Image by Crimfants My History With The Cat Napping Baby With the exception of our first son, once our babies reached four months old, their sleeping during the day turned into cat …
Increasing Independence In Children – Taking The Train To The City
This post is part of a series of activities that can help increase your child’s independence. This activity was for my child who is 10 years old, as was the below post: …
Increasing Independence In Children – Cooking Dinner
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 …
Increasing Independence In Children – Making Their Own Lunch
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 …
Increasing Independence In Children – Grating
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 …
10 Tips For Coping With A New Baby
Our beautiful little boy is three and half months old now. It is amazing how much you learn with each child. Some of this stuff I wish I knew when I had …
Reflections On A New Baby – 3 Months On
Our little baby was three months last week – a quarter birthday as explained by one of his siblings. He is a beautifully calm little character and seems quite unfazed by the …
Increasing Independence In Children – Cutting
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 …
Increasing Independence In Children – Juicing Oranges
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 …
10 Ways To Encourage Children To Write
Image by a.drianTo 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 …
Mother’s Advice – Children Dressing Themselves
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 …
Building Play Into The Every Day
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 …
10 Quotes On The Importance Of Play
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 …
Developmental Play
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 …
What Can Happen To Adolescent Boys
I love a bit of multi-tasking, so at the gym on Monday night I took my headphones, plugged them into the cross trainer and tuned in to a favourite show of mine …
10 Ways To Encourage Children To Read
Image: Rachel From Cupcakes Take The Cake So far I am lucky that my oldest two children love reading and will do so of their own accord. Our prep child has just …
Encouraging Children To Dress Independently
In my last post on Time Management For Parents I noted that spending time with children teaching them to do things themselves is a great way to free up more time for …