Activities & Play
Behaviour
Childcare
Development & Growing Up
Family, Friends & Relationships
Feeding Your Baby
Food & Eating
Health & Safety
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Money & Work
Online Behaviour & Safety
Pregnancy & First Days
School & Education
Sleep
Please find below a list of all the pages and content across the Parent Club website.
General
Baby Box
Browse by topic
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Activities & Play
- Playing with your baby
- Bookbug
- Things to do indoors with your toddler
- Ball games to play with your toddler
- Kitchen activities for little ones
- PlayTalkRead craft activities
- Keeping active indoors
- Things to do indoors with your child
- 25 screen-free activities to wean kids off their screens
- Activities to do indoors with multiple children
- Things to do for teens
- Spring holiday activities
- Summer holiday fun
- Things to do in autumn
- Halloween
- Festive fun to boost wellbeing
- Family activities in your local area
- Having fun outdoors with your baby
- Having fun outdoors with your toddler
- Play outdoors
- Keeping the kids happy out and about
- Free fun games to pass the time when you're out and about
- Getting out and about with a disabled child
- Outdoor activities for multiple children
- Tips for teens to get outdoors and get active
- Bonfire night
- Keeping active during winter
- PlayTalkRead roadshow
- Top tips to help them learn Gaelic
- Gaelic resources and advice for parents
- P1 Bookbug bag
- P2 Read Write Count Activity Bag
- P3 Read Write Count Activity Bag
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Behaviour
- Understanding your toddler’s behaviour
- How to prevent toddler tantrums
- What to do when your toddler has a tantrum
- Dealing with kids' difficult behaviour
- Top tips to keep kids busy and avoid a strop
- Keeping calm with your child
- Coping with being a parent
- Building a rewarding relationship with your child
- Guide to the law about physically punishing a child
- Making daily life easier
- How to get your baby or toddler dressed without the stress
- Getting the kids to help around the house
- Tips for keeping kids happy after school
- Boredom busters and top tips for young school kids
- Getting your toddler out of the house
- Keeping toddlers busy when you’re out and about
- Tips for going shopping with your toddler
- Tips to avoid a strop at the shop
- Avoiding trouble amid the bubbles at baby's bathtime
- Making bath time fun time for your baby or toddler
- How to help your toddler to brush their teeth
- Top tips for story time
- How to calm the kids down with a story
- Why teens behave the way they do
- Teen behaviour – what’s typical and what’s a warning sign?
- Teen issues
- Coping with parenting when you’re raising a teen
- Dealing with conflict with your teen
- Translations of parenting a teen information
- What you need to know about teens and risk-taking behaviour
- Setting rules and consequences with your teen
- How vaping, smoking, alcohol and drugs affects teens
- Talking to young people about vaping, smoking, alcohol and drugs
- Information and facts about vaping
- Talking to your child about gambling
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Childcare
- Early learning and childcare that's free to you
- Have you discovered the big benefits of ELC?
- Things to consider when choosing ELC
- How do I know if an ELC setting is high quality?
- When your child needs some additional support at ELC
- Free milk and healthy snacks at ELC
- Early learning resources
- Early years information and support
- Informal childcare
- Can my child defer starting school?
- Early learning and childcare funded hours: what’s your child entitled to?
- Get to grips with childcare costs and benefits
- Top tips for getting ready to start nursery
- What to pack for nursery, playgroup or a childminder
- Helping your child with worries about nursery or childcare
- School age childcare
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Development & Growing Up
- When will my baby be able to hold their head up?
- When will my baby start holding and grabbing things?
- Tummy time with your baby
- When will my baby roll over?
- When will my baby crawl?
- When will my baby sit up?
- When will my baby start to walk?
- When will my baby walk independently?
- When will my baby start communicating?
- How to encourage your baby to socialise
- How will the way my baby communicates change?
- What social skills should I expect to see as my baby develops?
- When will my baby start to develop friendships?
- When should my baby start talking?
- Tips for encouraging your baby to start talking
- Top tips to help nappy time be a happy time
- How to use reusable nappies
- Starting potty training
- Potty training: top tips for success
- Toilet training your toddler
- Games to make toilet training fun
- Troubleshooting for toilet training
- Your toddler’s development: 12 – 24 months
- Your toddler’s development: 25 to 36 months
- Helping your toddler develop through play
- Choosing toys for one year olds
- Choosing toys for two and three year olds
- 3-5 year olds' development
- Lighting up the minds of 3-5 year olds
- Tips for chatting with your child
- Simple games to play to light up your child’s mind
- Story time tips for lighting up children's minds
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Family, Friends & Relationships
- Meeting your baby for the first time
- Getting to know your baby
- Bonding tips for dads and partners
- Separation and clingy babies
- Forming a good relationship with your child
- Encouraging your child to confide in you
- Helping your child grow up to be a confident individual
- Getting ready for the teen years
- Getting them ready for a new baby brother or sister
- Introducing a new baby brother or sister
- Managing multiple children
- Encouraging your child to make friends
- Helping your child with problems with friends
- Helping your child deal with peer pressure
- Helping to break down gender stereotypes
- Talking to your child about their body and puberty
- Talking to your child about sex
- Talking to your child about consent
- Talking to your child about LGBT+ and gender identity
- Talking and listening to your teen
- Everyday ways you can improve your relationship with your teen
- Feeling prepared for the teen years
- Helping your teen with problems with friends
- Helping your teen make friends
- Helping your teen with social anxiety
- Peer pressure and unhealthy teen friendships
- Talking to your teen about sex
- What does being in a healthy relationship mean?
- What's healthy sexual behaviour and what isn't?
- Talking to your teen about consent
- Harmful sexual behaviour
- Looking after your relationship
- Tips for helping your children if you split up with your partner
- Shared parenting
- Tips for lone parents
- Blended families
- Children's rights
- Further information about children’s rights in Scotland
- Children's rights case studies
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Feeding Your Baby
- Planning your feeding options
- Exclusive breastfeeding: why choose to breastfeed?
- Formula feeding
- Mixed feeding: breast milk and formula
- Common questions about feeding a newborn baby
- How breastfeeding works
- Starting to breastfeed
- Learning your baby's cues
- Breastfeeding positions
- Correct attachment
- How do I know my baby's getting enough breast milk?
- Frequent feeding and cluster feeding
- Coping with breastfeeding at night
- Feeding checklist
- Top tips for carrying on with breastfeeding
- Getting out and about while breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding past 6 months
- Breastfeeding and returning to work
- How to stop breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and diet, alcohol and medication
- Changes to your body and breasts
- Breastfeeding friendly clothes
- Getting a new bra for breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and COVID-19
- Breastfeeding and caring for other children
- Breastfeeding twins and more
- Breastfeeding and caesarean section
- Breastfeeding premature and sick babies
- Signs your baby isn't getting enough milk
- Breastfeeding sleepy and reluctant babies
- Refusing the breast
- Leaking breasts
- Sore and cracked nipples
- Oversupply of breast milk
- Low breast milk supply
- Early large weight loss
- Poor weight gain
- Jaundice
- Tongue-tie
- Engorgement
- Mastitis
- Thrush
- Finding breastfeeding support
- Breastfeeding support from dads and partners
- Breastfeeding support from grandparents
- Breastfeeding support from friends and family
- The National Breastfeeding Helpline
- Breastfeeding stories
- Expressing your breast milk
- Breast milk storage and bottle hygiene
- The Scotland wide donor milk bank
- What is weaning?
- Weaning tips
- What can my baby eat?
- Safety first for first foods: preparing, storing and reheating food
- What to expect when you try first foods
- What to eat: first foods, textures and tastes
- Milk and other drinks
- First foods on a tight budget
- When introducing first foods isn't going to plan
- The benefits of first foods at 6 months
- Guide to introducing first foods at 6 months
- Guide to giving your baby solid foods at 7-12 months
- Guide to giving your baby solid foods at 12-15 months
- Guide to giving your baby solid foods at 15 months and beyond
- Gagging
- Choking
- Weaning recipes
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Food & Eating
- Tips if your toddler is a fussy eater
- Tips if your child is a fussy eater
- Top tips for mealtime, food prep and “hangry” toddlers!
- Making tea time fun for toddlers
- Feeding your toddler
- Tips for helping your child to use cutlery
- Helping you eat together
- Eating well at home
- How to save money on food and groceries
- How to plan meals for the week ahead
- Easy, cheap and tasty family recipes
- Cookalong videos
- Cooking with the kids
- Tips to get the kids helping in the kitchen
- Food safety
- Weights and measures
- Simple healthy meal swaps
- All you need to know about snacking
- All you need to know about sugar
- Healthy eating resources to download
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Health & Safety
- Your health visitor
- Immunisations
- Top tips for taking wee ones for vaccinations
- Looking after your child when they’re poorly
- Keeping your child's brain healthy
- Making your home as safe as possible
- Avoiding accidents at home
- Staying safe when you’re out and about
- Water safety
- NHS and child health support
- Children's weight
- Helping your child have a good body image
- Talking to your child about weight
- HPV vaccine
- Menstrual health
- Menopause
- Teething
- How to help your toddler to brush their teeth
- Looking after your child's teeth
- Looking after your family's teeth
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Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Mental health advice for parents
- Dealing with negative thoughts
- Looking after yourself at Christmas
- Looking after yourself in winter
- Tips for starting the New Year in a good way
- Why connecting with your wee one is important
- Using items in your Baby Box to connect with your baby
- Helping your baby feel connected
- Helping your toddler feel connected
- Long term benefits of engaging with your wee one
- Helping your child through play
- How to help toddlers feel confident and secure
- Supporting your child’s mental health
- How to help your child feel confident and secure
- Issues that can affect children’s mental health
- Talking to your child about mental health
- How to help children deal with worries
- Children and neurodiversity
- Talking to your children about climate change
- Talking to your child about current events
- Coping with bereavement
- Coping with suicide
- Supporting your teen’s mental health
- Helping teens build resilience
- Tackling common teenage issues
- Getting help and support when you’re raising a teen
- Eating disorders
- Helping teens with anxiety
- Helping neurodivergent teens with anxiety
- Supporting teens with low mood and depression
- Coping with self-harm
- Supporting teens with suicidal thoughts
- Supporting young people to have a good body image
- Tips for helping young people accept their bodies
- Tips to help young people build self-esteem
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Money & Work
- Don't know where to start with money and benefits?
- Getting support from the Money Talk Team
- Financial support and benefits for families
- Tips for applying for benefits
- Using a benefits calculator
- Get to grips with childcare costs and benefits
- Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods
- Help dealing with debt
- Translations of money and work information
- Budgeting tips
- How to save money
- How to reduce your energy bills and save money
- How to save money on rent, mortgages and council tax
- Top tips for saving money before your baby arrives
- Top tips for saving on school costs
- How to save money on food and groceries
- Save money by shopping second-hand
- Save money, save the planet
- How to boost your income and make extra money
- How to do Christmas on a budget
- Thinking about getting back to work or changing job?
- Help looking for a job
- Job hunting tips
- Returning to work after having a baby
- Flexible working
- Tips for working from home
- Rights and support for working parents
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Online Behaviour & Safety
- Introducing online safety for young children
- Your guide to screen time
- Talking to your child about online safety
- Setting parental controls
- Setting boundaries for using mobiles and other devices
- Online dangers
- Sharing nudes
- When your child has a negative experience online
- Online safety for teens
- Tips for creating strong passwords to stay secure online
- Translations of online safety information
- Tips for helping young people get the most out of social media
- What is child sexual abuse and exploitation?
- Common myths about child sexual abuse and exploitation explained
- Spotting the signs of child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Talking to your child about sexual abuse and exploitation
- Helping to keep your child safer online from child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Sexual abuse and exploitation of disabled children
- How to cope if your child has been sexually abused or exploited
- Reporting concerns about child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Getting help and support about child sexual abuse and exploitation
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Pregnancy & First Days
- Planning a pregnancy
- Common pregnancy questions
- First trimester (0-13 weeks) tips
- Second trimester (14-27 weeks) tips
- Third trimester (28-40 weeks) tips
- How to support your partner when they’re pregnant
- Vaccines during pregnancy
- Pregnancy advice for parents who are still in school
- Common labour and birth questions
- Top tips for labour and birth
- Why is my baby crying?
- Common questions new parents ask
- Tips for the first few days with a newborn
- Bathing your newborn
- Looking after yourself during pregnancy
- Looking after your mental health during pregnancy
- Mental health tips for partners and dads-to-be
- Pregnancy information and support
- What is stillbirth and how can you reduce your risk?
- Going to sleep on your side
- Stopping smoking
- Monitoring your baby’s movements
- Supporting you after a stillbirth
- Reducing the risk of stillbirth – resources
- Looking after yourself with a newborn
- How depression and anxiety can sometimes affect new mums
- Mental health support for new mums
- Mental health support for new dads
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School & Education
- Fun games to get your child ready for school
- Starting primary school
- Helping your child with worries about primary school
- Preparing your child to go back to primary school
- Making the jump from primary to secondary school
- Starting secondary school
- Help with back to secondary school worries
- Top tips for saving on school costs
- School age childcare
- All about school meals
- All about school clothing
- Join the Scottish Assembly of Parents and Carers
- Supporting your child’s learning
- Questions to ask kids about their day at school
- How to help kids with their maths homework
- How to help kids with their spelling homework
- Supporting children and young people with additional support needs
- Supporting your teen at school
- Home education
- How to cope with exam stress
- Getting additional support with exams
- Results and the future
- What is bullying?
- What to do if your child is being bullied
- Bullying at school
- Reporting bullying to the police
- What to do if your child is bullying others
- Help if your child feels unable to go to school
- Tips for helping your child if they feel unable to go to school
- Talking to your child’s school about attendance
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Sleep
- Safer sleeping tips
- Common questions about safer sleep
- Bed-sharing with your baby
- Safer sleep for twins
- Getting your newborn to sleep
- How to get your baby to sleep
- How much sleep should my baby have?
- A guide to your baby sleeping through the night
- What is sleep training?
- How to cope when you aren’t getting any sleep
- How to create a bedtime routine for your toddler that actually works
- Helping your toddler get a good night’s sleep
- What to do if your toddler keeps waking in the night and other common sleep issues
- Top tips for bedtime for young kids
- Sleeping tips for older children and teenagers