Maureen Smyth: It’s Playtime!

Children in Park

Are you one of the thousands of guilt-tripped parents in the UK reading stories in the press berating you for [...]

Nicola Skinner: How to spend time with your child

Cupcakes

Nicola Skinner offers her own personal guide to spending time with your children. My daughter was born in the early [...]

Case Study: Using a Child Contact Centre

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Continuing our informative series of blogs for Child Contact Centre Awareness Week, Paula McGuire interviews one set of parents about [...]

Jangle bells?

Jangle bells?

This December, several thousand families across Scotland will be facing their first Christmas separated or divorced. It is hard for [...]

Parenting in Scotland: what do our children really need?

Parenting in Scotland

The Scottish Government launches its national parenting strategy on 3 October 2012. I am delighted that there is to be [...]

Game on

Game on

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has this issue. How long should the kids spend on their games [...]

The pros and cons of summer holidays

summer holidays pros and cons

The recent unseasonably lovely weather has caused us here in the office to start counting down the days to our [...]

The family team

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When you start out on this great journey we call parenthood it is easy to forget about teamwork. You see, [...]

Bye bye, baby

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It’s now been five months since I tearfully waved my elder son off to London. He has gone with his [...]

Sitting in the back row

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I can’t remember the last time I had a night out with my husband. You know, a proper one where [...]