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Your Guide on Parenting a Special Needs Child
Your Guide on Parenting a Special Needs Child
When you are the mother of a child with special or additional needs, it’s easy to judge your own parenting skills at a much higher level. You are no doubt doing your best, but sometimes you feel that is not enough. Our specialists prepared multiple tips and suggestions on how to parent a special needs ...
Teach your kids budgeting: Here is how to start!
Teach your kids budgeting: Here is how to start!
Teaching your kids to budget is paramount to raising financially literate adults. Most adults who make the wisest financial decisions these days have attributed their sound choices to lessons they learned growing up. Therefore, an essential part of your kids' education is financial literacy. There is, in fact, no age limit to this as you ...
Autism – understanding the spectrum
Autism – understanding the spectrum
The word Autism gets used a lot in today’s society, but do we really understand what it is? I think it is really important to be well informed and to have a clear understanding. There is a lot of talk these days about Autism however a lot of it is a stereotype or a generalisation, ...
10 Tips to Overcome Back to School Anxiety
10 Tips to Overcome Back to School Anxiety
Anxiety on the first day of school is normal. However, there are lots of things you can do to help your child through the first day (or weeks) of school and make it as happy and smooth as possible. So how can we help our children overcome back to school anxiety? - Be mindful of ...
Potty Training. What you need, and need to know.
Potty Training. What you need, and need to know.
Once you have a toddler who is not only walking, but beginning to string sentences together, and seemingly fully grasped the concept of saying "No" to almost every request you know that soon enough it's going to be time for potty training.  Here's our biggest piece of advice: Don't rush it.  Once you feel you ...
How do I know if my toddler is ready for potty training?
How do I know if my toddler is ready for potty training?
Let us start with the fact that there is no medal for potty training your child. Like with almost everything child-related, toddlers will vary in when they are ready to be potty trained. Generally, between 18-24 months, they have the needed physical and cognitive skills to grasp the concept. However, some parents have found waiting ...
To Discipline Or Not To Discipline?
To Discipline Or Not To Discipline?
We all make mistakes (adults included) and so it’s important to remember that great people and attributes are built over a lifetime, not overnight. Children do need boundaries and discipline does play a part in parenting but don’t forget that we all have a distance to go in becoming fine people.  To help your child ...
The Benefit of Music and Singing With Toddlers
The Benefit of Music and Singing With Toddlers
Young children are constantly learning, they are playing with the way words work and the rhythm and patterns in speech. This can be encouraged and strengthened through music. Here are some of my favourite reasons for spending time singing with your child (even if you think your singing is reserved purely for the shower): It ...
Why Good Nutrition in Childhood is Vital
Why Good Nutrition in Childhood is Vital
Children need the right balance of nutrients in order to be the best version of themselves; they need food to give them energy, to provide for their growing bodies and to keep them healthy. The first important concept is to ensure that your child has access to a wide variety of foods from infancy. Keep ...