In our modern society raising happy, confident, well balanced and emotionally healthy kids is often increasingly difficult. Kids seem to speak a completely different language when they are texting or chatting on the internet that is sometimes hard to understand yet one really important aspect to parenting is to meet your child's need for love.

A new £140m scheme to offer free swimming to over-60s and under-16s is to be be launched.

Three quarters (76.6%) of mums feel that they neglect themselves in favour of putting their families first with 60% of mums spending less than 30 minutes on themselves per day and a quarter of mums having a mere 15 minutes or less to themselves daily.

The issue of mums and working has sparked controversy and been made more interesting recently with the two very different high profile celebrity cases.

Coughs and colds that go around nurseries are a natural part of childhood and nigh on impossible to avoid. The typical child, for example, will have had an average of 8 colds in the first 18 months of life.