A big welcome to our iChild blog! With regular posts from both the iChild team and our specialist iChild bloggers on absolutely everything that matters to the parent, childminder, teacher or anybody who works with children aged 0 to 11.
Blogger, "Next Best Thing to Mummy", worked as a childminder for 14 years, until ill health forced her to give up. She's been employed as a preschool develoment worker and by the children's centre as a support childminder. Here she shares her experience on dealing with children who bite!
We are proud to support Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, and grateful to the Comic Relief Fundraising Lead for writing this great article for our iChild blog.
iChild is delighted that Miffy has hopped onto our website. Miffy's resources are perfect for nurseries to use in their baby, toddler and preschool rooms, childminders will also find them useful – and we know parents will love them! This blog offers an insight to Miffy's history.
Our guest blogger, Henry Brookman, is a divorce lawyer and senior partner at Brookman. This article shares advice on caring for our children during the often painful and difficult times of separation.
Blogger, Midwife and Life, is a qualified midwife with many years' experience. She is also Mum to three young children. She writes a parenting and lifestyle blog, and has written this article offering sound guidance on breastfeeding and bottle feeding.
Teaching our children about online safety is a key issue in all our minds. We're very pleased to share this article by Claire Lilley, Google's child safety public policy manager, with some sound tips and advice to support and protect our children in this fast-changing digital world.
Just Enough are running a competition to reward children who have done something outstanding in their community. Just Enough teach on subjects such as Modern Day Slavery, Anti-Radicalisation, Hate Crime, Knife Crime, plus many more. They're aware that the next generation will inherit this planet and they want to help ensure they grow up in a safer and more inclusive world!
Voices 2019 is a creative writing competition for children in care and young care leavers. Coram Voice tell us more and share some moving, but inspiring - stories. They're open for entries until midnight on 10 February 2019.
Blogger, "The Next Best Thing to Mummy" is a mum, stepmum and grandparent, who worked as a childminder for 14 years, until ill health forced her to give up. She has been employed as a preschool development worker and by the children’s centre as a support childminder. Here she shares her personal experience of being a stepparent.
We thought we'd brighten the first month of the year with our top pick from our iChild Shop. We always read all the reviews before we promote products - and these ones all had fantastic reviews. Happy browsing!
