Parenting guides

Talk and play with your child, written from what the research says.

• Videos or conversation: what research says for ages 0–5Studies on video calls, background TV and watching together suggest the difference for young children is not the screen but whether someone responds.
• When you worry your child is late to talkWhere to get a late talker checked first, and research-based ways to talk at home alongside that check: wait, name and expand. Not a diagnosis or a treatment.
• Ten conversation games for three-year-oldsAsk, wait and expand: ten everyday conversation games for three-year-olds, drawn from serve and return and research on dialogic reading and emotion coaching.