Libby and her son Rohan, 4, love sharing treats and playing big make-believe games together. Find out what they thought about the Tender Leaf Fire...

Do toddlers notice skin colour? They certainly can. Research suggests that babies notice differences in skin tones within the first year of life – ...

October gives us two lovely opportunities to celebrate and talk about the wonderfully diverse world around us: Black History Month and Global Diver...

October gives us two lovely opportunities to stop and think about the wonderfully varied world our children are growing up in. It’s both Global Div...

Somewhere in late September, it happens. You look up from the washing-up and it is dark outside, and it is only just gone six. By the time the ...

It is nine o'clock. The children are finally asleep. And you are on the living room floor, rearranging the furniture in a dolls house, telling yo...

There is a particular sound that comes from a child doing a puzzle. Not much, mostly. A bit of shuffling, some muttering, the occasional sharp inta...

September has a way of making everyone want to get organised. New shoes, new pencil case, new resolve. And somewhere in the back of most parents’ m...

There’s a photograph almost every parent has. The child on the doorstep in a uniform two sizes too big, book bag held in both hands, grinning or gr...

Every parent knows the feeling. A toy arrives, is unwrapped with tremendous excitement, is played with intensely for about a week, and then vanishe...

Rainy Day Activities for the Summer Holidays It is the third week of the summer holidays. It has rained since Tuesday. The garden is a swamp, the l...

Ask most adults to describe their happiest childhood memories and a striking number of them happen outside. Building dens in the woods. Damming a s...