“The most important thing is to provide a warm, supportive, and stable environment for our children. There’s no single formula for good parenting—it can take many different shapes and forms.”

If we don’t say “babies, children and young people”, the babies get overlooked.

Babies under one are more likely to be killed by an adult than at any other age.

Babyhood is a critical period of mental and physical development.

Let’s remember to include babies 👍🏻

This came up at Saturday’s LGA event.

Please stop saying Children & Young Ppl unless you really are excluding babies.

If you’re referring to children from birth, please do use the term Babies, Children & Young People.

There’s a good gov report using this term here: www.gov.uk/government/p....

So @karenjbateson.bsky.social are you going to set up an perinatal and infant mh starter pack for me?!

A very useful, large meta-analysis confirming the association of parental sensitivity with attachment security. Similar magnitudes of association between maternal and paternal sensitivity. AKA sensitivity in both parents matter in parent-child attachment.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...