Most parents find toddlerhood the hardest time to fly, mainly because your child is big enough to climb around on the seats but not old enough to read, play Nintendo or watch the in-flight video (although portable DVD players are a godsend). So from 18 months until about four, co...

Five Ways To Help Babies Give Up Dummies 1. Pick The Right Time Start to restrict dummy use around six months old. Ideally dummies should be abandoned completely before your child starts to learn to speak as this will prevent speech problems2. Ease Your Child Off The Habit Start ...

Up until now you have been solely responsible for teaching your child everything they know. However, you are now at a point where you are giving someone else the authority to take on this important role. How you can let go and allow the teacher to take on their role:•    Be assur...

1. Mom’s One Line A Day: A Five-Year Memory Book (Chronicle Books, £12.99)What a great idea – it’s impossible to find the time for that half hour reminisce every evening, so why not just have this book at the ready for those snatched moments between feeds, while watching telev...

1. Cover the floor with newspaper, as this is a messy activity.2. Blow up a balloon; sit the end in a cup.3. Tear newspaper strips about 15cm long, dip them in papier mâché paste (one part flour, two parts water) and spread them across the balloon

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under the seat and you'll end up in an inelegant scrambling and with inconsolable child in tearsNoisy toys – they'll drive you and fellow passengers to distraction. Bring headphones if possible so games can be enjoyed in virtual silence

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(especially chaos)…The Starry, Starry NightGiving rise to floods of tears and jubilant cheers, there are few performances more moving than the school nativity play Sugar DaddyA personal friend of Barbie and brilliant perks of the job, why family life is sweet