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From making Easter bonnets to non-uniform days, there is no doubt parents of school-aged children have a lot to juggle.
As schools return after the Easter break, many parents will be bracing themselves for another term full of dates for the calendar.
"I just can't keep up with everything," admitted Ruth Billingham from Cardiff.
She said life at home with her 10-year-old daughter Delyth often meant scrabbling around for a specific item of clothing, a pound coin or attempting to pull together a plate of party food when she had not been food shopping.
"We had a cake sale at the end of last term which in the end I didn't even contribute towards because I didn't even know about it," she laughed.
