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Top tips for keeping kids safe in water

Top tips for keeping kids safe in water

Summer is coming and the combination of holidays, sunshine, water and children is a seductive but potentially lethal mix. Tragically, drowning is still the third highest cause of accidental death among children in the UK. Our friends at Water Babies, the world’s largest baby swimming company...
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An expert guide to coping with parents and in-laws thumb

An expert guide to coping with parents and in-laws

They love your child, they mean well...so why can handling your parents - and in-laws -...
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A guide to dealing with other people's kids thumb

A guide to dealing with other people's kids

So an unruly young visitor has complained about your 'nasty' cooking...and is now...
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Are your kids keeping you together? thumb

Are your kids keeping you together?

Are you and your partner more loved up than ever - or only sticking together for the sake...
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10 things parents are told to worry about but shouldn't thumb

10 things parents are told to worry about but shouldn't

Binge drinking, failing schools and violent crime - there's no shortage of scare...
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Tantrums and tiaras! thumb

Tantrums and tiaras!

Ok - let me preface this week's blog with the information that, as I type, I’ve...
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10 parenting issues that divide women thumb

10 parenting issues that divide women

There's nothing like raising a family to spark debate - so which side are you on?...
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Development tracker thumb

Development tracker

From the time your child takes those first steps to the moment when the teens sets in,...
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10 key questions to ask at parents' evening thumb

10 key questions to ask at parents' evening

When you're likely to have just ten minutes with your child's teacher, it's...
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Who rules the roost in your house? thumb

Who rules the roost in your house?

Who's calls the shots in your family when it comes to disciplining your kids,...
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Diary of a stay-at-home dad: Easter doesn't have to cost thumb

Diary of a stay-at-home dad: Easter doesn't have to cost

Next week is the Easter holidays and I have been asked lots of times about how I am going...
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Leave bedwetting high and dry this Easter thumb

Leave bedwetting high and dry this Easter

Bedwetting is a more common childhood problem than you might think. A fifth of five year...
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12 awkward parenting questions and how to answer them thumb

12 awkward parenting questions and how to answer them

So your child’s asked one of those questions that stops you in your tracks.
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Bedwetting myths thumb

Bedwetting myths

Is your child experiencing bedwetting? It can be a worrying time for all involved and a...
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Diary of a stay-at-home dad: not just a babysitter! thumb

Diary of a stay-at-home dad: not just a babysitter!

My wife is very lucky to have me, apparently. She knows this because wherever she goes...
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Win a home safety kit worth over £150 from Lindam thumb

Win a home safety kit worth over £150 from Lindam

We are offering two lucky iVillage.co.uk readers the chance to win one of two Lindam home...
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