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Sleep - babies and toddlers

Sleep is just as important as food and exercise - we all need to get enough, but it's especially important in the first years of life. Here are some tips based on information from professionals and parents.

Child's play

All parents want the best for their children - and one of the best things is play! All children can play, no matter what their age or ability. Here are some tips to help you and your child play.

Starting primary school

Going to school for the first time is a big event for children. Their life is going to be a bit more serious from now on. Here are some tips on making it less worrying for them and you, and a bit more fun.

Starting high school

This is an unsettling time for children. They're looking for more independence but at the same time feeling unsure of themselves. Read our tips for some advice on helping them make the move to high school.

Parenting teenagers

Most parents and families have a hard time with their teenage sons and daughters at some point. Knowing this doesn’t make the ups and downs any easier to handle. Our ten top tips might help to smooth the way.

Sex, relationships and teenagers

Finding the right moment - let alone the right words - to talk about sex and relationships with your children is daunting for many parents. If you’re not quite getting there, have a look at our tips.

Starting primary school - easy read

Some useful tips to help make starting school easier for you and your child.

Introduction

Policy panacea to cure all society’s ills or the cause of them? Parents and how they parent have been under scrutiny in recent years. Parents get a negative press; overwhelmingly, that standards in parenting are declining. Is this the case? Or, in fact, is the job of parenting getting harder in an increasingly complex world? Whichever is right, both suggest that parents could do with more help. Clare Simpson of Parenting across Scotland introduces this collection.

Parenting

Being a parent is not about a set of rules to follow to produce a happy, well-adjusted young person. If it were, in some ways, it would be a lot easier. In others, it would be far less interesting. Whoever the parent is (including the state as corporate parent), families are essentially about relationships and how people relate both within their families and from them to the wider world. At its best, parenting is about love, kindness and caring. For many parents, particularly those in difficult circumstances, this is not easy to achieve and they may need extra help. This section looks at what it means to be a parent; being a father; how differing family backgrounds affect people; and how different countries help families.

Parenting: a life-course approach

Clare Simpson opens this essay collection by making the case for a national parenting strategy which creates the conditions for parents, and their children, to succeed.