Giving your toddler a kick start in learning
eni is a child psychologist with a successful coaching practice in Hampshire. She has over 25 years’ experience and is the author of What Children Need to be Happy, Confident and Successful,...
Primary Concern
As a new year of reception children start school, Lianne Kolirin asks whether five – or in many cases four – is too young to start in formal education.
A child’s first day at school...
The real cost of sporting success
The real cost of sporting success - Inc. video featuring mum of mother of Olympic medal-winning gymnast Louis Smith below:
Bringing up the next Lewis Hamilton or Andy Murray could cost parents an...
An Instrumental Decision
From tuneful tots to mini musicians, when you introduce your child to music, you bestow them with a gift for life.
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to...
Freedom to Learn
With the unprecedented population surge in recent years, the grassroots home education movement is simply thriving in Britain.
Home schooling is fast becoming a viable alternative for many parents wishing to shun conventional education,...
How to perform resuscitation and CPR on an infant
Having the knowledge required to carry out first aid on an infant can be vital, yet 81% of parents admit they don’t have the skills required to administer even basic first aid, with statistics...
A Life with Autism
hey say that having a child changes your life forever. When you have a child like Natan, it blows it away.”
For the first couple of years, Carine’s experiences of motherhood were just like...
Playground Mafia
Sarah Tucker explores the gossiping world of the playground mafia working under cover in our children’s playgrounds.
Having spent most of the past ten years at some time of the day in a...
Community Values
The word community is banded about very freely, often meaning particular interest groups as in “the artistic community”, “the rural community” and in many cases, “the school community”. The interesting question is what...
Eco-friendly parties
I can scarcely believe this, even as I write the words; the average children’s birthday party in the UK costs £129. In a recent survey, over 60% of mums admitted to spending between...
