Community Posts, Tips & Support on Children's Activities

Hello everyone I live in an apartment complex (I am in the middle area) and my daughter has a friend that lives on one end of the apartments. I let her go to her friends alone sometimes because she has homework to do and they won’t know when she is done so I let her go and knock on there door like they do mine. Anyw...

Was planning a Christmas trip with the little one. Then thought about all the hassle and stopped planning. Just wondering those of you already been to a holiday with the little ones, how did you manage. Did you take steriliser with you? Or you used one time use bottles. Prob is the one time ones only do with stage...

Curious what everyone’s thoughts are as I’ve seen a lot of differing opinions! I don’t mean like let them go outside and have at it for hours, but checking in on them here and there. And this is pertaining to a safe neighborhood and a home with front yard and neighbors you trust.

My son saw Santa yesterday at a holiday fair and clearly didn’t know who he was lol. I want to buy him some books that teach him about Santa Claus to get him excited. Does anyone recommend any? Or something else?

Do boys likes to play with their play kitchen and food toys and stuff?

Watching my 5 year old do his online kindergarten class and realizing how much I have messed up with my kids. He doesn't know how to read or write. He doesn't know his ABCs. I can't get him to color or draw pictures. Struggling with his older brother to just try to get him through school and wondering if I should pu...

Any fun ideas to help my daughter with reading and writing after school ? She thinks I will do the work for her and throws out words when she’s reading sight words and etc . Help

My school age child has a disability so we have been really working hard on trying to teach him when and how to dial 911 or talk to our very trusted neighbor for help. It’s a slow process but we are coming along.

What’s everyone getting their toddlers for Xmas this year?

So my little boy is two the end of this month and I need ideas on where to go for his birthday I’m so stuck on where would be a good day out specially because it’s getting cold now! Any suggestions would be amazing!

Hello all, can you recommend any activities or playgroups for my 17 months LO in Maidstone area. Thank you

Hi everyone, does anyone know of any free baby classes in/around Forest Hall/Longbenton? If not I’d be happy to pay for some in the area I just remember my HV mentioning some but no clue about the exact ones! My little one is seven weeks

Hello mums we are turning 14 months in a while and i was thinking. Is any classes for that age or activities? Areas around Feltham We go out a lot at the park and we have fun at home but at some point she gets bored. She just started walking.

Hi How do you discipline your 3 year old? I feel at the moment he is acting up a lot, tantrums etc, getting a ready in the morning is an absolute mission. I think he needs discipline as this is just bad behaviour. Any suggestions?

I'm a bit stuck on what to get my 2 year old for Christmas. He has loads of toys, but none that he can REALLY play with if you know what I mean. We're going to donate a good load of his old toys to charity but I'm not sure what else to get him that he can use his imagination for or what he can learn with. He has num...

So LO is 8mnths old (FTM) my partner thinks we should buy a travelcot so next year we can leave baby at grandparents house and go away for a night or weekend, I can't see myself actually wanting to do that, in my mind if we did that I think baby should be at home and they should stay at ours as we have a spare room...

My sister came over with my nephew for the holidays. The kid is literally jumping around the whole day and had managed to break a sofa. I am not even gonna talk about how many times he woke up my baby.She's never telling him anything even though I asked her.He is 8yo ,he's not that small either.My landlord had to ...

How do you deal with your child "playing dumb" when you ABSOLUTELY know that they're capable of doing something but they Just. Won't. Do. It. I end up wasting 3-5 HOURS trying to convince my child to TRY to write 6 letters in cursive. Like won't even put the pencil on the paper REFUSES to try. I'm feeling like I can...

Hi all! My 9mo doesn’t play alone in his playpen anymore, he comes up to the mesh and cry for us to come back in and as soon as we sit inside he goes up playing with his toys. Any idea on how to support him to play independently? We have tried letting him cry for a bit but he doesn’t stop until we either pick him up...

I really thought Manchester would be loaded with great classes once I'd go on maternity leave, but either it's fully booked or you have to sign up for and pay in advance for 5 classes you don't know if you'll even enjoy. Can anyone recommend some good Mum and baby yoga or baby massage classes in Manchester? Either i...