We all need to justify our existence somehow. Earning the family bread is a simple way of doing it. It must be much harder if you are a full-time mother.
There comes a point, soon after a child learns to do up its own shoe laces, when the bulk of a mother’s work (contrary to popular [...]

“The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law” said George Bernard Shaw. To make things a bit more equal for Alpha Mummies, we asked Russell Jones & Walker, a leading employment law firm, some of the questions we hear most often here at AM – about [...]

REPORTS
The NetMums survey of working mums: Highlights: 88% of mums working full time would rather work part time or stay at home with their children, and the great division between ‘housewives’ and ‘working mums’ is a media-created myth.
Department for Education and Skills reports: Highlights: Children who have care outside the home are intellectually ahead of [...]

Resources and tools
1. How do you find a school near you? – With this handy online tool
2. How does our chosen school rate with Ofsted? – Get the government agency report of schools you’re considering
3. Where is your school in the top school rankings? – The Sunday Times’ list of top schools, from primary [...]

A growing number of British couples are undergoing procedures at clinics overseas to determine the gender of their babies. It is possible to almost guarantee the sex of a baby using IVF and a type of embryos screening called Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD).
In many countries, though, PGD is illegal except when used for medical reasons [...]

If you have a three or four year old child, you need to start thinking NOW about applying for primary schools. Even though it can seem like a complicated and very, very confusing process.
Choosing a primary school is probably one of the scariest decisions you’ve so far had to make in your life as a [...]