Building relationships and communicating - useful links

• The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood’s Shaping Us Framework outlines how these skills develop in early childhood

• Top tips for enjoying stories together and book recommendations for starting school - Book Trust

Being with others - useful links

• Learn how to support your child to make friends - Family Corner

• Understand your child's social development - Words for Life

• Practice sharing with toys - BBC

Communication and language - useful links

• You are your child’s first teacher – help them learn how to write their name - Words for Life

• Explore a range of approaches to language learning and development from NHS Start for Life

• Build your child’s imagination and language by making up stories together - BBC

• Child's Progress checker - Speech & Language UK

Listening and engaging - useful links

• Follow the walk and talk trail with the National Literacy Trust

• Practice language and listening skills at home with these games - Playing with a cardboard telescope - BBC

• Practice language and listening skills at home with these games - Red Light, Green Light - BBC

Understand what 'healthy' levels of screen time are, by age - useful links

• World Health Organization guidance

• Health Professionals for Safer Screens poster

Get insights on internet safety, how screen use impacts young children and recommended screen time - useful links

• Help for early years providers: Internet safety

And for those with younger children, the NCT covers advice for babies and toddlers too:

• Screen time for babies and toddlers - NCT

Help children build a strong relationship with food and make the right choices from the start

• Nutrition guidance - Department for Education

• Healthier families - NHS

• Five tips for helping your kids to eat healthily all year round - BBC

• Eating Well - First Steps Nutrition Trust

• Factsheet for healthy children's diets - Association of UK Dieticians

Brushing teeth - useful links

• Toothbrushing SOS with the singing dentist

Sleep guidance - useful links

• Sleep and young children - NHS

• Struggling to get children to sleep: How to establish a bedtime routine - BBC