Best Books for Kids Three to Five Years
Review of the Best Books for Kids aged 3 years old to 5 years old. These will be sure to be family favourite books.
Why Ball Play for Children of All Ages is Important
Our Early Childhood Educator, Jan Jones, explains why ball play is such an important part of a child’s development.
Language Development Milestones in the First Five Years
Many parents wonder if children’s language and listening skills are developing normally. While individual children develop their talking and listening skills at different rates, our early childhood expert, Jan Jones, reveals that there is a general pattern to children’s language development.
5 Popular Numeracy Picture Books to Share with Your Child
Five books to promote numeracy in your child. Not just learning how to count but everything mathematical in these fabulous picture books
How to Choose the Best Childcare Centre for Your Family
Childcare – it’s a big decision! Depending on your individual family circumstance, when you return to work after maternity leave, you may be looking at enrolling your child into a …
Childcare Options: What is Best for Your Child?
There’s so many childcare options in Australia. Picking the perfect childcare option for your little one is like finding a needle in a brightly coloured, sensory overloaded haystack. Childcare options …
Why you should expand your toddler’s vocabulary
Has your toddler started to string words together to make cute little sentences? Here’s why now is the perfect time to expand your toddler’s vocabulary. Any parent of a child …
Pediatric Dentistry – How To Avoid Seeing YOUR Kid In The Chair
In recent years, there has been a sharp spike in the need for pediatric dentistry. Most of this is down to brushing and eating habits. So what can parents do …
Toddler Daycare Room – Childcare Guide For 18 Months to 3 Years
It’s time… your little one is ready to enter the toddler daycare room and start some new relationships outside the family. It’s a big step for your toddler and for …
Playdough: top ten tips
See playdough in a whole new light.
Preschool changes behaviour, not the brain
Need a strong argument for play-based learning in preschool. Read on.
Winter themed books with perfectly paired activities
Stuck indoors? Don’t despair, your book collection can be a great inspiration for fun-play and creativity.
Building Resilience in Children
Tips for building resilience in children. Research suggests that a child’s resilience is one of the biggest indicators of success in life. So lets build them up
Five chores your 2-3 year old can do!
5 Chores your 2-3 year old can do. Teach your toddler to help around the house and tidy up after themselves from an early age with these appropriate chores.
Speech Milestones: Two Year Olds
Expert Tips: Speech Pathologist, Clare, explains speech milestones age 2 and 3. Including what children should be able to say at those ages.
Is my child autistic? What should I do if I am worried?
Is my child autistic? A guide to knowing when to seek help from a doctor and seek assessment to diagnose or rule out autism
5 Tips for Buying Baby’s First Shoes
Once your little one has mastered the art of crawling, one of the next big milestones is inevitably when they start to walk. There is a mountain of footwear advice …
Play with Toddlers to Develop Maths & English
Expert tips: English and maths activities for toddlers to learn through play. Using invitations to play to engage your children in learning
Speech development in Children: When to Worry
Expert Tips: Speech Pathologist, Clare, shares when to worry about your child’s speech development. And when not to worry.
Expert Advice: Stuttering in Children
Stuttering in children is a disorder that brings both worry and dread to parents. In this expert article, speech therapist Clare Francis lays out all you need to know about understanding, identifying and assisting your child with stuttering.
Sign Language
Q&A: Does anyone use sign language to help with behaviour?
Exploring and Learning: Fine Motor Skills
When you hear ‘fine motor skills’, you’re hearing about your child’s finger and hand muscles – the way children grasp, manipulate, stack, sort and develop hand-eye coordination. These skills are an important part of childhood development as they help children prepare for pre-school and school tasks such as writing, drawing, cutting and colouring.
The sound of speech – the ages and stages of children’s speech
Learning to communicate is a step by step process for all children, but many parents wonder if their children’s speech and language is developing normally. Our early childhood expert, Jan Jones, discusses the stages of speech development, the general pattern that most children follow, and when to seek help.
Early Childhood Tips: Block Play
Block play can do more than simply entertain your toddler. Our early childhood expert, Jan Jones, explains how it can help with their development, and the best ways to implement it.
How your child develops?
The first few years are extremely important in the growth and development of your child. Parents guide their children through these years. These are wonderful times to laugh, play and learn from and with your child. Our early childhood expert, Jan Jones, looks at the four main areas of development and provides some ideas to help aid your child’s development.
Creative development in babies and toddlers
Children grow naturally – therefore, given the right environment most will grow into happy well-adjusted human beings. Jan Jones explains how the carer’s rule is to enhance the setting and respond to their interests, answer their questions and cater for their energy, and encouraging them to take advantage of the moment.
Stages of Development by Age (12 months to 5 years)
Jan Jones lists the stages of development from 12 months to five years. She covers developmental milestones for skills such as fine, gross and social, as well as speech and language, and suggests ways to encourage development at home.
Childhood Development: Developing through Play
Decades of research have documented that play has a crucial role in the optimal growth, learning and development of children from infancy through adolescence.