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How To Respond When Your Child Asks You “Why Do I Have To Go To Sleep?”

Children are naturally curious and asking questions is one of the ways in which they learn and discover the world around them, gaining information and developing critical thinking skills. Whilst adults know that sleep is necessary for our bodies and minds, often we cannot explain why children need to go...
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How Do Children Form Friendships?

A baby staring into its parent's eyes. A gentle embrace that soothes a crying infant. A delighted smile when a little one recognises a familiar voice or a face. Those early bonds are powerful and lasting - and they're the foundation for friendship. Every person's approach to friendship is unique....
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What Is The Father’s Role In The First 12 Months Of A Baby’s Life?

What is a father’s role in the first year of his baby’s life? Does a father's role differ from a mother's role when it comes to raising children? What if the family unit has two mothers or two fathers? Do parents even have 'roles'? There are no easy answers and...
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Practising Mindfulness In The Home

Mindfulness is about 'tuning in' to the moment and being fully engaged and undistracted. Being mindful means being fully present, aware of where you are what you're doing and the space that you're moving through. And the experts tell us that being mindful is good for us. In fact, the...
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Nido Childcare Centre Reaches Out To Dementia Sufferers

Dementia is a huge health issue in Australia but one early learning centre in the Perth suburb of Caversham has taken a proactive approach towards making a difference. What started as a morning of activities at Nido Early School in Caversham to celebrate Grandparents' Day has grown into a much...
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​The 100 Languages of Children

'They steal ninety-nine' Who are 'they'? Ninety-nine what? In many classrooms, the traditional approach is instructional. Educators are the providers of knowledge, in charge and in control of designing and deciding outcomes for the children who are empty vessels waiting to learn. But that's not how teacher and psychologist, Loris...
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Why The Environment Is Considered The 3rd Teacher In The Reggio Emilia Approach

We place enormous value on the role of the environment as a motivating and animating force in creating spaces for relations, options and emotional and cognitive situations that produce a sense of well-being and security- Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia For those unfamiliar with the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood...
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7 Ways Parents Can Help With Young Children And Their Values

If only it was easy to instil a decent moral code in our children. If only it was easy to bring them up to have strong values. If only we knew exactly how to help them develop a steadfast sense of right and wrong. As every parent knows, raising children...
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Preparing Your Child For Early School

We often hear the term 'school readiness', but it generally relates to a child who is about to enter the primary school system. Whilst this concept is of optimum importance and should be embraced by parents with older children, this term is not often applied to younger children who are...
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Project-Based Learning in Early Learning Centres

It's fascinating to see how project-based learning, once the domain of middle and secondary school curricula, is now becoming a preferred method of education in the early stages of a child's education. Learning by doing is of primary importance in early education and projects, particularly collaborative ones, provide innumerable touch...
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