A guide to parenting

Is it ok to smack children? Do we burden our grandparents too much with child care duties? What is a parent's role in a child's play? How do we make bedtime an easier time? And what's a good theatre performance to take our children to next month?

Those and many more questions about parenting in its diverse aspects will form the content of the next issue of Child, the magazine for parents, out with The Times tomorrow. For inspiration, check out the article about a mother's battle with drugs and how the arrival of a severely disabled baby pulled her clear from that shadowy world into one of family and philanthropy.

With a dozen feature-length articles, Child is a mine of valuable information on a wide variety of child-rearing issues, so that every parent is sure to find something in it that is useful to them. There are also two competitions with great prizes to be won.

Child is published by Allied Newspapers and produced by Mediamaker.