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Children enrich our lives with their joyful energy, their laughter and their uncomplicated spontaneity. They need to explore, experiment and discover as they learn. But children get tired like us, and they do make mistakes so try..
- Take a [...]
Ingredients
2 cups of cornfour
1 cup cold water
Pour the cornflour into a bowl, add the cold water slowly, stirring constantly and stop when the water is barely absorbed by the cornflour.
Gloop is easy to clean and wonderful fun, particularly outdoors.
Gloop will brush off clothing as a dry powder.
Is it solid or is it liquid?
Pour it on [...]
Stress is part of life these days but we need to watch that it doesn’t become a way of life! The world is so busy and we can easily get caught up in the frenzy.
As the stress response, i.e. how we react when faced with a challenging situation, is set in the early years it [...]
Praise has had some bad press lately but hey do we mind if someone tells us what a nice meal we’ve cooked, how nice we look or what a great job we have done etc?
The main thing about praise is it needs to be genuine and not over the top.
Constantly telling a child they are [...]
Play dough is a great activity for children and parents of all ages.
Ingredients
2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
2 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon food colouring
Mix all dry ingredients, add oil and boiling water with food colouring, mix well.
Store in an airtight container.
To add interest you can add glitter for a [...]
Everyone learns best when they can select their particular area of interest.
Research shows that young children learn best by exploring, trying things out, finding out what works and what doesn’t. Young children learn best through playing in an environment created for their learning were their interests are supported rather than just having information “told to [...]
Young children react in various ways to starting kindergarten; even some of the most confident children take a while to become used to the new environment.
The first day
Be prepare to stay and help settle your child
Some children take several visits to kindergarten before they feel comfortable enough to stay on their own. As parents / [...]
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