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Children's Mental Health Support Pack - Witherslack Group

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Every child is unique and mental health difficulties can present in many ways. Recognising the unique needs of neurodiverse children is fundamental in supporting their mental well-being, and influencing their emotional, social, and cognitive development.

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Bury Parent Infant Mental Health Service

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Bury Parent Infant Mental Health Service

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Bury parent infant mental health service :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Bury parent infant mental health service can help you to build a satisfying relationship with your baby. This was previously called Bury early attachment service.

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We are a team of experts providing free personalised support, helping people improve their lifestyle, boost their wellbeing, and enjoy life more

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A holistic therapist, heart-led social entrepreneur, and busy mum, based in beautiful Bury, Greater Manchester.

Whether it's nurturing family-friendly community spaces or supporting your wellbeing through holistic therapies and play-based activities, everything I do is rooted in empathy, connection, and helping you feel truly seen and supported.

Through The Empathy Holistic Buddies CIC (The Buddies Tribe), I create welcoming, community-led sessions that help parents, carers, and little ones find calm, connection, and a sense of belonging.

I also lead Songs & Smiles sessions with The Together Project, bringing intergenerational singing, play, and laughter into local care homes, reducing loneliness and building bonds across generations.

So grab your cuppa, pop your slippers on, and know you're safe and welcome here 💛
Welcome to Empathy Holistics.
Nestled near the rolling hills of Bury, I bring together nature, nurture, and a touch of whimsical enchantment in my sessions.

I offer both virtual and in-person wellbeing experiences for all ages - from soothing aromatherapy to grounding, nature-based practices.

Whether you're outdoors, curled up at home, or gathered in a cozy circle, everything I share is rooted in calm, connection, and community.

Come as you are, breathe deeply, and find your place in this calm, cozy tribe. Together, we'll create something comforting, imaginative, and joyfully simple.

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Welcome, I'm Emmy King, A holistic therapist, heart-led social entrepreneur, and busy mum, based in beautiful Bury, Greater Manchester. Whether it's nurturing family-friendly community spaces or supporting your wellbeing through holistic therapies and play-based activities, everything I do is rooted in empathy, connection, and helping you feel truly seen and supported.

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Outdoor Events & Education | The Sunnywood Project |

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The Sunnywood Project is a non-profit arts and nature education consultancy / provider and outdoor events organiser.

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Free online wellbeing activities and an in-person services with We Be Kids, helping people connect with nature and boost wellbeing.

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Bury Universal and Universal Plus Offer-Free sessions and groups

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Bury Universal and Universal Plus Offer-Free sessions and groups

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Join a supportive community for personal growth and well-being.

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Bury2gether -A forum for parents/carers who have children with SEND

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Bury2gether -A forum for parents/carers who have children with SEND

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Supporting Parents/Carers who have a child or young person with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND), aged 0-25, who access Bury services.

Proud recipients of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2022.
This lifetime achievement award is the MBE for voluntary groups.
Special thanks to all our Volunteers for their continued hard work and dedication.

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BURY2GETHER a forum for Parents/Carers who have children with SEND

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Supporting Parents/Carers who have a child or young person with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND), aged 0-25, who access Bury services. Proud recipients of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2022. This lifetime achievement award is the MBE for voluntary groups. Special thanks to all our Volunteers for their continued hard work and dedication.

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About Bury's Essential Parent App

Local families have been receiving evidence-based information directly from health, care, and education providers in Bury to support their parenting journey from pre-birth to their children's teenage years.

To build on this successful system a free app tailored to Bury's local needs, including a range of local content, has been developed called the Essential Parent GM Family Hub.

The app offers expert health and parenting advice anywhere, anytime including:

Over 2000 articles & videos

Translates into over 75 languages

Health information from pregnancy to teenage years for you and your family

Receive the latest local health and parenting advice

Get the app

The app is available from app stores for both Android and iPhone.

Search ' Essential Parent GM Family Hub'.

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The free app is tailored to Bury's local needs.

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How we grow an emotionally healthy brain

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How we grow an emotionally healthy brain

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How we grow an emotionally healthy brain - The Centre for Early Childhood’s Explainer series

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Noticing and navigating feelings - The Centre for Early Childhood’s Explainer series

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Managing big feelings together - The Centre for Early Childhood’s Explainer series

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Back and forth interactions - The Centre for Early Childhood’s Explainer series

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Supporting early learning - The Centre for Early Childhood’s Explainer series

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Creating space for connection - The Centre for Early Childhood’s Explainer series

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I was a bit scared when we found out we were having a baby, obviously happy, but a bit scared and in the beginning I was a bit clueless. The child development part is my favourite bit, but there's things in there, like things about mental health, that I didn't know about and that I didn't know you needed to know about.

Ross, 22

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DadPad | The Essential Guide for New Dads | Support Guide for New Dads

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Developed with the NHS, DadPad gives new dads and dads-to-be the knowledge and skills needed to gain confidence and give their baby the best start in life.

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Thriving in Bury for children and Young people-padlet

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Thriving in Bury for children and Young people-padlet

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Bury Early Attachment Service-Dad's Leaflet

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Bury Early Attachment Service-Dad's Leaflet

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Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service

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Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service

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We offer interventions that allow children and young people to explore difficult experiences through play and creativity. We also support your setting by delivering training, consultation and workshops.

We offer: Play Therapy, Creative Therapy, Creative psychotherapy, Art Therapy Autplay, DDP, Integrative Counselling, CPD and Twilight training, Therapeutic parenting support, Parent child sessions, Assessments, Parent workshops and Parent Training (This list is not exhaustive)

We Specialise in: complex trauma, domestic violence, loss, abuse and neglect, trauma, attachment, relationships, education and behaviour. We are specialist in supporting settings with their pastoral care.

We Work With: Educational Settings, Adoption and Fostering agencies, Social Workers, Health, Charities
Courses We Deliver Care agencies: - Childhood trauma and attachment (Online)
A course with 4 modules offering foster carers an insight into how childhood trauma affects children and young people. This course offers lots of practical helpful advice and support for foster carers to begin using at home and includes a handbook and online resources. It is brilliant for agencies who want to train carers and staff to become more trauma informed and therapeutic in their approaches.

Modules include:

-Childhood trauma and the brain

-Attachment disorder in the context of the home

-Therapeutic Responses

-Connection vs disconnection when approaching behaviour

Read more here: Childhood Trauma and Attachment Course - TPC Therapy Ltd
- Therapeutic Schools Award
This award helps you to implement a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Giving you step by step approaches and strategies to help you become trauma informed, attachment aware and more therapeutic. This course closes the gap between theory and practice and helps make the science relevant to everyday scenarios- so that you know what to do to help! This program includes a 6 module therapeutic teaching course to embed a therapeutic approach across the school. Upskilling staff to become trauma informed and to put wellbeing at the heart of all they do. You will also have access to our wellbeing curriculum, including lesson plans and live lessons and online resources and support for the staff team. Your school will need to work through a programme and complete specific criteria such as transforming your environments in line with our therapeutic classroom guidelines, evidence therapeutic response skills and much more. You will need to submit evidence that you have met our criteria in order to achieve the award. Everything Is accessed through our online hub.

Read more here: Therapeutic School Award - TPC Therapy Ltd

A course with 6 modules for all staff in your school. This course looks at essential information about mental health and wellbeing in education and how childhood trauma can impact their ability to flourish at school. Our course modules give you the underpinning knowledge you need to become trauma informed and then upskill and empower you to become more therapeutic in your approaches. It is full of strategies and tools to implement straight away and full of resources to help you make a difference. Written and delivered via our online training by Shahana Knight our founder and director who has experience of childhood trauma herself and was recently a finalist for the inspirational women award!

Modules include:

-Childhood trauma and the brain

-Therapeutic teaching skills

-Attachment in the context of the classroom

-Creating a therapeutic environment

-Creating an emotionally intelligent class

-Connection vs disconnection when approaching behaviour

Read more here: Therapeutic Teaching Course - TPC Therapy Ltd

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Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People

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Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People | The Bury Directory

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North Manchester and Bury Maternity Services

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North Manchester and Bury Maternity Services

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North Manchester General Hospital offers a full range of high quality maternity services for women and their families across North Manchester, Bury and Salford. We are committed to providing safe and effective care that is personalised to your needs and we pride ourselves in supporting you through your pregnancy journey. The maternity teams are friendly and welcoming and wish to guide you through the most important time in your life.

North Manchester General Hospital Maternity Care Hotline: 0161 656 1757

Booking Details: Self-referral to your community midwife via your GP surgery. At your booking appointment you will be identified as either requiring midwife-led or consultant-led care, dependent on your risk status and your choice.
Virtual Tour

Place of Birth Choices: where we provide one to one midwifery care

Midwife led settings: Home, Bluebell (alongside) Birth Centre

Obstetric led setting: Labour Ward

The Bluebell Birth Centre and the labour ward have en-suite facilities and Birthing pools are available if this is your preferred option please discuss with the midwife.

Tours of the hospital

There are tours available every Sunday at 10am. You can book to attend one of these tours through our antenatal clinics (01617202769) or just turn up on the day and you will be welcome to join the tour. Should this day not be convenient for you please contact the Birth Centre (01616258043) and an alternative date and time can be facilitated.

Visiting times

We have an antenatal ward and a postnatal ward at North Manchester and for these areas visiting times are as follows

Partners and siblings from 8am-8pm

Other visitors from 10am until 8pm.

We respectfully request that the number is kept to 4 per bed at any one time.

Visiting times for the Labour ward and Bluebell Birth Centre allow for 2 people at any one time 24/7

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North Manchester General Hospital, Crumpsall

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North Manchester General Hospital offers a full range of high quality maternity services for women and their families across North Manchester, Bury and Salford. We are committed to providing safe and effective care that is personalised to your needs and we pride ourselves in supporting you through your pregnancy journey.

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Our maternity service is a super centre of excellence, providing care for over 6000 women a year. We offer great facilities, pride ourselves on the individual care and attention each woman and family receives and we promote a philosophy of normal and natural labour and childbirth and midwives suppor…

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Health Visiting :: Northern Care Alliance

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The Health Visiting Service is a universal prevention and early detection service for all children and families that will enable them to achieve optimum health and wellbeing.

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Bury Council Early Years Universal Offer and Sessions for parents/carers and children aged 0-5 years

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Bury Council Early Years Universal Offer and Sessions for parents/carers and children aged 0-5 years

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Bury Council Early Years Universal Offer and Sessions for parents/carers and children aged 0-5 years

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Bury Council Early Years Universal Offer and Sessions for parents/carers and children aged 0-5 years

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BBC TINY HAPPY PEOPLE-New Dads-Mental Health Advice

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BBC TINY HAPPY PEOPLE-New Dads-Mental Health Advice

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Becoming a dad can trigger a whole range of emotions - from overwhelming joy to utter fear and everything in between.
Throw in a lack of sleep, broken routines and hormonal changes (yes, dads have those too) and it's not unusual to feel completely off-kilter.

In fact, studies show that about one in 10 men experiences mental health difficulties in the first six months after baby arrives, with first-time dads and younger dads particularly vulnerable. And although awareness is growing, dad's wellbeing can get side-lined, explains mental health specialist Raoul Lindsay.

"When baby is born, the focus is quite rightly on mum and baby and dads are kind of in the background. But you need support too."
We wanted to highlight the life-changing experience of becoming a dad and offer some advice for new dads' wellbeing. Here are some tips you can try to help keep your mental health in check...

Mental health guide: 7 tips for new dads

1. Ease up on yourself

New dads put a lot of pressure on themselves, says Raoul. "One thing that comes up a lot in my work is this belief that you need a new set of skills to be a successful dad, while mums have this natural maternal instinct."

In truth, being a parent doesn't come easily to anyone.

I wish new dads knew there's no such thing as a Super Dad.

"One thing I tell dads as part of recovery is to get hands-on and be silly with your baby. Move away from thinking that have to be the logical, hunter-gatherer parent while mum is the nurturing parent. Also trust your instincts; yes, take on information and other people's advice but above else, have faith in your own judgement."

2. Connect and communicate with your partner

Good communication with your partner is an important way to feel calmer and more confident about your parenting.

"It's especially important in the early stages. Sharing duties like night feeds, planning things as much as possible, recognising that you both need rest. It's all about being able to speak to them about what's happening and think practically together about what you can do," says Raoul.

Connect, listen, ask questions and find out what each other really needs, adds Raoul.

"Your partner is the person you can trust and you feel most comfortable with, so in theory this shouldn't be hard. But sometimes we guess what our partners need without getting actual information from them. You can do all the things under the sun to help each other feel better but until you ask each other, it's just a guessing game, which can trigger even more worries about not being able to support them or be a good parent."

3. Do things that help you feel balanced

Sounds undoable when there is barely time to draw breath, but Raoul advises finding a new routine that helps you retain some sense of calm.

"Think about what helped you unwind, regulated and relax before you had a baby, and see if you and your partner can find ways you can lever it into your new life in some way."

There's no point trying things you didn't do before just because you think they might help, like gardening or reading for example.

"If you want to spend some time playing a games console, there's nothing wrong with that. Perhaps health and fitness is your thing and you're feeling sensitive about your 'dad bod' and there's a way you can fit in a trip to the gym or a run. Whatever helps you."

4. Chat to other new dads

Don't underestimate the power of talking to people in exactly the same situation as you, says Raoul.

"You will be surprised how helpful it can be to open your eyes to what you need. It's something that was important to me when I first became a dad. The opportunity to chat to other new dads who know what you're going through, to exchange parenting tips and arrange social things, like a walk together when you feel comfortable, is so valuable."

5. Remember that parenthood will get easier

"You can miss your pre-dad life a lot in the early stages of being a new dad," says Raoul.

"So, it's important to remember that the difficulties are temporary, you will return to a sense of 'normality' whatever that was - better sleep, quieter moments with your partner, more time to see friends and family and so on."

Recognising that with time and experience things won't seem so challenging is a very positive tool.

6. Be aware of your mood

Most new dads feel low at some point, but if these feelings linger and last for a long period, it could be a sign of depression.

"Some anxieties are natural, for example, how you'll be as a dad or logistical changes like paternity leave," explains Raoul. "What's important is to recognise when the worry continues for too long, or when it becomes debilitating. For example, you might experience physical affects like panic attacks or not be able to return to a regular, calm state. You might notice that your eating habits change so you're eating more or less than you usually do, or that your sleeping patterns change."

Depression is a different experience for everyone.

So, it's really important to keep a close check on yourself and look out for anything that's unusual for you.

"Things like feeling withdrawn socially, if you're not taking pleasure from activities you used to love or lacking the desire to do them at all, or if you're feeling worried about the things you weren't worried about before," says Raoul.

Check out the NHS guide to low mood, sadness and depression.

7. Open up to someone you trust

If you are feeling continually low, don't be afraid to share how you're feeling.

It doesn't matter who you talk to, just so long as it's someone you trust and who will listen, says Raoul.

"Initiating this chat is really hard so take small steps. It doesn't have to feel like a big conversation. It might not be about asking for help - it might just be about informing someone about something that's happening right now."

Further information

For more information about mental health and wellbeing, check out the dedicated area on the NHS website

BBC Action Line also has details of organisations that can help support you.

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Raoul Lindsay, a mental health specialist gives his advice on how new dads can try keep their mental wellbeing in check.

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Bury Early Attachment Service Referral Form

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Bury Early Attachment Service Referral Form

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Kidscape-Helping your Child with Bullying

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Kidscape-Helping your Child with Bullying

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Help Your Child With Bullying | Anti-Bullying Charity

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It’s not easy when your child is going through a bullying situation, but you are not alone. We are here to help. Visit our website to learn more.

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aBetterYou is a digital wellbeing self-assessment tool, encouraging Bury residents to reflect on different aspects of their life, empowering them to make positive changes to their habits and behaviours, whilst providing access to appropriate support when required.

Taking just 10-15 minutes to complete, aBetterYou guides you through a variety of categories, generating a personalised wellbeing booklet with information, advice and services specific to your individual need. You will have the opportunity to self-refer into relevant services along the way, helping you to achieve your goals.

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aBetterYou is a digital wellbeing self-assessment tool, encouraging Bury residents to reflect on different aspects of their life, empowering them to make positive changes to their habits and behaviours, whilst providing access to appropriate support when required.

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Bury CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health service).

We help children and young people up to the age of 18 years, and provide assessments, intervention and support to their families/carers.
Some of the things we can help with include:

Anxiety

Depression

Eating disorders

Psychosis

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Emotional dysregulation

Self-harm

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

Autism

More complex psychological difficulties

We also provide consultation, advice and training to other agencies and accept referrals from a wide range of professionals.

Our clinicians come from a range of clinical and professional backgrounds, including psychiatrists, nurses, CAMHS practitioners and psychologists, amongst others.

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Bury CAMHS :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Bury CAMHS (child and adolescent mental health service) provides specialist support to children and young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

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Bury early attachment service :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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We work with you during pregnancy, and with you and your baby up until their second birthday.

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Your guide to Pregnancy and Mental Health 

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Your guide to Pregnancy and Mental Health 

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Tiny Happy People is here to help you develop your child's language skills. Explore our simple activities and play ideas and find out about babies and toddlers' amazing early development.

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Children’s language development and parenting advice - BBC Tiny Happy People

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A chatty child is a happy child, so Tiny Happy People is here to help you develop your child’s communication skills through simple interaction and play.