INTRODUCE a new generation of children to Oscar Wilde’s classic tales with this gorgeous collection from Little Island Books. Printed on high-quality paper, with a linen-effect cover, gold foil details, and a ribbon bookmark, Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children features six of Wilde’s best-known stories: The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, The … Read more
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Whenever you give your child tomato sauce, they have a reaction. But when you give them tomatoes in other forms, nothing happens. Could it be an allergy? “This is not an allergy,” says Dr Juan Trujillo, a paediatric allergist and co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Allergy at Cork University Hospital and UCC. “For … Read more
My three-year-old picked up chicken pox from another child at a family party. Thankfully, it was a mild dose, and he recovered within the week. However, his childminder says he needs to stay home for another week, putting us under work pressure. What would you recommend? Chickenpox is a pain. Apart from the misery for … Read more
If you are currently a parent to an 18-month-old, you will be familiar with the heart-stopping terror of finding a marker lid lurking in your hallway minus the accompanying marker…. …it can, of course, only mean one thing: your hiding place for art materials has been uncovered, the colouring shoebox has been ransacked, and your … Read more
Registered children’s dietician Caroline O’Connor has met parents who blame their partners for their child’s picky eating. “They say, ‘My mother-in-law told me my husband never ate vegetables when he was young; he was a very fussy eater’,” says O’Connor, founder of Solid Start, which helps “parents raise a happy, healthy eater”. Her observations chime … Read more