Supernanny star Jo Frost is without a doubt the UK’s most trusted nanny. In this book released in July 2011 she shares her tips to help raise toddlers with confidence and give them the best start in life.
The manual is packed with practical advice, reassurance and simple yet effective techniques to help parents deal with all the challenges that raising a toddler involves. I enjoyed…
Potty training is always a challenging time for parents. How do you know when your child is ready to potty train? How do you do it? How long will it take? For a parent potty training for the first time, it can be quite a scary prospect and any excuse to delay starting the process can be welcome.
Every child is different but usually, they show signs of being ready to potty train between the…
Safety advice for regular users of mobile phones and Wi-Fi devices – ideal for all parents.
Mobile phones, just how did we live without them? At about 80 million, there are now more mobiles than people in the UK. But since the Nineties, when their use became more widespread, there have been lots of nagging doubts about their safety and significant evidence now suggests that they pose a…
As every new mother knows, leaving your child with someone new is a scary experience. Every bone in your body says your baby should be with you, but there comes a time when you must take the plunge and allow yourself a well-deserved break and some ‘me time’.
We often get asked by parents of ways in which to make the experience easier and there are definitely some easy tips that will help…
According to Prof Steven Mithen, of Reading University, Neanderthal man communicated via sound songs long before he could speak language. You can bet your life that one of those songs would have been a lullaby.
Songs sung to babies have been around almost as long as babies have and it’s a simple, but incredibly effective way to bond. Babies first start to hear at around 20 weeks, so by the time…
Bedwetting is more common than most people realise. It affects up to half a million children and teenagers in the UK every night but, because no one talks about it, most people think they’re alone. Here are some tips to overcome the problem.
Something can often be done to overcome or manage bedwetting and ERIC is here to help. ERIC is the only charity in the UK dedicated to providing information…
If bilingualism is really important to you, and you really want your child to speak his second language, you should worry about it now, and wait no further, for 5 very good reasons:
1. Once you have established a parent-child communication pattern it’s very difficult and painful to change it. Later you might realise you can’t face the difficulties of imposing this change to your…