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Parents losing confidence in playtime
Parents have forgotten how to play with their children meaning kids could be missing out on learning vital life skills, reveals research in a new report commissioned by the makers of Ribena Plus. Mums and dads are suffering a ‘play confidence crisis’ and handing over their children’s crucial play development to electronic gadgets. Top findings…
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Tagged Child development, Children, News, Parent, Play, Playing, Ribena
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Half of expectant parents don’t feel ‘financially prepared’
How financially prepared are you for a baby? New research from the UK’s largest discount website has revealed that more than half of expectant parents don’t feel ‘financially prepared’ for the birth of their baby. Of these, the majority felt that they didn’t have enough ‘incoming money’ to support a baby. As part of ongoing…
Posted in Money matters, News, Parenting
Tagged Baby, Financial advice, Income, Money, Money matters, newborn, News, Parent, Parenting
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Separation anxiety and your baby
Most parents will be familiar with the distressing sight of their child crying when they leave them at nursery or with a carer but this doesn’t usually mean there is anything to worry about. In fact it is a very normal part of your child’s development. Separation anxiety Child psychologists define separation anxiety as referring…
Posted in Baby Care, Behaviour, Child Development, Toddler development stages
Tagged 7 months, Baby, Child development, Crying, Nursery, Parent, separation anxiety, Sibling, Toddler, why
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Bringing up a bilingual baby
Can your cooing bundle become a multilingual master? Sam Pope looks at how you can bring up a bilingual baby. From the very beginning… Your baby has been exposed to language even before you ever thought about helping her language skills after birth. In the womb, your baby has listened to your voice and learnt to…
Posted in Baby, Child Development
Tagged Babbling, Baby, bilingual, Child development, Language, Language development, Multilingualism, Parent, second language, talking
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Handbook for dads
10 September 1999 On Friday, September 10th, Minister of State for the Home Office, Paul Boateng, launched a ground-breaking Guide to Fatherhood, aimed at new fathers and fathers-to-be. The Guide has been put together by independent information service Fathers Direct. It challenges the traditional view that parenting is solely a job for women and features,…
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Tagged Divorce, Family, Father, Fatherhood Institute, Marriage, Minister of State, Parent
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Parental Leave Illegal?
New parental leave brought in for mothers and fathers of children born after December 15, 1999, was illegal, a prominent lawyer has claimed. The Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Booth, herself currently pregnant with her fourth child, has advised the Trades Union Congress that the government’s new Parental Leave Directive was not implemented properly because of…
Posted in News, Work Pregnant
Tagged Blair, Cherie Blair, Congress, Divorce, Family, Family law, Father, Marriage, Parent, Parental leave, The Prime Minister, Trades Union Congress
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My two dads
14 December 1999 My two Dads A PAIR of twins has become the first ever British children to be registered with two fathers and no mother. Aspen and Saffron Drewitt-Barlow, born by caesarean section on Thursday, have been registered with fathers Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow as parent one and parent two. The gay couple…
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Tagged Barrie Drewitt, Divorce, Family, Father, Mother, Motherhood, Parent, Saffron Drewitt-Barlow, Surrogacy, Tony Barlow
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Parents Week
This week saw the launch of the first annual Parents Together Week, organised by the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI). The week aims to celebrate parenting and recognise the value and importance of being a parent The week was launched by Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Booth QC, who introduced the NFPI’s guide to legal…
Parents Want Supernannies To Raise Their Children
Busy parents are employing supernannies to fill the role of surrogate parent, language and music teacher, nurse and personal chef to their kids. The study published by Gumtree, a recruitment site for nannies, found that parents are paying over the odds and offering expensive perks to entice nanny extraordinaires to work 12 hours a day…
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Tagged Childcare, Childhood, Family, Family & Parenting Institute, Nanny, Parent, Parenting Institute, teacher
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Dads work harder for sons
12 July, 2000 NEW fathers work harder after having children, but they put in more hours if their child was a boy than if she was a girl. On average, men work about 40 hours more a year after each child – and their hourly earnings increase by about 4.5% per child, with the effects…
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Tagged Divorce, Elaine Rose, Family, Father, Fatherhood Institute, Marriage, Mother, Parent, Parental leave, Royal Economics Society, University of Washington
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