Mums’ stories
“She suddenly didn’t like the slide”
“Erin used to love going down the biggest slides in the playground until a few weeks ago, when she suddenly got scared of them. She’d climb up, but refuse point blank to go down. It was really upsetting her so I encouraged her to stick to the smaller slides for a while, then started lifting her onto the big slides and holding her hands as she came down, over and over again. She’s fine now.”
Vicky Deacon, 39, from Surrey, mum to Erin, 2
“She stopped eating what I’d cooked”
“Cerys used to eat everything that was put in front of her, but once she turned 2 she became much more fussy about what was on her plate. Getting her to eat vegetables in particular turned into a bit of battle. I got round the problem by making her food fun – building a face out of mashed potato, with peas for hair, sweetcorn for eyes, carrots for the nose and mouth and broccoli for the ears.”
Siân Lyde, 36, from Surrey, mum to Cerys, 2
