Articles & Expert Guides on Childcare & Education

Medically-reviewed expert guides, tips, real-life stories, and articles on Childcare & Education

Why More Schools Are Switching to a 4 Day School Week: And What It Means for Parents

Tassia O'Callaghan

The Juggle: Childcare Options for Working Parents

Tassia Agatowski

The Savings: How to Get the Most Out of Your Childcare Budget

Tassia Agatowski

The Benefits of Childcare for Working Parents (& Kids!)

Tassia Agatowski

Top 10 Tips for the First Day of Preschool

Tassia O'Callaghan

Key Signs of Diabetes in Kids

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

When Do Girls Stop Growing? Height, Puberty & Brain Development

Tassia Agatowski

What Age is Preschool? Preschool Age Range

Tassia O'Callaghan

How to Have a Happy First Day of School: 60+ Books, Quotes & Tips

Tassia O'Cakllaghan

How To Get a Toddler To Take Medicine

Team Peanut

40+ Essential Nanny Interview Questions

Deborah Vieyra

How Much to Pay a Babysitter

Alicia Wallace

What to Know About Childhood Sleepwalking

Team Peanut

How Much Does a Nanny Cost?

Deborah Vieyra

When Do Kids Stop Napping? How to Stop Napping

Team Peanut

100+ ‘Would You Rather?’ Questions for Kids

Team Peanut

Activities for 3 Year Olds: 20 Ideas

Tassia O'Callaghan

Questions to Ask Daycare

Tassia Agatowski

How to Find a Nanny

Tassia Agatowski

From the community

Nursery question UK

My son starts nursery soon and they said they provide all the kids with wellies and rainsuits for playing in the garden.

Does anyone know why this is? Why can't he just wear his own?

The pamphlet didn't explain the reasoning, I suppose I can ask in a few weeks when we get to visit, but I was just curious if other nursery's do this?

UK- 30 hours government funding

Could someone tell me how the 30 hours of government funding works please? 🙈🙈 in real layman terms !!
My baby will be in nursery 3 days a week… anyone have an estimate of how much on average I’ll be paying with the funding?

RANT Nursery / childcare

Soon to be first time mum here & my brain is just perplexed by the lack of nursery spaces for children under 2 years old…

I thought looking at 25 weeks pregnant was insane, but friends pushed that I needed to look early. We viewed our first nursery today and they said they have openings in their baby room from November 2027 (?) but advised us to join the wait list. By this point my baby will be 14 months old and the baby room only holds children until 16 months old

I’ve managed to find 2 other nurseries a close drive away, in neighbouring areas, but definitely nothing walkable. Most of the nurseries I’ve found only take children from 2+

Am I panicking about nothing and a spot will free up? Or is there a chance that when it comes to returning to work, next year, that I won’t have anywhere for my baby to go?

One of the practitioners told me they had someone viewing recently that was 8 weeks pregnant…

Homeschooling

Is anyone planning on homeschooling or has homeschooled their other children?

Nursery 🎪🐭🩵✨

I loveeee seeing other peoples nurseries!! 🥰

Mine isn’t finished yet, still got things to put on the walls, name signs, pictures etc.

Is anyone else almost done with theirs?

Daycare

At what age have you put your child in daycare ?

How are you affording childcare?

We have an 8 month old and a 2 year old. We make too much for assistance but to little to afford it!
Childcare is crazy!!!!

Childcare

What is everyone doing for childcare? It seems almost impossible to afford daycare, also leaving my 1 year old at an unknown place gives me big anxiety.

Pre baby nesting jobs

Looking for ideas of stuff to keep me occupied / nesting whilst I’m on MAT before baby gets here.

Looking more so for organising jobs like decluttering the house, reorganising wardrobe, wiping skirting boards. I’ve got a list but just wondered if there’s anything excitingly dull that I’ve missed 😂

Stuff that I’ll appreciate not needing to do once baby is here