Children need more hugs, not 'tough love' from parents, health secretary ... trends now
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You should hug your little ones more as 'tough love' is no longer the way to raise children, the Health Secretary has warned.
Victoria Atkins said generations of parents were given the wrong advice about how to care for newborn babies.
Long-held beliefs that hugging a child too much will make them 'clingy' or that crying babies should be left to soothe themselves are being targeted as part of a new campaign.
The Start for Life programme, recently launched by the Department of Health, aims to dispel these myths and encourage parents to cuddle their children as much as they would like. It also recommends comforting babies when crying and
