In many countries Christmas is a traditional time for cooking and baking. Cooking and baking with kids is of course a top activity and so here's some inspirations to liven up the cookie cutting (see below for a super simple recipe that you can use to m...

Here's another example of great innovation on the "food for kids" front ... Dinosaur Pasta. I can't believe nobody else thought of this earlier. Take two things lots of young kids like best and put them together - genius! The "Kids Pasta" range is made...

Some days parenting comes down to a very simple question. How do you get your kids to do something they don’t want to do? So we come up with tricks, treats, threats and cheats. Sometimes they work, then they don’t … and because there are always d...

The loss of a child is the single thing that scares parents the most. We often obsess over ways to keep our children safe. We buy plastic doodads to plug into electrical sockets to keep little fingers away, we put poisons and chemicals out of reach and...

More evidence that toddlers are the new teens ... in our generation most kids wouldn't really get into the latest songs and artists until they were in their teens. That's very last century now. These days any kind of music is played to kids and babies ...

More evidence that expensive toys are not needed to entertain babies ... the clips below have clocked up over 70m youtube views (!) Enjoy, stef

Here's another "forgotten game" (or so it seems) from the previous generation of parents and kids - "pick up sticks". Remember that? It's such a simple concept and you can even play it with leftover chopsticks from all those take aways (or BBQ skewers)...

Last October my son was 2 1/2 years old and loved asking me to draw “scary cats.” See below. (I tried to make them as friendly as possible while still satisfying his requests for more claws and teeth.) So this year I thought it would be fun to use...

We recently got a "charades for kids" game and tried it out with our 4-year-old. Works a treat ... he absolutely loves it and it's a great family game. The best thing is the game is done in a way that kids who can't read yet can play as well. ...

Do you remember your school project days when you would make all sorts of incredible gadgets out of junk (well we used to anyway). One of these projects was to build a simple Stirling Engine ... check out the following and explain to your kids why the ...