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Getting Started With Childcare
The key to making child care work is doing what suits you and your child. Here are some ideas to help you start planning your childcare choices.
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Developing Literacy
Literacy is most commonly understood as reading and writing. But before children can read and write, they need to learn about sounds, words, language, books and stories.
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Grandparents Raising Kids
The rewards challenges of parenting the second time around.
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Ways to Encourage Good Toddler Behaviour
Here are our top tips on ways to encourage good toddler behaviour!
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First Sounds
When babies start talking, they tend to have a rapt audience: there’s nothing funnier or more adorable than a baby learning how to make her first sounds.
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How to Choose the Perfect Toys
Toys and games for kids – how do you know what’s best? Finding toys that your child will enjoy and learn from is about understanding which play ideas suit which age. It doesn’t matter whether the toys are hand-made, pre-loved, ‘educational’ or expensive.
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The Toddler Tantrum
The classic scenario of the toddler tantrum. I’m sure we’ve all seen it... The screaming child, the frazzled parent, the disgruntled plane passengers or supermarket shoppers. Here are a few tips to try next time your wee one refuses to co-operate.
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How to Help Kids Stop Wetting the Bed
Nocturnal enuresis, the medical term for night-time bed-wetting, is actually more common among school-age kids than you might think. While many children are able to hold their urine all night by age 5, up to one in eight first- and second-graders are still dealing with this embarrassing condition.
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Swimming with your Baby
Getting your baby used to water early is important from a safety point of view and it's great fun too.
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What Your Toddler Is Trying to Say to You
Learn to communicate better by understanding your toddler