DON'T EVER…Use pet names Under no circumstances should you ever in public, never mind within earshot of his peers, use your child’s pet name Poodle Pumpkin. However cute and meaningful it may be in your household, chances are your child will be teased mercilessly, or an unsavoury...

Parents and children alike won’t have long to wait for high fashion design at affordable prices this autumn. Top British designer Stella McCartney is to launch her first childrenswear collections with GapKids and babyGap later this year. Mc

side, it can also add to tensions when the generation-gap stresses start to appear. After three hours on the road – and a slight (and unintentional) detour via the Brighton Road – we were all rather relieved to see the glorious sight of The Grand Hotel

cookery school. However, my real moment of inspiration came after the birth of my third child; on returning to the baby food aisles after a gap of nearly eight years, I was disappointed to find that little had changed. I decided to do something about it

into big muddy puddles rather than doing it themselves. A Natural Childhood report commissioned by the National Trust, found that fewer than one in ten children regularly play in wild places compared to half a generation ago, while a third have never