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Taking care of your child's oral health begins with proper toothbrushing habits, and it's never too early (or too late) to start.  Some children are keen to learn, engage and be independent in various self-care tasks, while for others mastering these skills can be a challenge or even a battle. It ...

Playing with other children and friendships are important. As your child starts school, making friends and learning how to form successful peer relationships becomes a key issue. Friendships are important for children’s self-esteem, when your child has good friends, he feels like he belongs, that ...

Learning to tie your shoelaces is a right of passage for early primary school children. It comes with a lot of persistence, assistance, double knots and loose laces.  While there is some debate whether the traditional single loop (“around the tree and down the bunny hole”) method is simpler ...

When clothes irritate it can really make us uncomfortable and take our attention away from the task at hand. For those of us with this sensitivity, some fabrics, threads, labels and clothing tags, waistbands, fasteners, seams and even a particular colour can really interfere with how we function in ...

Let’s face it - toilet training is hard work. Just when you are about to celebrate throwing away the nappies, giving away the change table and thinking you are on your way … you suddenly hear from the toilet room the inevitable “Mum … I’m finished!!!!!” … yep – you have forgotten to ...

“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)   The benefits of reading are limitless! For children, reading promotes brain development, social skills, sparks imagination, develops language and emotions and ...

There’s no denying that we are living in a highly technology-driven world. Screen devices are constantly available to us. We have experienced life before smartphones, tablets and video games were within arm’s reach, however, most of our children don’t know a life without screens. At Kids ...

In our ever busy worlds with competing demands and daily stressors, getting adequate sleep can be a challenge. Sleep is important for every one and for every part of the body, and it is especially important for young children as their bodies and minds develop. Children of all ages need to get enough ...

The Upstairs and Downstairs of the Brain: I love Dan Siegel’s analogy of a house to explore the upper and lower parts of the brain, it is also a great way to explain it to children. THE DOWNSTAIRS BRAIN The downstairs brain, often referred to as the reptilian or primitive brain, ...

Homework time is hard. Kids are tired, parents have a thousand things to arrange and oversee, and insisting that homework is done often starts a meltdown. Kids with low muscle tone, difficulty with handwriting, concentration difficulties and learning delays especially have trouble getting it ...