From this popular and always repeated BBC2 series, the indispensable home help you'll never want to be without. Over 5000 hints and tips from professionals on every subject under the sun.
Also in the Trade Secrets Series Annie and Meg have written
Trade Secrets Parenting and
Trade Secrets Christmas.
Over 5000 hints tips, techniques and pointers gleaned from expert advice from seasoned professionals that will tell you everything you will ever need to know about bringing up children.
Trade Secrets Parenting is the 'Baby Bible' every parent needs to help them through the first eighteen years. This comprehensive book contains over 5000 hints and tips on bringing up children covering conception, pregnancy, birth, babies, toddlers, school, teenagers and, at last packing them off into life. Divided into age groups and easy-to-reference sections, it covers fertility to food cravings, breastfeeding to bullying and smoking to sex education. Each series of tips is contributed by individuals who have a lifetime's experience in the subject including doctors, teachers, nannies, child counsellors, midwives, health visitors and, of course, parents.
Everything you will ever need to know to get you through Christmas! From dinner parties to decorations, Christmas travelling to Christmas tension - the experts give the inside story on how to survive the festive season. Developed from BBC 2's hugely successful television programme - where professionals from a wide range of trades and occupations give hints and tips taken from a lifetime of doing the job - it is both practical and succinct. Beautifully illustrated throughout in colour,
Trade Secrets Christmas contains all the practical hints, tips and shortcuts to ensure that you can get the most out of Christmas!
Buying a house is perhaps the single most important decision that someone can make. A choice that can cost thousands, or millions of pounds. 1 in 3 housing chains break down, resulting in expense and heartache for all involved. The Chain explains and deconstructs the dreaded process by which thousands come a cropper each year and is the official companion to the primetime TV series, blowing away the myths surrounding buying a house, and educating us all in the arts of estate agents, lawyers and the murky corners of the housing industry.
Linked to the hilarious BBC2 series. Round the bend and over the edge – how far will you go to be a perfect parent? Does an impending child's birthday party fill you with performance anxiety? Did you spend more time on your child's homework last night than on your own employer's end–of–year report? Do you drop boastful hints about your child, saying 'George is so "busy"' – even though George is six? If so, you might be suffering from the madness of modern families. This book is a hilarious insight into the modern rat race that modern middle–class family life seems to demand. It asks, why have we acquired the skills of a black cab driver as we ferry our children from Monkey Music bassoon lessons to advanced trapeze? And why do four different children now require four different kids of pasta – leaving aside the pressure of children's birthday parties and the need to provide organic veggie Halal birthday cakes? Funny, irreverent and right–on–the–button, the book taps into a phenomenon that we've all recognised but haven't dared to speak out about. Until now...
