How to be a Better Uncle and get £10

Part of the Wicked Uncle series on How to be a Better Uncle (or even better aunt).

1. Become an Astronaut, or possibly a Formula 1 racing driver.

2. Have a constant fund of stories to tell small people (preferably not involving things their mothers would disapprove of. Like vampires.)

3. Take them to really cool places on days out.

4. Remember their birthdays.....

We can't help you with 1., as for the rest....

Stories - It is impossible to remember enough stories and you can't be expected to walk around with a kid's library in your pocket, however there is a brilliant solution out there. Storynory have a website with 00's of brilliant stories. You can download them as audio files or just read them straight off the website - absolutely free. All you need is your smartphone. They have also done some great stories about a character called The Wicked Uncle.

Really Cool Places - here we need some help. We want to send out a list of great places to go. If you have had a successful day out or found a brilliant place to take kids on holiday, let us know, we will include it in our list and send you a £10 Wicked Uncle voucher. We then send the list out to everyone in our next email.

Birthdays - use our birthday reminder service. We send you a reminder and some age related ideas. Or try our Club concept, where we do the whole thing including choosing and sending the present - like one of these. (BTW Not real shoes, actually really smart speakers).


Happy Uncling,



The Wicked Uncle Cuddly Self Improvement Team

PS Some random computer jokes for the technically minded:

Two computer programmers are driving on a motorway. They switch on the radio and there is a warning: Please note that a car is driving on the M1 against the traffic. The programmer near the driver looks at him and says: One? There are hundreds of them.

Definitions: PEBKAC = problem exists between keyboard and chair. Otherwise known as an ID Ten T problem.

Two male computer science students met on campus one day. The first student called out to the other, "Hey. Nice bike! Where did you get it?"
"Well," replied the second student, "I was walking to class the other day, when this pretty, young coed rides up on this bike. She jumps off, takes off all off her clothes, and says, 'You can have ANYTHING you want'."
"Good choice." said the first computer science student. "Her clothes wouldn't have fit you anyway."