Parenting

By: ANDREA CLIFFORD-POSTON features@algarveresident.com Andrea Clifford-Poston is an educational psychotherapist and author of Tweens: What to Expect From and How to Survive Your Child’s Pre-Teenage Years (published by Oneworld) and

features@algarveresident.com A report has warned that pregnant women who do not eat nuts could leave their child susceptible to allergies. The report suggests that Britain’s allergy epidemic is being fuelled

By DR MICHAEL LOWRY features@algarveresident.com Dr Michael Lowry is an experienced parent and educator, who regularly visits his Algarve home in Tavira. His work over many years in universities has

1. Buy or borrow second-hand baby clothes – babies grow so fast, they tend to be hardly worn; 2. Borrow a buggy from a friend; 3. If you have to

SPECIALISTS FROM two of the main paediatric societies in Europe agreed at a congress held in northern Portugal this week that babies should be given a vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis.

By DR MICHAEL LOWRY features@algarveresident.com Dr Michael Lowry is an experienced parent and educator, who regularly visits his Algarve home in Tavira. His work over many years in universities has

By: CHARLOTTE KAMMAN features@algarveresident.com Charlotte Kamman is a life coach, working with divorced parents in new relationships. She coaches clients from over the whole world by phone, chat and e-mail.

WOMEN IN Britain can discover the gender of their unborn baby just six weeks into their pregnancy with DNA testing kits, a firm has claimed. The kits are going on

By: SUZY TURNER features@algarveresident.com Working mothers A study has revealed that working mothers have fatter children than those who don’t work. Researchers of the study, published in the International Journal