Communication
81 articles
How to Discuss Child Conflicts With Other Parents
When your child names another specific child after an incident at daycare, you may be tempted to call that child's parent yourself. Sometimes that is...
How to Discuss Your Child's Needs With Caregivers
The clearer you are about your child's needs, the better the care your child gets. This is especially true at the start, when no one in the room knows...
Bilingual Daycare: Benefits and Considerations
Bilingual nursery puts children in front of two languages during the years their brains learn language most efficiently. The research is clear: with r...
How to Align Home and Daycare Routines
When home and nursery run on completely different clocks, your child has to recalibrate their hunger, sleep, and behaviour every time they cross the d...
How to Ensure Consistency Across Multiple Caregivers
A child whose week is split between mum, dad, the childminder, and Grandpa is not confused by mum reading three books at bedtime and Grandpa reading o...
Talking to Teenagers About Mental Health
The statistics on adolescent mental health in the UK are sobering. 1 in 5 young people aged 8-25 had a probable mental health disorder in 2023, compar...
Stammering in Young Children: What Is Normal and When to Seek Help
A two-and-a-half-year-old who has been chatting away suddenly starts repeating "c-c-c-can" or getting stuck at the start of every sentence is showing...
Selective Mutism in Children: Understanding and Supporting a Quiet Child
Selective mutism is frequently misunderstood. Parents find it perplexing that the child who talks constantly at home is silent at nursery. Teachers so...
Parenting an Autistic Child: Practical Strategies for Everyday Life
Parenting any child well requires figuring out how that particular child experiences the world. Parenting an autistic child means learning a different...