Body awareness is an important part of the child development process. This concept can seem more hidden and less obvious than other milestones children meet in the early years. In this blog you can...
Dressing Up Promotes Body Awareness!
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Tips to Help your Preschool Child be more Independent
Fostering independence helps children to become aware of their abilities, to learn new skills, to practice patience and concentration, to experience a sense of achievement and to develop a positive...
Avoid Late Night Lunchbox Nightmares
These three words have had a long term ‘love-hate’ relationship with most parents. Back to school, back to stationery shopping, back to early morning swimming, back to school fee payments, back to...
Get Picky Eaters to Enjoy their Food
There are many reasons why kids shun their food. To end your dinner-table battles, you’ll need to know which kind of choosy eater you’re dealing with—and how our low-stress strategies can help....
“Let Them Eat Cake”
It is a natural parental instinct to fill up the fridge with fresh fruits and vegetables and to never pass that enticing ‘sweets and treats’ aisle in the shop when we take our little ones on a...
Create Your Own Playground
Our kids love taking advantage of all that summer has to offer, long days, lots of sunlight, and lots of freedom to play and to explore outside. But it can be a challenge finding enough activities...
Bean Bag Fun and Games
Bean bag activities for kids work on hand-eye coordination, body awareness, concentration, and integration of motor skills like touch, movement, proprioception, and vision. Parents, carers,...
My Toddler Won’t Share
Often parents leave a playdate or family gathering red-faced after a massive flood of tears over a toy. Why can’t my toddler share toys with a friend, she is great with sharing her food with me at...
Build a Sensory Garden Path
Children love being barefoot! It’s comfortable and it enables them to feel free. What is a sensory garden path? The path is made up of different sections containing material with different textures,...
Understanding Milk Options
Have you noticed how many different types of “milks” there are to choose from these days? And I say “milk” because more than half of the options available aren’t even proper milk (I mean how exactly...
I Can Do It Myself
“If you show me – I see, if you tell me - I hear, If I do - understand!” From an early age, a child’s search for independence is energised by the desire to make things happen and to feel capable and...
Motor Milestones
Gross motor skills are those which require whole body movement and which involve core stabilising muscles of the body to perform everyday functions, such as standing and walking, running and...
Finger Painting and other Creative Endeavours
Finger painting is great for young children's development! Giving children opportunities to paint with their fingers helps them develop their fine motor skills and encourages them to be creative....
Colic in Babies – Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Colic: the five-letter word that is enough to bring any parent to tears (or exhausted sobbing in the corner of a room). It is amazing, when we are pregnant, we don’t (usually) care what the sex of...
Encourage your Children to be Active
Let’s face it, growing up today is a completely different ball game to when you were young. It doesn’t matter if you’re in your late 20s or 30s and coming to grips with parenthood for the first...
Imaginary Play Equips Our Children for the Future
From around 14 months of age, you will notice that your toddler is starting to imitate roles that they see play out in your home. For example, while you are feeding them, they also want a spoon and...
Encourage Imagination at Every Stage of a Child’s Life
Activities that encourage imagination play a vital role in childhood development at all stages. From birth, children are constantly learning about the world. While senses such as touch, smell,...
Three Simple Parenting Solutions for 2022
What's on your New Year's resolutions list? If you're a parent, perhaps your goal is to spend more quality time with your children, be more consistent in your rule-setting, be more patient, listen...