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Concern over cars and strangers keeps children indoors

Monday, August 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Traffic and a fear of strangers are preventing children from playing outdoors, according to new research by Play England.

A Parent's Guide to ... Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Features

Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Ann Langston explains the main aspects of Personal, Social and Emotional Development and offers advice on how parents can support their children

Fathers urged to talk to their babies

News

Monday, July 23, 2012

| Nursery World

Babies whose fathers engage positively with them at three months old have fewer behavioural problems at the age of one, finds a new study.

Sure Start works better for parents than for children

News

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Sure Start local programmes have had more impact on parents than children, the latest findings from the national evaluation of Sure Start show.

Children's centres must sharpen focus on parenting to boost child development

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Parenting and improving parents' lives should be given as much focus as children's health and development, according to new guidance for children's centres.

A Parent's guide to ... Physical development

Features

Friday, July 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Hear 'physical development' and you'll probably think of the health benefits that a good diet and lots of running around can bring your child. In fact, physical development is fundamental to every aspect of your child's life.

Bookstart campaign encourages parents to enjoy books with babies

News

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

| Nursery World

More than six out of ten parents of babies never share books with them, according to new research.

Interview - Andrea Leadsom MP

News

Friday, May 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Andrea Leadsom MP for South Northamptonshire and founder of the Northamptonshire Parent Infant Partnership (NorPIP).

Training to help staff support parents to manage children's weight

News

Thursday, April 26, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centre staff in Wandsworth and Lewisham will be taught how to raise the issue of tackling childhood obesity with families, as part of a new programme commissioned by the NHS.

Depressed dads pass on negativity to their babies

News

Friday, April 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Fathers with postnatal depression are more likely to pass problems onto their children as they tend to be more negative and focused on themselves, according to a new study.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Hard to part

Features

Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

If a child relatively new to the nursery shows troubled behaviour, think again about the process of settling in. Penny Tassoni offers some practical tips.

Parents learn from other parents how to deal with children's bad behaviour

News

Thursday, March 15, 2012

| Nursery World

Children with disruptive behaviour problems and their parents can benefit from peer-led parenting classes, claims a new study.

Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

News

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.

Poor parenting linked to 'bad behaviour' in young children

News

Monday, February 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Children whose parents use 'negative discipline' are twice as likely to have severe behaviour problems, according to new research.

Babies are people

News

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

All peope have rights, so what about babies' rights? asks Penelope Leach Ph.D, C.Psychol, FBPsS

Penelope Leach backs NSPCC babies' rights campaign

News

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The NSPCC is calling for babies' rights to be better protected under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), as part of its 'All Babies Count' campaign.

One in four babies in families with 'multiple risks' to development

News

Monday, February 6, 2012

| Nursery World

More than a quarter of children in the UK are growing up in families with a number of difficulties, including financial hardship and parental depression, that are risking their cognitive and behavioural development, according to new research.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Caught on film

Features

Friday, February 3, 2012

| Nursery World

An observational classroom study by Rachel Holmes, Maggie MacLure, Liz Jones and Christina MacRae can give practitioners some revealing insights.

'Natural' for breastfed babies to cry more

News

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Babies who are breastfed are more likely to be irritable than bottle-fed babies, according to a new study.

Secret to instilling a love of fruit and veg in young children revealed

News

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Children are more likely to eat the food on their plate if there are seven different items and six different colours, finds a new study.

New resource for practitioners to encourage parents to read with their children

News

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

| Nursery World

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education has launched a new campaign to help practitioners and parents instil a love of reading and books in children before they start school.

Positive Relationships: Working with Families - A visual journey

Features

Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Photographs taken by parents gave practitioners new insight into how children experience ways to communicate at home, says Elizabeth Jarman.

The Big Picture: The art of motherhood

News

Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Illustrations of mothers and their babies underwater are among works of art displayed in a new exhibition of the work of Quentin Blake at the Foundling Museum in London next year.

Study analyses children's tantrums

News

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's temper tantrums have the same pattern and rhythm to them, and when understood can help practitioners and parents to calm down children, suggests a new study.