Why do children often prefer the box a gift comes in over the gift itself? As adults, we see the box as mere packaging. To a child, it’s a blank canvas limited only by their imagination.
Kids love Cardboard Boxes
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Exploring the Benefits of Bilateral Integration
Did you know that your pre-schooler possesses an amazing talent for coordinating both sides of their body? This skill, known as bilateral integration, is crucial for their early development as it helps improve motor skills, coordination, and overall functionality.
Top Tips for Play
What are your top play tips? With so much information on play and so little time, I hope that some of these tips will help to ease the load in our ‘perfect parenting’ world. Sometimes it is good...
TOYS and PLAY from babies to pre-schoolers!
Children love toys, and the correct toys can help in our children’s development. Toys can help build creativity, imagination, gross motor, and fine motor skills and of course, can provide limitless...
Parenting in a Pandemic: Having grace for yourself is key!
Thoughts of 2020 and 2021 may be associated with anxiety, turbulence, and being thrown in the deep end without knowing how to swim. All the more so if you find yourself navigating how to parent...
Finding Your Balance
Balance is the foundation of gross motor and sporting skills. Definition of balance: An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. Today we are so busy...
Best shoes for Babies and Toddlers
We South Africans have always been told how our grandparents walked to school barefoot until they reached high school age, and then only then could their hardworking parents eventually afford to buy...
Routines: Why They Matter
A routine is the game plan that gets your child up in the morning and tucked into bed at night. If things feel a bit chaotic, your child is irritable, and outbursts are a frequent occurrence, then...
3 Ways to help your child cope with back-to-school jitters
The uncertainties around children going back to school have parents facing unfamiliar challenges. Fear and anxiety levels are bound to rise as children are, firstly, leaving their place of shelter...
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Staying Fit
For nine months we carry a wonderful miracle and after the birth we live in a bubble of euphoria, staring in awe at the beautiful bundle of joy we’ve created. But, as the euphoria fades and reality...
How to manage your child’s screen time – 3 Tips
During the COVID-19 pandemic, children are spending more time in front of screens than ever before. With the whole family behind screens at home and everything from work, school, playdates taking...
5 Tips for overwhelmed parents
Stress is part of everyday life. The physical symptoms of stress: increased heart rate, tension in the neck and shoulders, tummy cramps, sweaty palms and others, are linked to our primal...
Today’s tip for developing communication skills is to pause
Babies and children often need a little longer to respond to our communication or to initiate interaction with us. This is totally normal, they're still putting all their skills together. When we...
Gross motor play during the Covid-19 pandemic
“From early on, movement is associated with better cognitive outcome, and gross motor activity has an impact on learning as well as fine motor function,” says Nicole Hilburn, Peadiatric...
Online classes in the comfort of your own home
Exciting news! Clamber Club is running interactive, dynamic and entertaining online classes! This means your children can continue to move, learn, grow and develop…. AND they won’t miss out on their...
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...
10 ways to BOND with your Baby!
We hear this term so often that is has the danger of becoming meaningless, when in fact it is a critical part of building a trusting and loving relationship between you and your baby. Bonding is the...
Baby and me home work out
After having a baby, you realize that there is not much time for yourself let alone time to get to the gym to try get and get your the pre-baby body back or to just get some good endorphins flowing....