• The Telegraph , Thursday, March 15, 2012 3 AM

As Mother’s Day approaches March 18, broadband provider Plusnet surveyed 3,000 mums and found that 80% of them go to parenting websites when they need parental advice rather than turning to their parents. Forty-one percent of mums shop online for food and do their banking each week to save time. Fifty-one percent research their children’s homework and 99% spend spare time surfing the web.

Jamie Ford, chief executive of Plusnet said: “Through this study we can see how vital the internet is when you are a parent - in fact even us Dads are partial to turning to the net, especially for things like help with homework.”

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