Creativity and Learning: How Parents can Help their Pre-schooler thrive Physically, Mentally and Emotionally through Creative Play at Home

Creativity and Learning: How Parents can Help their Pre-schooler thrive Physically, Mentally and Emotionally through Creative Play at Home

Have you delighted in how eager your pre-schooler is to embrace every aspect of life? Have you experienced their never ending chatter, asking questions, getting messy, tasting, squishing, touching and enjoying everything that crosses their path?

You might be aware that young children can develop their thinking, their language, imagination, speaking and listening skills through creative play. Have you marveled at how skilfully your child’s preschool teachers involve the children in their care in creative play? We know preschool can be a wonderful experience which helps our little ones for communicate and interact with others and of course enhances their learning.

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Talking to Pre-schoolers about Bodies, Boundaries and Baby-Making

Talking to Pre-schoolers about Bodies, Boundaries and Baby-Making

Has your pre-schooler started asking questions like “Where did I come from”? “How did I get in your tummy?” “How did I get out of your tummy mummy”? Or “Why do girls have a vagina and boys have a penis”?

And perhaps you’ve you found your children touching their private parts or even showing them to their friends and you’ve been unsure of how to handle it.

Each of these situations can cause a great deal of stress for parents who don’t feel confident or even know where to begin to answer their young child’s questions about sex and sexuality. Now you know that saying “that’s a good question, ask your father”, or “I don’t know, ask you mother” is just going to get you into trouble!

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Understanding the Teenage Brain: Why your Teenager seems erratic.

Understanding the Teenage Brain: Why your Teenager seems erratic.

Why your Teenager seems erratic, emotionally Unstable, Unresponsive, Disrespectful or even Reckless.

Are you raising one or more teenagers, and are they argumentative, volatile and even down right disrespectful? Are you wondering who took your sweet child away and delivered a teenager who’s mood can go from ambivalence to rage in a split second over the simplest of comments or questions?

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Raising more than one child: making it work for everyone

Raising more than one child: making it work for everyone

Do you have more than one child? Do you have two, three or more children?

Do you find that you simply don’t have enough time for each child, for your partner and especially no time to yourself?

Raising a family of with children of different ages, personalities, needs and then add to the mix, taking care of the home and maybe even working in or on a business can make it a huge challenge.

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Protecting Your Children Online

Protecting Your Children Online

Do you struggle to get your children off the internet? Is there a daily fight?

Accessing the world through the internet is common for most families today. Even very young children enjoy games and you tube videos and can get VERY upset when asked to stop! Older children also enjoy games as well as connecting with others through social media. BUT…are you worried that your children are accessing harmful and inappropriate content or meeting up with predators online? Are you worried they are spending too much time on the internet?

With most children on the internet and so much harmful content out there that they shouldn’t be exposed like pornography and graphic violence it’s crucial to protect them. BUT you can’t be watching your kids 24/7 so what can you do?

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Myths, Benefits & Challenges of Raising a Multi-Lingual Child

Myths, Benefits & Challenges of Raising a Multi-Lingual Child

Do you or your partner speak more than one language at home? Would you like to raise your child to be multilingual but you’re worried that they might:

  • Fall behind in language development?
  • Not do as well at school?
  • Get confused between the languages?
  • Not want to learn one or more languages?
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