these over the summer holidays was MASSIVE - ie - pretty much 6-8 hours a day. ...

To give them the best possible start, make sure that their desk and chair are the right size, and that they have good lighting. A desktop computer and monitor offers a more flexible set up than a lap top as you can align the monitor at ...