Nursery World - Terrific twos

Since the start of our campaign to support parents under stress and protect babies and toddlers, calls to the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000 have shot up by more than 50 per cent. The number of parents wanting further help from professionals has risen by more than 30 per cent, which shows that parents really do want and need more support. The challenge of ensuring that parents of young children have someone to whom they can turn when things get tough must now be on the agenda of all levels of society, from the Government to individuals like you and me.

The challenge of ensuring that parents of young children have someone to whom they can turn when things get tough must now be on the agenda of all levels of society, from the Government to individuals like you and me.

Our campaign now enters a new phase. We want to focus public attention on toddlers in particular and create greater understanding of their emotions and behaviour. There is no doubt that caring for toddlers can be a real challenge, and sometimes it can seem that they are winding you up deliberately. But they're not; much toddler behaviour is actually quite normal, not naughty. Toddlers test everything - boundaries, people and environments. It is their way of learning, making sense of the world and dealing with new emotions and experiences.

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