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Children cannot be what they cannot see – or so the saying goes, writes Dilvin Yasa. What happens when they're seeing (and hearing) things you'd rather they didn't?  My Invasion of the Body Snatchers moment happened when my five year old decided to regale me with...

Cathy Watson finds that teaching her three-year-old son to ski is an uphill battle. Why did we do it? Skiing was something my husband and I enjoyed as single people and in our early years of being together, before children. Blissful, exciting, indulgent, expensive fun. These...

Vuly Play have these vibrant bikes that will make for a great toy for your 2-4 year old! Bikes have played an important role in childhoods for generations! This year-round activity is a fantastic way to get the little ones moving in a healthy and fun...

As mum’s, our lives are often filled with the demands of family, chores and work.  Time can be spent carting a carload of screaming children, making endless beds and talking to the boss with a small child attached to your hip.  Our minds and time are thinly...

Gary Bertwistle encourages us to foster our children’s natural ability to question, explore and imagine. From a very early age, our belief in our innate creativity and capacity for generating ideas and the quality of those ideas are influenced by those around us to make us...

After Vanessa Holt tries many different pets for her daughter, the perfect one slithers onto the scene. It’s the perfect pet. It doesn’t make a noise. It doesn’t smell. At most, we feed it once a week and it doesn’t leave a messy bowl. It’s content...

When it comes to the Tooth Fairy, Anthea Rowan tries to put her money where her mouth is. My children have a charming book that tells the story of a little girl who is on a quest to discover what the Tooth Fairy looks like. Her...

A daughter’s probing questions cause Karen Baumgart to ponder the nature of nudity in the home. It began with an all-too-tactile query from our two-year-old daughter: “What’s that?” she chirped merrily, making a grab for that part of my husband as he emerged from the shower....

There used to be five stages of human development writes Klay Lamprell: baby, toddler, child, teenager and adult. But over the past 20 years or so, in Western societies, a new stage has evolved: the tween. The tween stage exists in the spectrum between child and...