I have rarely met a parent who did not, at one time or another, wonder if some aspect of their child’s development was “normal.” There are good reasons for this. Gone are the days when extended kin ...

Few stages are as important for the proper development of a child as the sexual stages. Because children are experiencing something profoundly new and unexpected (even if it is actually radically old ...

Netmums counsellor Emma Page explains why children might say they have no friends, what's normal at different ages, and when to step in. It’s the sentence every parent dreads hearing at pick-up: ‘I’ve ...

When it comes to understanding motor skills and language development, it’s important to understand the context in which an individual child is growing up. For parents, carers and teachers, it’s often ...