The Best Thing in Your Baby Class Might Not Be the Activity You arrive at a baby class and there’s a lot to look at. Perhaps there’s a beautiful sensory tray, puppets popping out of a story, bubbles floating overhead or something wonderfully messy that you’re already calculating the chances of getting out of […]
Can Reading to Your Baby Strengthen Your Bond? The Story Starts Long Before They Understand the Words There are some parts of having a baby that don’t look quite like the version you imagined. You pictured peaceful cuddles. Your baby occasionally has other ideas. You pictured gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. They’re staring […]
When Will My Baby Smile at Me? The Social Skill That Starts a Relationship For weeks, you have fed them, held them, changed them, worried about them and watched them sleep when you should probably have been sleeping too. You have given your baby almost everything you have, often on very little rest, and received […]
How to Help Your Baby Develop Fine Motor Skills Through Play Your baby reaches determinedly towards a sensory prop, grabs it with their whole hand and immediately puts it in their mouth. It might not look particularly sophisticated, especially when the prop then gets dropped, retrieved and dropped again. However, an extraordinary amount of development […]
Bank Holiday with a Baby: Why Parents Need a Village Before having children, a bank holiday often meant a lie-in, a spontaneous day out or the delicious feeling that Sunday had somehow been granted an encore. Then you become a parent. A bank holiday with a baby can look remarkably similar to every other Monday. […]
Why Do Babies Love Being Swung? The Hidden Sense That’s Busy Building Their Brain It’s late August, and if you’re anything like most parents, you’ve probably spent a surprising amount of the summer lifting your little one into the air. Again. And again. Perhaps you’ve carried them on your shoulders around the zoo, gently swung […]
How to Bond With Your Baby: Why That Overwhelming Love Is Helping Their Brain Grow There are moments in parenthood that are impossible to explain until you’ve lived them. You find yourself staring at your sleeping baby for no reason at all. You show friends another photo even though they look almost identical to […]
How Do Babies Learn? What Your Baby Is Really Doing When They Seem to Be “Just Playing” Have you ever watched your baby spend five minutes dropping the same spoon onto the kitchen floor and wondered why they find it so fascinating? Or perhaps you’ve hidden behind your hands during peekaboo for what feels like […]
