The simplest way to make a household run smoothly is to establish a consistent routine. And while predictability might sound rigid and boring to adults, your children will thrive on it.
Why Routines Matter!
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Learning to Emotionally Regulate is Key
Self-regulation is the ability for us to manage our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Particularly in young children, instead of becoming overwhelmed and reactive, we need to teach them to become aware of the experience and make choices around how they can respond.
Teaching Children How to Balance
In the playful world of pre-schoolers, mastering the art of physical balance is not just about preventing tumbles on the playground. It’s a crucial skill that sets the stage for a lifetime of success.
x5 Reasons Why Play Is Important
Young children can develop many skills through the power of play. They may develop their language skills, emotions, creativity, and social skills. Play helps to nurture imagination and give a child a sense of adventure. Through this, they can learn essential skills such as problem solving, working with others.
Healthy Food for Kids
Tim Spector (a professor of genetic epidemiology with subspecialties in the microbiome and diet), advocates for an intake of 30 DIFFERENT types of fruit and veg per week in order to optimize our gut health. 30 sounds like a crazy amount doesn’t it? But when you think about it, this includes not only your typical fruit and veg, but also nuts, seeds, grains, herbs, and spices.
How to Raise a Happy Child
Explore seven practical steps you can take to raise a child who will make a real difference in the world. Seven steps to help your child feel happy and able and achieve success in life.
Discover Your Child’s Gross Motor Potential
Gross motor skills involve the coordination of large muscles, enabling your child to perform activities like crawling, walking, jumping, and running. These skills are the building blocks of physical development, and by nurturing them, we empower our children to navigate the world with confidence and grace.
Supercharge Your Child’s Coordination Skills
Get ready for some exciting and engaging activities that will not only keep your kids entertained but will also help them develop bilateral integration skills and improve their coordination!
Let’s Explore The Magic Of Coordination
Whether it’s your children’s first attempt to crawl, their triumphant first steps, or the playful use of both hands during playtime, bilateral integration stands at the core of your child’s developmental journey.
I Can Do It Myself
From an early age, a child’s search for independence is energised by the desire to make things happen and to feel capable and competent. A young child’s opinion about their capabilities is, to a large extent, based on their environment provided, and on their parent’s and caregiver’s responses. In the context of lifelong learning, self-regulated learning is an important competence.
Colic in Babies – Enough to make you scream!
We estimate that Colic affects 15 to 25 percent of families. I use the word families on purpose here because the effects of colic are not just limited to the baby; everybody in that household (be it mom, dad, or siblings) are, to some degree affected by the change in the family dynamic when an inconsolable baby is dropped into the mix.
The Sense of Movement
Everyone knows how important a diverse set of experiences that stimulates all five of our senses is for development. We encourage children to touch, taste, listen, look, and smell all of the things in our environment. These tactile senses are critical to our development allow us to explore and make sense of the world. But have you ever thought about your other senses?
The ones that help you move, keep you upright and let you know where your limbs are? In this blog we explore the proprioceptive system that makes it possible for us to be aware of our own movements and to perceive the location of our body parts in space without a visual reference to them.
When Things Go Bump In the Night
Night terrors can be scary but are rarely something of concern. Implementing better sleep routines and ensuring your child gets rest that is needed, which is a solid 11 to 12 hours of sleep, can improve their sleep quality and lesson the occurrence of night terrors.
A Child’s Cry for Help: Teaching Emotional Regulation
Self-regulation is the ability for us to manage our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Instead of becoming overwhelmed and reactive, we seat ourselves in awareness of our experiences and make choices around how we wish to respond. This is particularly important in early childhood as our infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers are largely dependent on caregivers to regulate.
How Do We Get Back To The Village?
But, the past century has drastically changed the concept of community, no matter if you live in a rural area, a suburban neighbourhood, or an urban metropolis. Families no longer co-habit as intergenerationally as they once did, especially as the appeal of the nuclear family began to increase.
Add to that the fact that extended families often fracture and live further and further apart. We are so caught up in the reality of constant “busy-ness” that we don’t even take time to get to know our neighbours.
Let Them Play. It’s Their Job!
Active play is such an important part of preschool children’s lives, as it builds up their self-confidence and increases their emotional well-being – physically, socially, emotionally, and developmentally. As we all know, active play is the work of a child and a major contributor to the holistic development in young children.
We Love to Read!
Taking the time to read to a child can help them to discover the joy of reading. Whether it’s reading a story to little ones at bedtime or enjoying a novel together with an older child, parents and families can help boost children’s reading ability and, in turn, their learning potential.
Early Reflexes in Babies
A reflex is an involuntary movement or action their little bodies take in response to their own movement or something in the environment. Reflexes control all of those things that our body needs regulated so that we don’t even realise we are receiving information, such as heart rate and breathing. Some reflexes occur only in specific periods of development and then are integrated naturally.