Guides
Start where your child is
Everything here is organised by how old your child is right now — not by category, and not by what we felt like writing. Pick a stage and you’ll find what matters at that point, in plain English.
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The seven stages
Bump to birth
Pregnancy & getting ready
Preparing practically and emotionally for a baby, and understanding the systems — health, funded childcare, leave — before you need them.
5 guides planned
0–3 months
Newborn
Survival-mode parenting: feeding, sleep, bonding, recovery and the early health checks.
7 guides planned
3–12 months
Baby
Rapid physical development, weaning, first mobility and early communication.
1 guide ready · 9 planned
1–2 years
Toddler
Mobility, independence-seeking, a language explosion, and very big emotions in a very small person.
1 guide ready · 7 planned
2–3 years
Young toddler
Potty training, the “why?” phase, early social play, and the two-year development review.
1 guide ready · 5 planned
3–4 years
Preschooler
EYFS learning ramps up: social skills, early literacy and numeracy, and the beginnings of school readiness.
3 guides ready · 8 planned
4–5 years
Starting school
The practical and emotional shift from early years care into statutory schooling.
10 guides planned
“We’re still writing.”
Our Kids Hub is new. The stages above are the full plan — 51 guides for launch, of which 6 are written so far — and they’re researched and checked one at a time by a practising, registered childminder rather than churned out. Each stage page shows what’s ready and what’s coming.
The letter templates are finished too, and free to use today.