Our team of parent and expert writers

All of our writers have firsthand experience of the primary school years.

We’re proud to have a diverse team of parents and parenting experts. Some of our writers are rural, some are urban, some are single parents and some belong to traditional families, but all of them know what it’s like to grapple with the years before ten.

We try to present the most realistic, engaging perspective on parenting that we can. If you feel we’re missing something or someone, please let us know.

Opinions expressed by bloggers are their own.

  • Linda

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    Linda Jones, Editor

    Journalist Linda is a mum of twin girls and a lover of most types of cake. She has been blogging since 2005 when she started a site dedic...

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    RosieScribble

    Rosie is a single mum living in the Midlands with her seven-year-old daughter. Rosie is a keen writer and blogger and recently received a...

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  • Deb

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    Debbie Webber

    Deb is an award-winning blogger and married with five noisy but funny children aged 14, 12, 10, 6 and 4 who live in domestic chaos deep i...

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  • Ellen

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    Ellen Arnison

    Ellen lives in Scotland with her sons, boys one, two and three, who are 11, eight and twenty months, and her husband The Panther. When sh...

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  • Joanne

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    Joanne Mallon

    Joanne is Ready for Ten's behaviour expert. She's also the Agony Aunt for ParentDish UK, and a trained life coach, journalist and NLP Pra...

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  • Cathy

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    Cathy James

    Cathy is a mother of two, a childminder and passionate about kids' play. She writes about childre

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  • Maggie

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    Maggie Christie

    Maggie is a forty-something mum living on a 22 acre farm in the beautiful Preseli Hills in the wild west of Wales with daughters H8 and R...

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  • Cathy cooper

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    catherinecooper

    Catherine Cooper is a freelance journalist writing for several national publications about parenting. Her first book, Travel with Childre...

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  • Ian

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    Ian Newbold

    Inspired by his five year-old son, Max, Ian is a young widower balancing life as a full-time dad, freelance writer and blogger. The busy...

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    English Mum

    Becky is a 40 year old mum of two boys. She writes successful foodie blog Englishmum.com, recent winner of a British Mummy Bloggers' Bri...

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  • Jo middleton

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    Jo Middleton

    Jo is a freelance journalist and single mum to two girls, aged seven and fourteen. Jo writes on all aspects of parenting, and blogs a...

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  • Parklover

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    Kath Horwill

    Kath is married and lives in Manchester. You will usually find Kath at the park with her daughter, CJ. When she's not there, she'll be fr...

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  • Keris

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    Keris Stainton

    Keris lives in Lancashire with her husband and two sons. She has written for publications as diverse as Practical Parenting, Scarlet, Msl...

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  • Alice castle

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    Alice Castle

    Writer and mum-of-two Alice Castle set up her Dulwich Divorcee website as a bit of therapy, then got bitten by the blogging bug. Four yea...

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  • Alison p

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    Alison Percival

    Alison is a mum of two and has been a journalist for over 10 years specialising in parenting, education and homes and gardens. Pre-childr...

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  • Jan

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    Janet Murray

    Former teacher Janet is an award winning education journalist writing for the Guardian and other national publications. She lives in Kent...

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  • Uh

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    Ursula Hirschkorn

    Ursula Hirschkorn is a harassed mum of four boys, including toddling twins. She is also a freelance journalist who considers herself some...

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  • Victoria wallop

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    Victoria Wallop

    Victoria is a life-long Londoner who now shares the capital's pleasures with her husband and three children aged eight, five and four. I...

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  • Jen walshaw

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    Jen Walshaw

    Jen is a work from home mum to two boys Maxi and Mini who are four and five. 2 years ago Jen underwent a double mastectomy and now looks...

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    Kelly Rose Bradford

    Kelly Rose Bradford is a journalist, broadcaster and mum to an almost-eight-year-old boy. She also has a fur-baby called Matilda (a West ...

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    Dan Hughes

    Dan lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two kids. He keeps chickens and ducks, grows veg, and takes the occasional long walk. Dan blogs...

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    Elsie Button

    Elsie has been writing her blog Flower Fairies and Fairy Cakes since 2007 and has recently won a Gurgle blog award. As well as blogging ...

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    Emily Carlisle

    Emily lives in the Cotswolds with her husband and three children, four year old Josh and three year old twin girls, Evie and Georgie. She...

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    JayneHowarth

    Jayne is a mother of two (a daughter and son) and a long-time journalist in the Midlands, now earning a crust as a freelance writer and e...

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    Hazel Gaynor

    Hazel Gaynor (aka Hot Cross Mum) is an award-winning blogger, freelance writer and stay at home mum to two energetic young boys aged five...

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  • Julie dean

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    Julie Dean

    As a nutritionist I love keeping up to date on the latest food fads and digging down to find the science (if any!) behind them. I have...

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  • Tracey_davies

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    Tracey Davies

    Tracey Davies is a freelance journalist and mum to a boy of nine and six year old twin girls. She writes about travel, twins and her ofte...

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  • Jo porter

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    Jo Porter

    Jo is mum to two football-mad boys (and wife to another one!) who have recently settled in Surrey after a lifetime of globe-trotting. Wh...

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  • Heidi

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    Heidi Scrimgeour

    Heidi is a freelance parenting journalist. You'll find her work in a range of national newspapers and magazines, and she blogs at One Fei...

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