The Baby Blogs Day 9 – Preparing Your Older Child for Your New Arrival

  A Happy Homecoming Siblings’ early days together are the building blocks for a long-term bonding process. Every child will react differently, so here are a few top tips to help promote positive sibling interactions. Pregnancy Preparations Tip 9. Talk & Teach. You can take advantage of your toddler’s natural fascination with babies by explaining […]

The Baby Blogs. Day 7 – Preparing Your Older Child for Your New Arrival

Having a new baby is very exciting but your older child may worry about what all the changes may mean to them as for the last year or two they have probably been the centre of your universe so it’s a good idea to prepare them for this exciting new arrival.  Pregnancy Preparations Tip 7. […]

Baby books that boost your child’s brain & teach them to love reading.

Here are a selection of  baby books that boost your child’s brain & teach them to love reading. With every page you turn, you’re stimulating your baby’s cognitive development and helping to establish a love of reading that will last long past their baby & toddler years. Baby books stimulate your child’s brain, bond & […]

The modern cult of child worship.

I was recently speaking on BBC Radio Warwickshire talking about the cult of child worship, where children become the absolute centre of their parents world in an unbalanced way, compared to past generations. From the moment babies are born – in fact, from the minute some Mums become pregnant – they obsess about every single detail of their […]

Have you ever bought baby “stuff” that you never used?

According to a new survey by Amazon Family a quarter of new parents spend up to £350 on baby purchases that they don’t use ! So I was interviewed by a number of parenting magazines to  BBC Three Counties Radio about my top tips for helping parents make better choices! Here are some of my […]

Practical tips for sleep problems

In this podcast Sue gives you some practical tips and ideas to help your child fall asleep, stay asleep and not wake so early!     [powerpress]   If you have found this podcast helpful and thought provoking please pass it forward to your friends, colleagues, schools and nurseries……. because as they say … “Alone […]