Tiny Happy People is a BBC website full of advice health visitors and family nurses can share with parents and colleagues on a range of early years care concerns. We cover everything from bonding with babies and toddlers, to speech and language development, to play ideas, as well as offering practical help with parents' routines including changing nappies, bedtimes, feeding, weaning and potty training.
Across the Tiny Happy People site, you'll find videos modelling best practice that you can show to parents and families on visits. These are all evidence-based and have been quality-checked by panels of professionals including health visitors, midwives and speech and language therapists.
We also offer parents knowledge of how simple play and chat benefits babies and toddlers' development.
Health visitor talking about Tiny Happy People.
Below you'll find a suggested selection of resources you might find useful to share with families at various contact points, as well as some sections that you might find useful around SEND and speech delays, bilingual families and parents' behavioural concerns.
Just click the visit title in the menu to jump to the right resources for you.
As well as the below website resources, you may want to recommend our accessible, warm and welcoming Instagram and Facebook channels to parents you work with - just suggest they follow @bbctinyhappypeople.
Health visitor in Scotland? Click here
A collection of resources tailored to health visits in Scotland.
Antenatal visit
New birth visit
Reasons babies cry
A list of common reasons babies cry and ways to respond to them.
How to change a nappy and make it fun
A guide to changing nappies and making it a fun, comfortable experience for babies.
How touch is important to newborns. video
A video explaining to parents how their touch is important for bonding with newborns.
How far newborn babies can focus. video
A video experiment showing parents the importance of close face-to-face eye contact with their newborn.
5 ways babies communicate from day one
5 different visual communication cues babies give - ideal for sharing with new parents so they can look out for them with their own baby.
6-8 week contact
Activities for families to try
Parent-child bonding
What is baby massage?
An article explaining the benefits of baby massage.
How to cope with constant crying
Tips from ICON on how parents can cope when their baby won't stop crying - ideal for reassuring new parents who are concerned about crying.
Printable leaflet
6-8 week check leaflet
A leaflet to take with you for the 6-8 week check. Includes QR codes to scan and take parents to films on the THP website.
3 month contact
Activities for families to try
Exercise time with baby. video
A film showing parents how they can help chat their children through simple muscle-strengthening exercises.
Language development
Routine advice
Mealtime advice and recipes. collection
If you see parents before they begin weaning at 6 months, you might like to share with them our advice and recipes for weaning.
Weaning baby off the dummy. video
This film helps explain to parents how they can try and wean babies off the dummy to help with their ability to speak.
1 year review
Activities for families to try
Language development
Children's development
Parental wellbeing
Children's emotional development
2 year review
How to be a super communicator. collection
Films supporting the Early Language Identification Measure and Intervention (ELIM-I) introduced for the 2-2 1/2 year review in England - learn techniques to be a super communicator with your child.
The importance of play
Language development
Activities for families to try
Routine advice
Tips for a calmer bedtime routine
Vicki Dawson from The Sleep Charity helps explain some simple ways to establish a good bedtime routine with kids.
Mealtime advice and recipes. collection
A collection of ideas for interaction around mealtimes as well as family-friendly recipe ideas.
Pre-school review
School readiness
Activities for families to try
Language development
Children with Additional Support Needs (ASN)
Speech and language development questions answered
Speech and Language Therapists' answers to parents' most common language development questions - could be useful for answering any queries you have from parents.
Working with bilingual families
Behavioural concerns and emotional development
Health visitor in Scotland?
Health visitor in Scotland? Click here
A collection of resources tailored to health visits in Scotland.
