Child Development

Blanks Levels Of Questioning – Stimulating Children’s Language Development

March 18, 2010

At the end of February I wrote about a great booklet called Early Learners Games And Activities. This booklet not only gives you ideas of activities to do with young children but also “What you can say?” prompts. Julie from Works For Me Homemaking left a very insightful comment about “Blanks levels of questioning” and [...]

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Reflections On A New Baby – 9 Months On

October 23, 2009

I usually don’t post photos of the children in full, but as he is still so little and while we are in Singapore, you will get to see a few photos of our beautiful baby! He is pictured above enjoying breakfast this morning at our hotel. Yesterday my lovely baby turned 9 months old. As [...]

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Increasing Independence In Children – Making Their Own Lunch

May 21, 2009

This post is part of a series of simple activities that can help increase your child’s independence. These activities are aimed at children aged two and above. Previous posts can be found below: Juicing oranges Cutting Food Grating Food Having a child make their own lunch is a very simple but liberating activity for a [...]

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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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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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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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Developmental Play

April 9, 2009

Image by Steve and Jemma Copley This is my second contribution to PhD in Parenting’s Carnival Of Play. You can read my other post/s here: Carnival Of Play and Playdough Recipe We are lucky enough that at the school where our children attend, they value play and see it as an essential part of a [...]

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Bullying – Who Is Likely To Be A Victim?

October 17, 2008

Time Magazine recently published Schoolyard Bullying: Which Kids Are Most Vulnerable? You often read about children who suffer more than one episode of bullying and I have wondered if there is any characteristics that make some children more prone to becoming the victims of bullying. The article from Time was based on research conducted in [...]

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The Financial Crisis And The Impact On Children

October 10, 2008

There has been so much coverage on the current state of the global economy and it shows no signs of going away quickly. Without wanting to add too much more to this saturation, I really wanted to highlight two articles that I read recently which really stood out for me. The first was on what [...]

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Reason To Daydream

September 11, 2008

Image by ninjapoodle A blog that I like to read regularly Education Innovation, put me on to an article from the Boston Globe which was detailing the research from scientists on the importance of daydreaming. The article Daydream Achiever I found interesting not only from the perspective of current education processes and my own children, [...]

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The Impact Of Background TV

July 25, 2008

(Photo source: flickr – szeretlek) I came across a number of articles regarding a new study, published in the July/August issue of Child Development. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts. They looked at group of 50 children, who were aged from 1 to 3 years. In this research, children came [...]