Dilemmas & solutions

Whilst your career may have been your main focus pre-parenthood, you’ll take on another important role when you have a child. Many working parents struggle to find the right balance. When you’re at home, you may be worried about your growing workload and, when you’re in the office, you may feel guilty that you’re not with your children. If you want to create the perfect balance between career and parenting, take a look at these top flexible job roles. 

Dr Ivy Ge, author of The Art of Good Enough: The Working Mom's Guilt-free Guide to Thriving While Being Imperfect, gives some valuable advice to anxious new mums.

So, you have saved the money necessary for your child’s college education throughout the years, and your son or daughter has studied diligently for this opportunity. Now that the date is almost here for your precious child to leave home and go to university for a higher education from a prestigious institution such as the Universidade de Lisboa, the question is, have you covered all the basics to ensure your child’s safety abroad? asks Emily Roberts. 

This week is Maths Week, which aims to provide young people in England with a positive image of mathematics and contribute to changing the national attitude towards the vital and beautiful subject. To encourage confidence and a love of maths amongst young people Charlotte Gater, Head of Curriculum at Explore Learning, has come up with her top tips to help parents build their child’s maths confidence at home.

Why Will No One Play With Me? author, parenting and social skills expert Caroline Maquire introduces the Play Better Plan to Help Kids Make Friends and Thrive.

Research from leading Scandinavian nursery brand Stokke recently found that just half of us typically enjoy family mealtimes at the dinner table, Charlotte Stirling-Reed, a specialist in child nutrition working to help families create healthier and happier mealtimes, reveals the bad habits that we are teaching our children at mealtimes and how to do things right.

The route to success: four top tips for when your child’s exam results are unexpected by Samrita Hayer Careers Adviser at the National Careers Service Exam Results Helpline.

Joy Richards at Happy Beds shares her top tips for parents to create a perfect shared bedroom for their children. 

It can be challenging to raise a generous child in today's world, which is mostly filled with adolescents who have a "self first" mindset. But this is also precisely what makes this virtue all the more important. When kids are taught to be generous at a young age, they will adopt this attitude all their life. With that in mind here are five top tips to teach generosity to your child.

A recent survey by tonies®, an intuitive audio system for children, finds that 70 per cent of kids find it hard to fall asleep at night, with the average child waking up in the night five times a month. During National Storytelling Week, child psychologist Dr Kairen Cullen explains why storytelling is so crucial to the bedtime routine for children and parents alike.

How Much Screen Time Should We Allow Our Kids? The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) suggests parents approach screen time based on the child’s developmental age, the individual need and value the family place on positive activities such as socialising, exercise and sleep. Anne Coates adds some tips. 

New research released by preschool TV channel Disney Junior UK reveals that parents are losing 52 nights worth of sleep each year trying to get the children to sleep. Here Dr Claire Halsey gives her top seven steps to bedtime success for parents.

Jo Worgan is the author of four non-fiction works aimed at parenting children on the autistic spectrum, based upon her experiences as a mother of an autistic son. Picking up the Pieces, her second novel, has just been published by Urbane Publications. Here Jo shares some of what she learned to help those who may be on a similar journey.  

Amazon and Public Health England have today released the top 10 most common questions mums ask Alexa when it comes to breastfeeding troubles, in time for World Breastfeeding Week (1 to 7 August).

Deb Khan and Lisa Unwin – authors of She's Back – share their top tips for returning work after a career break. 

When a family member or someone close to you is diagnosed with Dementia, it’s always difficult to know what to do or how to approach the situation. Group Support Manager at Forest Healthcare, Chris Salter gives his ten tips to help facilitate conversation.

Seven years ago, crime writer Ian Patrick, author of Rubicon, was diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease. Here he explains how this has affected him as a parent.

Sarah Norris is one of the most accomplished and experienced maternity nurses in the UK. In her book, The Baby Detective, she aims to educate, guide and empower parents by leading them through her three-step problem-solving process: A*I*M: Assessing a problematic situation, Investigating the possible causes and Modifying behaviour in order to resolve it. Here she helps parents to create their own Problem Solving Toolkit.