As we near what is proving to be another quiet, yet highly eventful Christmas, I find myself looking back on the past couple of years. The COVID pandemic has been going on for so long now I find myself wondering what impact it is having on this generation’s child development.
Looking around the school playground a while ago, I made an interesting observation. I noticed that the Year 5 kids were almost all as tall, if not taller, than their mothers. In a few cases, kids of that age were also taller than their fathers.
I asked people with more parenting experience how to prepare a child for their first school residential trip. here’s what they said.
Just as the Christmas holidays have ended and children have gone back to school, The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has produced guidance saying screen time for kids may not be as bad as we all thought. I’m sure many parents would have preferred this guidance to have come out before the
Just before the kids broke up for the Christmas break, Mrs Adams and I received an email from Helen and Izzy’s school. It was a very simple message, but my heart has been aching ever since.
