Parents are encouraging healthy eating by rewarding them with extra time on a games console, eating in front of the TV and a later bedtime. A study of 1,000 mums and dads of children aged 3-12 found seven in…
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We all know that home sports lessons matter for our kids. As well as providing all-important exercise, team sports are fantastic for helping with social skills, while activities like swimming can quite literally help to strengthen developing joints. The…
Learning new things — whether as a child or as an adult — can go a long way in helping to unlock new possibilities and horizons, and to help to unlock your potential in life. Ultimately, fun learning is…
Transition to uni can be challenging for both teens and their parents, but with the right support before and during, things can go smoothly. With both parties having to navigate a new normal potentially hundreds of miles apart, what…
Parents, child care professionals, and education professionals alike all understand that most children enjoy playing. Children will naturally start playing from being toddlers and continue playing throughout their childhood. However, play isn’t just fun. Encouraging children to play provides…
More than half of parents admit it’s a battle to get their children to wash their hands. A poll of 2,000 mums and dads of 3–16-year-olds has found they struggle to get their youngsters to wash their hands before…
One of the most important things you can do in life is to continuously develop new skills. Lifelong learning offers huge benefits to you. When you have a variety of skills, you are able to take on new opportunities…
Ahead of the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, Olympic athlete Greg Rutherford MBE explains how adults can replicate a child’s bedtime routine and why sleep matters. Greg’s bedtime routine includes at least 45 minutes of ‘no screen time’, a…
Isolation boredom may seem inevitable for our little darlings who are lucky to escape the painful side effects of contracting the Covid-19 virus. However, there are things to put in place to prevent it, and if that’s too late…
“Knowing my luck” is something I say far more often than I feel comfortable doing so. It shows an unhealthy amount of pessimism, and I don’t want that in my life. I suppose I’m Alanis Morrisette’s song, Ironic, personified…