Ready Steady Lunchbox by Lucy Broadhurst (Murdoch Books, £12.99) is packed full of recipes for even the fussiest eaters, this is perfect if you are stuck for school lunch-box ideas or if you’re a budding junior chef wanting to have some fun in the kitchen. There are also deliciou...

Count Dracula may have been created by Bram Stoker in 1897, but many believe he was based on Vlad the Impaler, who existed four centuries earlier. He was originally from Transylvania (now Romania and Hungary). Like Dracula, goulash hails from eastern Europe. It was first made in ...

mouths when teething, so provide teething toys to chew on to relieve the pain.Biting is often a way of expressing frustration. Help give your child the words to express his feelings instead of using his teeth, such as, “You’re angry because you want

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• Start early – a six-month-old baby is likely to be a lot more compliant than a one-year-old.• Create a new bedtime routine full of comforting features such as soothing music in the bedroom, cuddles, a story and a cup of milk before teeth cleaning

his teeth, introduce a song into the process, so for instance, sing: "This is the way we brush our teeth" to the tune of Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, and keep up the ditty for the requisite two minutes . Your child will be so engrossed he won

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he sinks his teeth into her arm, Max runs aways, gets into a boat and floats off to a fantasy island inhabited by the Wild Things – a motley crew of attention-seeking beasties, given names like Judith, Douglas and KT, who are also prone to throwing

remembering to do this when brushing your teeth could save over 500 litres of water a month6. Take showers instead of baths  The average shower takes around five minutes and uses 35 litres of water compared to 100 litres for the average bath. 7. Switch to low

chemical methods only managed a poor 20 per cent. Always use a special nit comb, such as a Nitty Gritty NitFree comb, as it has teeth much closer together, and use conditioner to help the lice and nits slide off more easily. Do this at least every four days