Books are a great way to teach your child about kindness. Here are a few of our favourites: by Sophie Beer This bright colourful board book is a great way to teach young children about kindness. by Natalie Pritchard and illustrated by Natalie Merherb A lovely, rhyming underwater story about a shy manatee starting […]
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National Children’s Day UK (NCDUK) is all about the importance of a healthy childhood, and how we need to protect the rights and freedoms of children and young people. Why is kindness so important? Because happy, healthy and kind children create flourishing societies. “This year we are not only promoting kindness, but we are prioritising
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Being a parent can make all of us feel a little anxious at times. There’s so much to think about and sometimes it can feel like we’re not coping well. For Mental Health Awareness Week in May 2023, Rethink Mental Illness will be looking at how anxiety can affect people living with severe mental illness, what
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We can all be affected by loneliness at different points during our life and being a parent can often make us feel lonely or isolated. Feeling lonely can leave us feeling embarrassed and low but it’s important to remember that feeling lonely is perfectly normal and that there is help out there to help us
This year National Share a Story Month is focusing on “A Feast of Stories” for 2024 Sharing stories together is one of the many joys of being a parent, but it can sometimes feel that there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Spending just 10 minutes a day reading and sharing stories can: increase
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Adult Learning Lewisham offer amazing Family Learning courses that promote health, wellbeing and awareness of our environment in a fun, creative and engaging way. They still have few spaces left for some of their courses that are starting this week and after half term. Adults attending with child can be a parent, grandparent or carer.
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Chickenpox is common and mostly affects children, but you can get it at any age. It usually gets better by itself after 1 to 2 weeks without needing to see a GP. Chicken pox is the varicella zoster virus. It is very contagious 1-2 days prior to the rash appearing up until rash scabs over
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Here at Lewisham Children & Family Centres we love our bees! A great way to encourage bees into your garden is to get involved with this years “No mow May”. It’s also a great way to get away without mowing your lawn for a month! Just letting your lawn grow for a month creates a
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Are you confused about how and when to move your baby onto their first foods – you’re not alone? Research from Office for Health Improvement and Disparities found that three in five parents (59%) said that they had found the decision on when to start weaning “confusing”. Two thirds (64%) said they had received conflicting
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Even very young children spend lots of time online. These top tips have been written for you (parents and carers) by the UK Safer Internet Centre to share, and talk about, with your children. It’s never too early to talk about life online! Parental Controls Making sure your child can’t access things that are not
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