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How can you help your toddler with their speech development, and encourage them to be talking and chatting? We have some great ideas for you.

Tips to encourage your toddler’s speech development

In this week’s hangout with Beckie Whitehouse, we are talking about speech and how we can help our toddlers with their speech development. First words are usually spoken at …

Teaching our kids about road safety is something we should be doing from an early age. The sooner the better. Here is some advice on how to help our kids stay safe on the roads.

How to encourage road safety in your kids

With millions of cars on the road (and even more roads being built) road safety is even more important to teach your child and this week it is the focus …

Building confident kids is something we all aspire too - helping our children be confident in life, friendships and themselves isn't easy - but here are ten great ways to inspire confidence in your children.

10 ways to help build confidence in your kids

We all want our children to have a healthy confidence. We want them to feel happy about who they are and what they stand for. We want them to …

So - what do you do if your kids are going to get a new sibling, and a new baby is going to enter the calm (cough) or your home? Here are some ideas to help introduce the idea of a new sibling to your little ones.

Preparing a child for a new sibling

Welcome to another parenting tales from the sofa hangout with myself and Beckie Whitehouse where today we are discussing how to prepare your child the the arrival of a …

It isn't easy - even for an adult - dealing with disappointment, whether it s lower grade, a different class, or just something more simple. Here are some ideas to help out kids deal with those slightly tougher times....

How to help your child deal with disappointments

This week, with Beckie Whitehouse, we are talking about facing disappointment. As adults we often face disappointments in our lives and it is just the same for children, especially …

Here are some thoughts to help us cope, and them understand and deal with it better too.

How to help your kids cope with loss

When we lose someone close to us it can be very difficult to know how, or what, to tell our children especially when we are dealing with our own loss. …

Sibling rivalry can mean that your kids just don't get on - it isn't an easy thing to deal with...but this should help with some great ideas on how to deal with it - in graphical form to so even I get it!

Sibling rivalry: How to help your kids get on

Siblings are meant to be built-in best friends for life, from cradle to grave, but even siblings who love each other dearly can fall prey to sibling rivalry. When two …

Building a child's confidence and their self esteem is something that we all strive to do as parents. It isn't easy to teach confidence and inner self-esteem though, so here are some tips to help out.

How to help your child be a self esteem Superhero

Welcome to another parenting tales from the sofa where, as always, I am joined by Beckie Whitehouse of Be Confident Coaching to share her wisdom and advice. This week …

We have been lucky enough to attend an important event on online safety here in the UK - and this is whatb we have learnt...some great tips on how to manage your child's presence online, and stay safe on the internet.

How to manage your child’s presence online: Six rules for staying safe online

Following attendance at a conference for KiddyCharts a few month’s ago, I have put together a guide on ‘How to manage your child’s presence online.’ There are a number of key …

Do you want your kids to have good manners? We chat about how you can encourage good habits from an early age and beyond, so they are polite.

Good manners: How to help our kids be polite little people

Welcome to another hangout on air and this week we are discussing teaching our children good manners. Good manners aren’t something that kids are just born with of course. …