With the cold weather, thoughts turn to Christmas time, playing in the snow and drinking hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day. However, along with all of the fun things comes cold and flu season. There is nothing more pitiful than a little one with a runny red nose and a temperature. You can, as ...

In today’s world more than any other time it is important to instill in your child a sense of responsibility. Teaching them young will help them when they are older to have a sense of independence and never to depend on someone to do things for them. Teaching your child to be responsible for themselves ...

Being a parent is a full time job as it is, without constantly having to pick up toys and other items behind your children. Stop doing the back breaking job yourself and teach your little ones to pick up after themselves by following these simple steps. You do have to do these more than once so that ...

Most households have at least one child that has very picky eating habits. It can be tiring trying to get toddlers to eat healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables, rather than pizza and chicken nuggets. So how do you coax a toddler into eating something that is good for them instead of just what ...

While Halloween can be a lot of fun for children, the controversy surrounding it can also confuse them. If they are in school you can be sure they will hear many different views on how Halloween came to be and just as many people will tell them that it is a tradition that shouldn’t be celebrated. ...

Halloween is a time to dress up, bob for apples and have a great time. That is easy to do with the older kids but toddlers are a little different. Yet as a parent we don’t want to leave them out of the fun. Below are some tips for a few fun things you can do to help your toddler feel as big as ...

As Halloween approaches our kids will be getting excited about dressing up as skeletons and witches and of course, all the lovely treats they will be getting on Halloween. Their thoughts are only on the fun and games that Halloween brings, while parents worry about all of the dangers it can bring ...

It is very encouraging to any parent who loves to read themselves for their children to love to read also. But children being children they will get bored quite easily. That’s when you have to think of creative ways to encourage their love of reading and keep them enthralled. Yes, books do take ...

Not untypically, the British summer is proving something of a damp squib this year. Which makes keeping the kids entertained all the more challenging. However all is not lost because there’s a plethora of great children’s movies hitting UK multiplex’s this summer which could just prove the ...

I have always been a lover of picnics. I enjoy the whole process from visiting the delicatessen and selecting tasty morsels, such as olives stuffed with lemon and sun dried tomatoes to baking a cake and making salads and quiches, and even on one occasion homemade lemonade.

The Bank Holiday ...