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Identifying children's relationships with the adults in their home is no longer a matter of Bob's your uncle, says Mary Evans Family life in Britain today is often much more complicated than the...
Research linking them with preventing cot death has put the use of babies' dummies back under scrutiny. Annette Rawstrone hears both sides of the debate.
The inclusion of physical development as a Prime area of the revised EYFS will have a powerful impact on a child's emotional well-being and later learning, says Anne O'Connor.
Kicking off a new series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the first two key features of effective practice within the document: ‘The best for every child’...
Which hand we write with is not determined at birth, but our preferences lie in our prehistory and impact on our development. Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Kyra Karmiloff explain how.
The many ways that young children and adults give and receive messages without using words, and their importance for secure, social relations, are explored by Maria Robinson.
Movement play is vital to young children's cognitive development as well as physical skills, says Anne O'Connor
We expect young children to learn moral behaviour, but does it come naturally to them? Penny Tassoni looks at theories of development and good practice in the nursery
The importance of crawling to physical and mental development, and how to encourage it, is explained by Anne O'Connor and Anna Daly.