when the television or computer is switched off. This will highlight reading as an enjoyable alternative option.5. Be a good role modelThe best way to encourage reading is to let your child see you reading to show her that is is useful, fun and a

– then help her check under the bed for monsters3. Avoid scary bedtime stories and television shows  For the time being…4. Light up the problem  Provide a nightlight so your child will be able to see her surroundings – even if she wakes in the night

pool, a health suite with hot tubs, and spacious rooms with plasma TVs and simply fabulous mountain views.At 2,050 metres, Belle Plagne is a high-altitude village offering ski-in-ski-out from most hotels. It’s compact and pretty, with a covered walkway

the computer and television, wrapping up warm and heading off to the park, or enjoying idle pursuits like rifling through old photographs and momentos to make a family scrapbook.A simple life can also mean having fewer possessions, and many families

other that often. Would you like to have more television exposure like Jamie?If you’re destined to be on TV, you’re snapped up straight away, like a beautiful model walking down the street, you get spotted. That how it was for Jamie. He was working in a

on April 23 via television adverts on ITV and on the ITV website. The advert will feature children ‘doing their thing’ as a photographer, a hula hooper, a beat boxer, a street dancer, an astronomer and a songwriter, whilst modelling the new summer

campaign. A nationwide search led to hundreds of entry videos being sent in of talented children 'doing their thing'; in the hope that they too could star in next season's Marks & Spencer's television adverts.Visit the showcase website to check out all

Nestled in the harbour of Portreath on Cornwall’s north coast, the five-star Scandinavian-style luxury lodges of Gwel an Mor are not only equipped to be a home-away-from-home, with plasma televisions and wireless internet access, they also come

Ultra-luxury ski operator Descent has hired Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall – mother of television chef Hugh and author of The Good Granny Guide – to devise the children’s meals served in their chalets even more delicious, filled with nutritious

Forget Mickey and friends – on your next holiday to Florida, check out Wannado City in Sawgrass Mills, Fort Lauderdale, a fantastic theme park in which children can try out any of 250 different careers, from television director and rock climber