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Bedtime Routines for Children After One Year
The infant bedtime routine — bath, feed, dim light, cot — runs on autopilot. The toddler routine does not. Past the first birthday your child has lang...
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Reading as a Play Activity for Young Children: How to Make Story Time Work
Reading to young children is the activity every parenting source recommends, and one of the few where the evidence is genuinely strong. What gets less...
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Story Time for Babies Under One
Parents often wonder whether there is any point reading to a baby who can't understand the words. The answer is an emphatic yes — but for different re...
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Story Time for Babies Under One
Reading to a baby who cannot follow a story feels strange — and the natural response is to skip it. Don't. The American Academy of Pediatrics has been...
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Toy Books and Lift-the-Flap Books
*Where's Spot?* sells around 60,000 copies a year in the UK alone, four decades after publication. The reason isn't nostalgia; it's that an 11-month-o...
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Interactive Reading for Toddlers
A 2-year-old being read *The Very Hungry Caterpillar* will, given the chance, have plenty to say about it. Most of us read straight through anyway, be...
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Parenting
How to Introduce Books and Stories to Build Empathy
When your child watches a character struggle, fear, hope, or feel disappointed—and you talk about what that character might be experiencing—something...
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Development
Early Literacy: Building the Foundations for Reading Before School
Children who arrive at school unable to read are not failing — they are about to start learning. But children who arrive with a rich vocabulary, the e...
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