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...
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...
(Photograph) - Redby out-of-school club has become one of the first clubs in Sunderland to achieve the Aiming High quality assurance certificate. The club, which has been operating for almost five...
'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...
'In school there should be time for reading that isn't work - children should enjoy it. Fun should be on the curriculum' Wendy Cooling, children's book consultant and former teacher and head of the...
'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
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...
'One moment I was an acceptable member of society, the next I was a stigmatised lone parent.' A man whose wife died when his child was aged 17 months, speaking at the Gingerbread conference in London
Nannies and childminders have been rated above nurseries as the highest-quality form of care for babies and toddlers, apart from their own mothers. Introducing the Families, Children and Childcare...