Every link on this page was opened by a person, and the date is next to it.

Every link is opened, by a person, once a term — Not a script checking for a 404. A page can return perfectly well and have changed into something else entirely, and only a person notices that
The date sits next to the link — So you can decide for yourself. Something checked eight months ago is worth clicking with slightly lowered expectations, and you're entitled to know which it is
Dead links are removed, not hidden — Taken off the same week, with a line saying what used to be there. A quietly deleted resource looks like it was never recommended
Changed links are re-described — When a service narrows what it offers, the description here changes too. That is most of the maintenance and none of it is visible unless somebody says so
Anybody can report one — There's a form at the bottom of this page. It takes ten seconds and it is genuinely the most useful thing a reader can do
Who keeps it — Name a person on your own version, not a committee. A page maintained by "the team" is a page nobody is maintaining

Anything that wants an account first — If a page won't tell you what it does until you've signed up, it isn't a resource, it's a mailing list with an article attached
Downloadable guides in exchange for an email — The lead magnet. Almost always four pages of the obvious with a course at the end
Anybody selling a parenting course — Including good ones. There's no way to link to some and not others without becoming a recommender, and that's a different job than this page does
Directories of directories — A link that leads to another list wastes the ten minutes somebody actually had
Anything with an affiliate link — Nobody here is paid for a click. It costs the page some obvious inclusions and it is the reason the list can be believed
Advice with no author — If a page won't say who wrote it or when, it doesn't go on

Once a month, and that's a maximum — Not "occasionally", which means whenever somebody feels like it. Twelve a year and no extras for anything short of a genuine emergency
Under three hundred words — Which is about ninety seconds. Anything longer stops being read by month four and everybody involved knows it
What's in it — What changed on this page, two or three things happening locally, and one thing worth reading. Nothing else
The unsubscribe link is at the top — Not buried in six-point grey at the bottom. Leaving should be as easy as arriving and it is a small test of whether anybody meant the rest of this
Nobody is sold anything — No sponsored sections, no partner offers, no "a message from". The list is never shared, sold or lent, and it is deleted if this page stops
If it stops being useful, leave — It happens — children get older and the whole thing becomes irrelevant. That's a success rather than a loss and nobody will email to ask why

Two good sources often disagree — Sleep, weaning and screens are the three worst for it. Both sources can be careful and current and still say opposite things, because the evidence genuinely isn't settled
Prefer the one that says what it doesn't know — A page listing the limits of its own advice is almost always the better page. Certainty is cheap and it is the main thing being sold
Check the date on the advice, not the page — Sites get redesigned and re-published without the advice being touched. A 2014 recommendation on a 2026 page is common
Ignore anything with a single dramatic claim — One study, one number, one headline. Real guidance is boring and hedged, which is why it travels badly
Your health visitor or GP outranks this page — By a long way, and they know your child. Nothing linked here is medical advice and none of it is a substitute for asking somebody who can see you
It's allowed to not decide — Most of these questions do not need answering this week. "I'll leave that for now" is a legitimate outcome of reading anything on this page