Most children love to make marks and draw with total abandon, leaving parents with a sizeable collection of artwork. It make this a wonderful period to observe children’s creativity, and their view of the world.

Getting a child to eat and drink a nutritionally balanced diet can be difficult. Hardly a week goes by without childhood obesity or another food issue being flagged up in the media.  Feeding children should be a simple task, but the reality for many parents is very different.

Handwriting is often misunderstood because parents confuse it with writing. While learning to write is, of course, linked to handwriting, the formation of letters and marks requires several physical skills, including hand-eye co-ordination.