April 2009

Increasing Independence In Children – Cutting

April 30, 2009

Over the next month I will be presenting a series of simple activities that can help increase your child’s independence. These activities are aimed at children aged two and above. Last week I went through the example of juicing oranges. Today it is teaching your child to cut using a child sized knife. Equipment: 1 [...]

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Children’s Timetable Term 2, 2009

April 29, 2009

For Victorian families, this is week 2 of term 2 for 2009. We now know the schedule of activities for the children, so time to revamp the children’s timetables again. The changes are only to the after school activities, with the boys now playing football and Possum starting gymnastics. If you are looking for some [...]

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10 Children’s Activities In Melbourne For May

April 28, 2009

Out of the ten children’s activities listed last month, we only managed to fit in one, which was rock climbing at Hard Rock. We actually took our two eldest sons and four friends for our second son’s 8th birthday. They had a fantastic time and it really was great value for money as you could [...]

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The Rise Of The Dummy Mummies

April 24, 2009

“The Rise Of The Dummy Mummies” – this was the title of an article in the Sunday Life Magazine from The Sunday Age on April 19, 2009. With a title like that I had to check it out. A quick Google search found that this was actually an extract from an original article published by [...]

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Increasing Independence In Children – Juicing Oranges

April 23, 2009

My eldest son attending a Montessori preschool when we lived in the inner city. There were many things that I loved about the Montessori approach and I learnt a great deal from the preschool Montessori teacher. My other children to date have now attended a play based pre school which I am very happy with. [...]

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10 Ways To Encourage Children To Write

April 21, 2009

Image by a.drian To compliment my post on 10 Ways To Encourage Children To Read, I thought I would put together 10 Ways To Encourage Children To Write. Although fond of reading, my two boys need a bit of encouragement to practice (neatly!) their handwriting. Putting this list together now was good timing for us, [...]

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Mother’s Advice – Children Dressing Themselves

April 17, 2009

Image by Anthrovik On a post I wrote in March on Encouraging Children To Dress Independently a reader asked for suggestions on how to handle a 3 year old who can dress themselves but is not interested in doing so. It seems like the mother has tried a number of things yet her son is [...]

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Why?

April 16, 2009

Image by Chidorian In the latest Response-Able Parent Newsletter from Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman they look at some questions that all parents ask at some point: “Why don’t my children listen to me?” “Why doesn’t he behave?” “What’s the matter with her?” “Why does she keep doing that?” The newsletter challenges parents to perhaps [...]

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Building Play Into The Every Day

April 15, 2009

Image by Lepiaf.Geo This is my last contribution to the Carnival of Play. You can read my other posts here: Carnival Of Play and Playdough Recipe Developmental Play 10 Quotes On The Importance Of Play One of the beautiful things about play is that it can be done almost any time, any where and with [...]

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10 Quotes On The Importance Of Play

April 14, 2009

To continue my contributions for the Carnival of Play, I have collated 10 quotes on the importance and worth of play. You can read my other posts here: Carnival Of Play and Playdough Recipe Developmental Play “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato [...]

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