Next week sees the naming of the third-ever Professional Nanny of the Year, when awards are presented by PANN at a gala dinner at the Professional Association of Teachers' annual conference in Oxford....
'In a constant search for things to test, we're forgetting the true purpose, the true nature, of reading and writing; and in forcing these things to happen in a way that divorces them from pleasure,...
Homelessness is at the highest level for 12 years, with 183 children losing their home every day, according to the charity Shelter.
I am the owner/manager of an 11-place day nursery and I would love to pay my hard-working staff what they are really worth. But the truth is I can't, because if I did I would go bankrupt and then...
Before lockdown, children from Tops Day Nurseries in Havant, Hampshire were visitors to Southlands Nursing Home. Manager Katie Duke said, ‘It is an activity the children have really missed.’ The...
When Clive and Sue Mabbutt returned to the UK after a spell living in the Philippines, they were both unemployed and had to make a speedy decision about how they were going to settle back into British...
'He was whistling away last night, walking up and down with the baby in his arms.' Another father reporting the reaction at hospital of former Beatle Paul McCartney becoming a father again at age 61
'Smacking is the convenience food of discipline: it's quick, easy, you can administer it on the go, but there's nothing good in it and the toxins hang around for years.' Allison Pearson, The Scotsman
'I have lived in several other countries and seen that nowhere rushes to put its children into school so early. This is a result of our anti-children, anti-family culture. We have no faith in children...
Reverting to less mature behaviour is often an indication that children are feeling vulnerable. Psychologists from the Anna Freud Centre offer advice on how to support them Regression, by which we...