Guest post by Margot Edwards    Teaching a child to understand the underlying structure of spoken language is a key component in the...

On Thursday, when I was on my way home, I heard a report on the radio about the fact that a third of parents are no longer reading their...

Annette Karmiloff-Smith  said on Radio 4 yesterday that babies learn from  TV more than books. Now,  may be this just a  lady who is look...

The parents of our Smart Talkers groups have voted for their favourite story. Here is their list: The hungry caterpiller What th...

...... and they just gather dust!' So said my ex-mother-in-law one day when I was reading to my first baby aged 12 months. It was Twink...

Welcome to our March guest blogger, Frances Evesham: Bedtime stories pack a secret punch. Quiet and relaxing, they tick all the right boxe...