The Value of unstructured play

Posted on June 23, 2014

BY TOM JACOBS • May 09, 2014 | Science of Society There has been plenty of hand-wringing in recent years about the “overscheduled child.” With after-school hours increasingly dominated by piano lessons, soccer practice, and countless other planned activities, many of us have …
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Saying NO, and the response (snippet)

Posted on May 2, 2014

Whenever I verbally discipline my four year old, or tell her she can’t have something, she responds by telling me she doesn’t love me or that she loves her father more than me. How should I respond to such behaviour? Mum of …
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Q&A:- Saying NO, and the Response

Posted on May 2, 2014

Whenever I verbally discipline my four year old, or tell her she can’t have something, she responds by telling me she doesn’t love me or that she loves her father more than me. How should I respond to such behaviour? Mum of …
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Play Fruit Paper Toy

Posted on April 7, 2014

These are indeed ridiculously CUTE!!! Play Fruits, great for toddlers or older, especially if they are playing shops and have cute little stores set up at home. These templates come directly from mrprintables….. Mrprintable have a extensive range of great …
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Infants Need to Hear Adults Talk

Posted on December 12, 2013

Infant-directed speech plays a huge role in language development Published on December 10, 2013 by Art Markman, Ph.D. in Ulterior Motives They had 19-month-old infants wear an audio recorder for at least one full day. Many infants wore the recorder for several days, …
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How Hush a Bye Baby is the best medicine: Lullabies lower heart rates and ease pain in children

Posted on November 26, 2013

Songs such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Hush a Bye Baby and other well-loved songs helped patients in Great Ormond Street Hospital feel better Heart rates dropped and the children were in visibly less pain But reading stories with pop-up pictures or …
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Play Ideas: 12 – 16 Months

Posted on November 7, 2013

Play Ideas: 12 – 16 Months Toys they can push eg. truck Pulling toys eg. Duck on stringFitting & Matching Stacking objects Simple shape sorter Chunky peg men in boat New noise making toys eg. Drum, zylophone, maracas Posting box Pegs …
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Winning & Losing

Posted on November 3, 2013

There is just so much to learn as a child!  And one of the most important lessons is winning and the other is losing.  These are certainly hard lessons to learn.  A lot of this learning takes place in childhood …
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Bubble Dough

Posted on October 17, 2013

Bubble Dough – From the Creative Playhouse Website    This is amazing! I sort of made it by accident, well not by accident, but just through curiosity… after making our Cold Sensory Snow with shaving foam and cornflour, I wondered what other …
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Fun can Certainly be Educational

Posted on September 15, 2013

Unfortunately, getting outside is becoming a rarity and children need to be supervised and due to our demanding schedules parents are becoming more time poor therefore, children spending a lot more time in doors.  Nevertheless, if children are inside and …
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