Educational TV for Toddlers
Guidelines recommend that children under 2 watch no TV at all and toddlers watch no more than 2 hours of TV a day, but how realistic is this really? I personally don’t think there is anything wrong...
View ArticleHow Ferber’s “Progressive Wait” approach helped our children sleep better
Before Monkey was born, whenever any friends were having troubles getting their little ones to sleep and they mentioned leaving them to cry themselves to sleep, I thought it seemed like a pretty...
View ArticleLearning to read at nearly 3
Monkey loves books, he has done for a long time. We read multiple times a day and he has so many books he adores. He knows all of his letters now, and can recognise them all. He sings the alphabet …...
View ArticlePotty Training at Age 3
Conventional wisdom seems to be that when it comes to potty training you should wait until your child is ‘ready’ to do it. Yet despite this I think a lot of us still feel under immense pressure to do...
View ArticleLearning to draw at 15mths and 3 3/4
My word of the week this week has to be drawing, as both kiddies are making leaps and bounds with their drawing abilities at the moment. LM has well and truly discovered drawing now and would love to...
View ArticleTechnology and parenting
I’ve written before about how I think technology has changed the way we parent but I have been thinking about it a lot again lately. We’ve been watching the series Back in Time for the weekend which...
View ArticleIce Excavating with Monkey, age 4
Like many children his age, Monkey is constantly on the go and really interested in the world around him. The questions are endless and I am always trying to find new fun things to do with him, that he...
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