How to play using sand: Hide toy animals or blocks in the sand tray and encourage your child to use their fingers and hands to explore and dig them out. Build their listening and language skills by naming each animal that they retrieve; you can also imitate the sounds that these animals make. Count how […]
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Make your own musical instruments at home: Bean shaker You can use a recycled plastic bottle Fill it with some beans or rice Decorate with paint or any arts and crafts items lying around at home Shake away!! Tin can drum You can use a recycled coffee tin or yoghurt tub Cut the end off
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Let us talk about stooling patterns in children. This topic is often taboo in society, but a healthy stooling pattern especially in children plays a very important role in maintaining overall good health. Morale of the story; we should be asking our children more about their stooling pattern. “Constipation” is a familiar term for many
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Johan van Lill praat met twee opvoedkundige sielkundiges, Alicia Bestbier en Jacoleen Vogel, oor ontwikkelingsuitdagings by kinders, wat soms lyk asof dit ADHD kan wees, maar dit is nie. Daar word so maklik ‘n diagnose van ADHD gemaak by kinders, maar baie ander ontwikkelingsuitdagings het presies dieselfde simptome, en moet eers uitgeskakel word.
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Anne Fishel posted an article on preliminary research conducted by “The Family Dinner Project” in collaboration with “Making Caring Common” on “How Covid changed dinner”. Their research included 696 American adults including 444 parents with children living at home, and suggests that family dinners increased for more than 50% of American families during the pandemic,
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Johan van Lill praat met twee opvoedkundige sielkundiges, Leanda Otto en Alicia Bestbier, oor pa en dogter-verhoudings tydens die tienerjare. Watter rol speel pa’s in die identiteit en selfbeeldvorming van hulle dogters, en hoe kan jy die beste pa wees vir jou dogter in die wêreld waarin hulle vandag leef?
The father-daughter relationship – RSG Groeipyne – 19 Augustus 2021 Read More »
Are your kids afraid of going to sleep at night? Are they afraid of monsters or zombies? Well don’t look further, Monster Spray will make all the monsters disappear!
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I would like to present my first video of a practical fun exercise you can do with your child, to create characters to explain any story that may relate to the child, to encourage the child through any difficult circumstance that they may be experiencing. Making the characters together allows your child to share some
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Johan van Lill praat oor “oorslaap” met twee opvoedkundige sielkundiges, Melissa Bekker en Alicia Bestbier. Hoe pak ‘n mens dit aan, en wanneer is my kind oud genoeg?
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Workshop – 20 May 2021 For teachers – Understanding the picky eater The focus of the workshop will be to help teachers identify picky and problem feeders in their classroom. The oral-motor aspects and sensory systems involved in feeding will be discussed and practically explained. We will look at the 32-steps to feeding we use
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