Educational Advice

5 Time-Saving Resources For Busy Parents

When life gets a bit hectic, keep these handy go-to’s in your back pocket. Here’s our 5 top resources for parents – from family dinner ideas to days out.

Rustling up quick family dinners

Supercook.com

This is a handy website for those moments when you’re looking to create something different, without changing your grocery shop. Supercook picks out quick and healthy recipes based on the food already stocked in your cupboards. So, if you’re looking for tasty Monday night dinner ideas, or a last-minute baking recipe without popping to the shops, this is a great resource for busy parents.

Banish the boredom with fun kids activities

What To Do With The Kids

It’s a glorious Saturday morning, and your children are on the computer. You want to pull them offline, but you’re not sure where to pull them to. What To Do With The Kids is a really useful resource that lists a huge range of activities, from holidays to days out, and from special events to stay-at-home pastimes. Whatever it is you want, they’ve got you covered. They also offer information about discounts and vouchers, plus competitions where you can win tickets to days out.

Help with tricky homework

MyTutor.co.uk

When you children are young, homework help is a piece of cake. But there may come a time when you’re just not sure what spectrum patterns have to say about the mass and consequent predicted lifetime of a star.

At this point it might be time to outsource the homework help, so that you can ensure your children are getting high quality assistance (and relieve the pressure to brush up on your knowledge of neutron stars.) Here at MyTutor, we have hundreds of skilled tutors that you can connect with, without leaving the house.

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Answers to teenage troubles

The Student Room

Once your children are old enough to seek advice on those adult-essentials such as tax, property rentals and car insurance, it’s mum and dad’s time to shine. However, while your children are still, well, children, the administrative issues they have to deal with may be further outside of your circle of experience. Problems like navigating the UCAS process, understanding exam syllabuses and knowing how best to approach job and internship applications – these may be as alien to you as they are to your kids.

Luckily, The Student Room is an incredible resource to help you with pretty much any problem you might face as a student. It hosts articles, links and message boards so you can access official information as well as see what other students are saying. As an added bonus, they also offer advice on the more pastoral side of guidance, such as health and relationships, so if your child blocks every attempt at that conversation with “God, Muuuuuum. You’re so embarrassing!”, you can be sure that they’re still getting the information they need.

Online safety

Vodafone

Hopefully you’ll be able to keep tabs on your child until the day you’re confident that they can fly the nest safely on their own. However, kids are spending increasing amounts of time in an environment where it’s nearly impossible for parents to keep watch: online.

If there’s one thing to note about teenagers and the internet, it’s that where there’s a will, there’s a way. Any teacher will tell you that blanket filters blocking social media sites on school computers fall like dominoes, as desperate school kids rival top hackers in finding proxy after proxy. But there’s still ways for parents to keep children safe. A great resource for web safety is the digital parenting advice from Vodafone, which offers some great advice on more practical and sensitive methods you can use to approach this issue with your children. You can make sure they stay safe from when they’re first able to use a computer, all the way up to the teenage years, when they are more likely to have the judgement to decide what’s best for themselves.

Written by Sophie Valentine, a science tutor with MyTutor

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