A museum designed to appeal to a child’s fun-loving curiosity? What a cracking idea! Inspired by the ground-breaking children’s museums of North America, Eureka! takes a play-based approach to learning. The six amazing galleries are filled

, or practise dressing a soft toy. There are also books about getting dressed  to familiarise your child with the routine. Recommended titles include Buster Gets Dressed by Rod Campbell and Black Dog Gets Dressed by Lizi Boyd.   More lifeskills from Junior

Outdoor GamesFrom kite flying to cricket, we round up the very best family games to entertain the troops Bring Back FreedomGive your children some space for carefree roaming in the great outdoors and they'll learn about the joy of having adventures

it really entail, and is it right for your child?Lessons in LoveRomance is in the air at nursery schools across the land, so how do children learn about love?The TechnocratsMeet the wired-up clan who are the aristocrats of all things technological

We are so proud to tell you all about our Junior Design Awards, the only awards that recognise excellence in style and design – and everything beautiful in a child's life. We had an overwhelmingly positive response to our inaugural awards, and we

telling off. Young boys are often full of bravado and tend to take failure more personally than little girls. If your child has a disappointment, point out all of the things that he did well and encourage him to learn from his mistakes, ensuring any future

study showing that children learned to swim well at the same average age of five-and-a-half years, regardless of whether they began lessons at two, three or four. How your child progresses shouldn’t be your main concern as some children naturally need

Psychologist Sylvia Rimm conducted a survey of 1,000 women who had achieved success in their careers and happiness in their personal lives to find out what they have in common. Here are her guidelines for raising happy, succesful daughters:1. Set

YOUR CHILD WILL begin to grasp the concept of gender as early as nine months, when boys start selecting male super-hero dolls and girls prefer baby dolls and household objects. This is generally because boys have higher levels of

love to experiment. They get a real kick out of working things out for themselves.Your job Finally, you’re more likely to have a gifted child if you or your partner are involved in: engineering or electrical engineering, IT or computing, science