Over recent weeks parents have been bombarded with learning materials from schools, nurseries and others for home schooling their children whilst families are confined at home during this period of ‘Lock Down’. Concern about the impact the unprecedented restrictions of ‘Lock Down’ have on children’s emotional wellbeing and their development is understandable, and not to…
Children being at home with their parents has revealed some worrying attitudes in Britain. How often have broadcasters talked about the awfulness of having ‘kids under your feet all day’, of the exhaustion of being expected to entertain them, and the mother who said her two-year-old would be distraught not being in daycare and having…
COVID-19 is having massively negative effects on the nation’s health, indeed, on our whole way of life. New dimensions in our relationships undoubtedly will be forged through the unexpected challenges we face. Indeed, in a fundamental way, the impact of this pandemic could cause a recalibration of what we previously thought we prized most in…
The survey launched by the Duchess of Cambridge has been designed to provide evidence on how the nation thinks about early years and to what extent early brain development is understood by the general public. A similar, albeit much smaller opinion survey undertaken by What About The Children? in 2018, found that public understanding about…
The positive effects of free early years education from the age of three are many; however, to apply the same rule of thumb to babies of nine months is misguided and not based on the evidence on early brain development. In the first years of life, from conception to age three, the brain is growing…
It’s concerning how, with increasing regularity, print and broadcast media calls for special sympathy and understanding for one particular group in society … PARENTS! Yet parenthood is a ‘natural’ role and doesn’t happen by fiat. As never before in history has ‘parenting by choice’ been more available. However, notwithstanding that most parents have opted for…