Last year I attended a local parenting course in Wandsworth to prepare myself for the challenges ahead of bringing up a teenager. We discussed a lot about ways to reward a child for good behaviour and / or excellent performance at school.
It is important to motivate children and reward them when they do something right or when they display emotional intelligence through a particularly sympathetic…
Every day we are faced with news reports telling us horrifying stories of people who have been killed or injured from violent attacks. This violence appears to permeate across all communities and we only hear a fraction of the incidents. In fact, it has been revealed that the police and courts in England and Wales are dealing with thehighest number of knife crimes in a decade. It’s a very…
New independent study from nationwide preschool activity class franchise, Toddler Sense, recentlypolling 1,008 UK parents with babies and young children, reveals that more than a third of parents felt pressurised for their child to take first steps. A further 20% of parents said family members were the worst culprits for making negative commentsabout so-called ‘late…
The Duchess of Cambridge recently visited a baby sensory class revealing how isolated she felt as a first time mum and how important community is.Multi-award winning, early years sensory experience provider, Baby Sensory, has partnered with charity, OnSide Youth Zones, to launch a new charity pilot ‘BabyZone’, aimed at making sensory classes available to low income and deprived families…
NEW figures that short sightedness amongst UK children has more than doubled since the 1960s, with almost 20% of under 16s now living with the condition, make eye watering reading for parents and carers.
Moreover experts believe it is environmental factors that are driving the change, rather than genetics.
So it is more important than ever that parents know the signs to look out for in children…
Most people have heard of postnatal depression (PND) only on a theoretical level. Likely, they perceive it as something that does not concern them (of course, unless they have a personal experience with it or a loved one who suffered or is suffering from this illness).
I perceived it the same way until it hit me hard. So hard that I ended up being on the verge between life and death.
That is when…
During a recent ski tripto the Isère region, I coined the term Social Skiing. As a non-confident skier, socialising on the slopes becomes almost more important than racing down the mountain. Every opportunity to meet people during social activities is essential to the success of a week in the snow. Even the most experienced skiers would agree that modern ski technology allows people…
Raising kids is one of the toughest tasks out there, and it can easily take up most of our time.Instead of drinking coffee with friends, going to a hair salon or enjoying our favourite show, now itseems like all we ever do consists of cleaning up after our little ones, cooking, driving them to schoolplays and football practises and helping them with homework. However, no matter…
Travelling can be a gruelling experience, even when you’re doing it on your own. Throw young children into the mix and it and be downright overwhelming. That said, while travelling with babies and toddlers can be tricky, there a few steps that you can take to help ensure it goes smoothly.
Plan ahead
I like being spontaneous but with young children it is important to plan ahead including…
Parents have a lot to fret about in these digital days. Newsletters from school and articles on the Internet coach us about monitoring our children’s activity and time on the Internet. But what if the greatest threat to children’s online well-being doesn’t come from strangers, peers, social media or screen time? What if the danger has less to do with their social media activity, and more to…