Stimulating your baby includes promoting his physical development and co-ordination with games and outdoor pursuits, intellectual development with conversation and reading, but also SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. Good social development includes: Emotional resilience and strength, as well as strong character values. The ability to develop and sustain sound...
When observing adults, it is clear that all human beings have a special talent or ability, some particular attribute that they are good at; even excel at; or that they love. This may be in a variety of different spheres such as: caring for others ...
Yes, it’s 2021 and I have a left-handed child in my class. The mother is a single mom, and a distinguished surgeon. Grandpa is also a retired medical doctor and helps her a tremendous amount in bringing up, looking after, and transporting the little boy to and...
Babies. Connecting through Physical contact. It is truly instinctive to touch and cuddle your baby, and this is in fact crucial for his intellectual development. Don’t listen to all the ‘Mother Grundy’s’ who tell you, you will spoil the child; keep him close to you ,...
Firstly, there are practical considerations, and then there are ethical considerations. Practical concerns: Proximity is important, as your child has to sit in the car in traffic while you get them to school. So ideally, the school should not be too far from where you live...
Getting your kids to eat healthy food and what to feed them. Children are growing at a rapid rate during their first 5 years and need a good balance of essential nutrients for optimum growth. Thereafter each 5 years or so their nutritional programme should be...
Discipline is teaching that there are consequences for your actions. That there are structures and parameters for behaviour everywhere in life. Setting up the parameters or the guidelines for their behaviour is done by the adults in 'charge' for the purpose of assisting in acquiring...
I’m writing to you as a parent of three children myself; having seen many of my friends’ children grow up too, and many problems negotiated and discussed along the way. Today we realise that bringing up children successfully is not such a cut and dried exercise,...
