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Swimming Lessons for Young Children

Of all the classes you can sign your young child up for, swim lessons are the one with the clearest case behind them. Drowning is the leading cause of...

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How to Support a Child Who Is Reluctant to Play Physically

A cautious child at the playground is not a problem to fix — they're a child reading the situation more carefully than the daredevil next to them. For...

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Developmental Pool Games for Young Children

A pool is one of the few places where a toddler can move against real resistance, work on balance, and feel proud of themselves all in the same 30 min...

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Gymnastics and Movement Classes for Toddlers

Tumble Tots, Gymboree, council leisure-centre toddler gym, the parent-and-child gymnastics block at the local sports club — UK toddler movement classe...

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First Baby Swimming Sessions as Play

Baby swimming sessions have become a popular early activity, and for good reason — the pool environment offers a type of movement and sensory experien...

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Parenting

Why It's Important for Parents to Trust Themselves

Almost every new parent has this experience: a small thing happens — a feeding that didn't go well, a nap that got missed, a moment of impatience — an...

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Parenting

How to Trust Your Instincts as a Parent

"Trust your instincts" is one of those phrases that sounds reassuring and unhelpful in equal measure, especially at 2 a.m. when you can't tell if your...

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Parenting

How to Stop Comparing Yourself to 'Perfect' Parents

You spend a few minutes scrolling, glance up, and your own life feels diminished. The other parents look patient, organized, creative; yours looks fra...

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Parenting

Social Media's Effect on Parenting Confidence

There is a specific kind of self-doubt that did not exist for parents in 2005: the feeling, at 9pm with your phone in your hand, that everyone else ha...

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Parenting

Skills Parents Develop Over Time

Almost no one is good at parenting on day three. You hold the baby like she's made of glass, you read the book again at 2 a.m., you call your mom abou...

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Parenting

Building a Child's Sense of Competence

Watch a 2-year-old try to put on her own shoe for the fourth time. The tongue is folded under, the velcro is wrong, her face is doing the thing right...

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Parenting

How to Respond to Unsolicited Parenting Advice

Your baby is fussing in line and a stranger informs you they're hungry/cold/overstimulated. Your toddler is melting down at the park and a grandparent...

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Parenting

How to Reduce Working Parent Guilt

Working parent guilt operates on a closed loop. You feel bad at work for not being with your kid. You feel bad at pickup for not being more focused at...

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Parenting

Why Parental Confidence Reduces External Pressure

Something interesting happens when parents feel confident in their choices: external pressure becomes much less powerful. Someone suggests a different...

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Parenting

How Confidence in Parenting Decisions Is Formed

New parents often ask themselves, "How will I know if I'm doing this right?" The answer is that confidence isn't something that magically appears. It'...

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Parenting

How to Combine Science and Parental Intuition

The best clinicians use the same model parents need. They know the literature — what works on average, with what side effects, in what populations — a...

9 min read

Family Life

How to Handle Unsolicited Parenting Advice

"In my day, we never gave babies pacifiers," "You're holding her too much," "He should be sleeping through the night by now." Most parents with extend...

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Daycare

How to Say Goodbye Properly in the Morning

The goodbye is the moment of the day that your child will remember most clearly, and it is shorter than you think it should be. A confident 30-to-60-s...

11 min read

Parenting

Building Self-Esteem in Young Children: What Actually Works

The self-esteem industry has done children few favours. The generation raised on trophy-for-everyone participation awards and "you're so special" prai...

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