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- Making bedtime easier
- Children and the mobile phone! - an addiction, a necessity or just fun?
- Dolls are not just childs play for participants in the Babies Project
- 90% of parents appear to back smacking
- Saatchi Gallery investigated for displaying child porn
- Donating eggs to private fertility clinic almost ended in death
- Did you know? - An internet census of 50,000 children
- Half term takes its toll on the roads
- Freezing babies’ umbilical cords could save their lives in later years
- Babies born to older mothers have higher blood pressure
- Coil back under scrutiny as survey reveals it might cause infertility in some women
- Investors in Children scheme to rate nurseries and childminders
- When your child asks to get into bed with you...
- The craze continues - prepare for a new generation of Pokemon characters
- Painkillers administered during labour could inhibit early bonding between mother and child
- Putting too high a price on talent
- Birth survey makes revealing reading
- Government to provide one-to-one advisors for child runaways
- Ovarian grafts could help preserve fertility in cancer patients
- Children are increasingly being targeted by alcohol companies
- Fathers aged 45 plus more likely to produce children with schizophrenia
- Older mothers more likely to have caesarians
- School dinner menus to be overhauled
- Boy of four in bike rage incident
- The power of suggestion - TV ads are a major influence on children's 'wishlists'
- Teenager wins top child website award
- Research sheds valuable light into the minds of young bullies
- Choir schools struggle to fill places
- Foreign Minister voices concern for plight of Down's babies
- Schools embrace football based workbooks
- Mary Quinton – pioneer physiotherapist – dies age 88
- Baby hip dislocation check to be axed
- Government set to launch ‘baby bonds’
- Meningitis B vaccination begins trials
- Lottery criticised for ignoring needs of childrens' hospices
- Baby boy abandoned day after Mother’s Day
- Parents encouraged not to be paranoid
- Redressing the balance - one woman's positive experience of egg donation
- Coroner contacts car seat manufacturers about safety concerns
- Mother abandons three children in squalor to go on holiday
- Teacher falsely accused of indecent assault by pupil
- Lawyers seek to set triple child killer free
- Bully victim bully forced to leave because school couldn’t cope with his tormentor
- Is your carpet poisoning your child?
- Further evidence of child obesity revealed
- Family massacres hit headlines
- Children deemed to be not at risk from ‘footballer’s migraine’
- Hughes Syndrome held to blame for some cases of recurrent miscarriage
- Horses for courses - why a child’s position in the family influences future career choices
- London school to be policed full time
- Race attacks perpetrated by children as young as 8
- Mother could be prosecuted for daughter’s recurrent lateness
- Parents jailed for attacking headmistress
- Convicted baby-killer solicitor fights to prove her innocence
- Internet continues to corrupt thousands of young children
- Fear of poverty forces young Indian mother to try to murder newborn baby
- Parents accused of double standards in discipline expectations
- US research proves taller men have more children
- Health authority finally ordered to pay damages following negligence during boy’s birth eleven years ago
- TB found in London nursery school
- Controversial IVF treatment effectively creates two mothers
- No evidence to show girls are starting periods any earlier
- Parents admit to bribing children to pass exams
- Revolutionary juvenile arthritis treatment rationed owing to under-funding
- The top children’ toys - as revealed by child testers
- Abusive text messages targeted at children
- Having babies no longer a preferred ‘lifestyle choice’
- Mercury in child vaccines could be responsible for higher autism rates
- The cause of Cot Death and how to prevent it
- Spott: Cot Deaths of Maori twins entirely preventable
- Saving for your child’s future
- Should you or should you not give full fat milk to babies and toddlers
- Childalert support NAS in raising funds for Autism
- Choosing child care
- It's time to listen to the voices of the parents
- Teenager wins top website award
- Child pop star teams up with minister to warn children of road safety dangers
- Crawlers launches new baby and toddler knee protection
- Kids Talk - extra security for children
- Community Alerts launches national registration campaign
- Home Childcare - Now more affordable than ever
- Nanny tax break for middle class excludes nannies
- Lead Test - home analysis services
- The device which turns your mobile phone into a baby monitor
- Help your child to succeed
All parents want their child to succeed, but few know how they can best help. The result is Help your child to succeed; the essential guide for parents, published recently and already a best seller through bookshops and schools ...continued
- Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation competition
The Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation have put together a fantastic competition for children aged 10-14 as part of their StoryQuest festival which starts on Thursday 30th September.
Children have the chance of having their story read out on BBC Radi
- Mum has paint removed from home after fears lead could harm children
A Worried mother is taking steps to have lead removed from her home after discovering it can reduce children's IQs by up to 30%...click headline for more
- New campaign asks you to 'give life, give hope' to those with fertility problems.
The Department of Health today launched a new campaign to raise public awareness about the need for egg and sperm donation. The campaign encourages men and women to donate sperm and eggs in order to ‘Give Life, Give Hope’ to the thousands of couples who h
- Warning: working long hours can damage your health!
It’s time to change the way we live and work
A new Working Families’ report shows that the way we work today means many parents don’t eat healthily or take regular exercise. Half of the parents surveyed for Time, Health and the Family: What Working Fam
- Dr Miriam Stoppard on child immunisation
New Research Highlights Mums’ Anxiety Around Immunisation
Younger mums are particularly susceptible to immunisation anxiety. Over half of younger mums worry about child immunisations, compared to just a third of mums aged over 45. Even more worryingly,
- Dr Miriam Stoppard on child immunisation
New Research Highlights Mums’ Anxiety Around Immunisation
Younger mums are particularly susceptible to immunisation anxiety. Over half of younger mums worry about child immunisations, compared to just a third of mums aged over 45. Even more worryingly,
- Dr Miriam Stoppard on child immunisation
New Research Highlights Mums’ Anxiety Around Immunisation
Younger mums are particularly susceptible to immunisation anxiety. Over half of younger mums worry about child immunisations, compared to just a third of mums aged over 45. Even more worryingly,
- Half Term Apple Crumble and Safety in the Kitchen
Child Friendly Apple Crumble
All you need is:
50g butter or margarine
100g plain flour
50g oats
25g sugar
2 eating apples
50g sultanas
Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC or gas mark 5
2. Wash and dry yours and your child’s hands, plac
- Half Term Apple Crumble and Safety in the Kitchen
Child Friendly Apple Crumble
All you need is:
50g butter or margarine
100g plain flour
50g oats
25g sugar
2 eating apples
50g sultanas
Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC or gas mark 5
2. Wash and dry yours and your child’s hands, plac
- Half Term Apple Crumble and Safety in the Kitchen
Child Friendly Apple Crumble
All you need is:
50g butter or margarine
100g plain flour
50g oats
25g sugar
2 eating apples
50g sultanas
Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC or gas mark 5
2. Wash and dry yours and your child’s hands, plac
- Dads – ‘home safety heroes’ or ‘heads in the sand’?
- Dads – ‘home safety heroes’ or ‘heads in the sand’?
- Calling all you Yummy Mummy's
"As a mum of three I ( Patsy Palmer) know how difficult it can be to juggle a hectic schedule, there's always so much to think about and get done, but I also think it is really important to try and make some time for yourself and have some fun.
"That
- Calling all you Yummy Mummy's
"As a mum of three I ( Patsy Palmer) know how difficult it can be to juggle a hectic schedule, there's always so much to think about and get done, but I also think it is really important to try and make some time for yourself and have some fun.
"That
- Calling all you Yummy Mummy's
"As a mum of three I ( Patsy Palmer) know how difficult it can be to juggle a hectic schedule, there's always so much to think about and get done, but I also think it is really important to try and make some time for yourself and have some fun.
"That
- Happy Mother's Day on Sunday 14th March
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, many will be looking to buy their mum something wonderful for that extra special day.
And don't they deserve it!
A recent survey of 1,500 people asked what they appreciated their mums doing for them on a
- Happy Mother's Day on Sunday 14th March
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, many will be looking to buy their mum something wonderful for that extra special day.
And don't they deserve it!
A recent survey of 1,500 people asked what they appreciated their mums doing for them on a
- Happy Mother's Day on Sunday 14th March
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, many will be looking to buy their mum something wonderful for that extra special day.
And don't they deserve it!
A recent survey of 1,500 people asked what they appreciated their mums doing for them on a
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Russian mothers think nothing of plunging their babies into ice cold water or rolling them naked in the snow - even in temperatures of minus 15 degrees celsius or lower. It's a practice considered to have numerous health benefits for both mother and child, namely to boost the immune system and ward off disease. Adults claim it wards off ageing, with the stimulation produced by the extreme cold improving blood flow. Parents swear by the practice - one mother of two claims, 'The kids are healthy. They never get the illnesses that so many other children suffer from.' Another had no qualms about taking her three day old infant into the icy waters of St Petersburg, maintaining, 'My children never refuse to go in. I am so grateful to the cold water - it has improved my health a lot, and they never have problems.' Frequently, the ice treatment is taken following a session in a steam bath, where the temperature is very high so the body is subjected to enormous extremes of heat and cold.
UK Doctors do not advocate we follow the Russians' example. Dr John Henry, professor of Accident & Emergency at Imperial College School of Medicine, cautions, 'There'll be a death sooner or later. It's irresponsible and it's certainly not going to prevent any colds or flu’. Dr Henry points to the various dangers the Russian children are being exposed to, saying, 'A baby's body temperature will start to fall quickly as they're so small and thin-skinned. Their heart could stop, the could have breathing problems and, if they've just come from a hot pool, the change of temperature will be even more extreme.' His verdict? 'It's absolutely bananas.'
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