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Teaching your baby sign language
By 10 to 14 months babies usually speak their first word, but they can learn to use sign language from a much younger age.
Encouraging baby's cognitive skills
A baby will develop their cognitive skills through a range of play activities. You can help encourage this learning through some of these play tips and ideas.
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Your one-year-old is more creative than you might think
Even one-year-olds can be very exploratory, experimental and creative.
Baby's water survival video divides viewers
Is it responsible parenting, or is this baby being subjected to unnecessary distress? That's the question dividing viewers of a video showing a six-month-old girl fending for herself in a swimming pool after being enticed to fall into the water.
Baby's future imagined in cute photo series
A French dad has captured his 3-month-old daughter, June, in a series that shows her in outfits of different professions in order to show the possibilities ahead of her. The dad, Malo, says that he, his wife and a few friends work quickly to avoid tiring the baby out.
Traditional toys beat gadgets in language development
Baby laptops and other talking, flashing toys that promise to improve children's language skills may do the exact opposite.
The simple way you can help your baby's language development
The way parents respond to their child's babbling can shape how their infants communicate.
The activity to do with your baby that will help them succeed at school
One in five school kids is starting school unprepared.
How 'parentese' helps develop your baby's language skills
Baby talk does more than just entertain babies - it helps foster important language skills, too.
Do you read me, baby?
Is it too soon to be reading to my two-month-old son? If not, what should I read?
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How you talk to your baby now can impact social skills later
People used to think that social skills were something kids were born with, not taught.
Entertaining your baby with play
It seems that by now that I would have a lot of things figured out. But figuring out how to play with an infant still remains a challenge.
Babies 'benefit from iPads at a young age': study
More often than not, you'll read that screen time for children should be kept to a minimum - but some scientists are now challenging this way of thinking.
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