How Children Learn

From advice on how best to deal with your child starting nursery to the importance of play, read articles on different areas of your child's development.

Creative Development

Help your child with their Creative Development.

Learning to Draw
Let's Play
Playing Together
The Importance of Roleplay

Knowledge of the World

Help your child discover the world around them.

A Change in Life
Colour Awareness
How Things Change

Mathematical Development

Help your child with mathematical development.

Mathematical Development
Maths for Parents
Starting Maths

Education and General Issues

Help on starting school or nursery and gifted children.

Starting School or Nursery

Literacy and Language

Help your child with their Literacy and Language.

Bookstart
Help your child read at home
Language Development
Learning a Foreign Language
Learning to Talk
Learning to Write
Listening, Speaking and Literacy
Reading with the Under Fives
Talk to your Baby

Musical Development

Help your child with musical development.

Listening to Music
Music Playtime
Music and Development
Music and language
Music at School
Music for Early Childhood
Musical Beat
Parents' Music Room
Playing Intruments
Rhyme and Reason
Tone Deaf