Having a biting child can be not only be painful, but embarrassing, leading to exclusion from playdates, as well as “little chats” at nursery. However, there are easy steps you can take to limit your child’s tooth action to food.Babies may have sore mouths when teething, so provi...

-mannered child.” Worn correctly – with tucked-in shirt, an unrolled waistband, and a properly tied tie, of course – school kit is thought to keep bad behaviour in check and motivate learning.

. Pre-empting bad behaviour can be an extremely effective long-term solution throughout childhood, with prevention in most cases being, as they say, far superior to cure. 

cherub evokes a memory of one of them. They see only his cute face and view any naughtiness as the endearing behaviour of a spirited rascal. Befriend them, and they may even offer to rock your bawling baby for you while you eat.* The haughty business type

learn to cope with them. So if your child isfeeling miserable or worried, don't skate around the problem, or tell him tocheer up. One of the hallmarks of modern parenting is a tendency to protect childrenfrom everything that's bad in the world

’s the same with the child whose day has included something frightening that has made their world feel unsafe. When upsetting events occur, primitive alarm bells are triggered in the child’s brain, and high levels of cortisol and noradrenaline (bad stress

with their near-human qualities and various unseemly displays of behaviour sure to delight youngsters. And the beaches? To be truthful, the public beaches on the Costa del Sol are not all that great, although west, towards Sotogrande, there are great swathes

Potter novel has become one of the biggest selling books of all time. Not bad for a ‘sci-fi’ novel. This book introduces us to Harry – from his magical beginnings as a baby and his discovery, aged 11, of his strange potential as his life at Hogwart