What are the ways in which we can engage with the world? Touch, sound, sight, smell and taste, otherwise known as the five senses. This sensorial engagement is extremely high among toddlers who constantly use their senses to receive, absorb and understand the world. Not only children, but even adults learn better when all their […]
Play these 4 games to make your kid smarter
Introduction A child’s brain needs more stimulation than an adult’s. It’s like a sponge, eager to soak up everything and anything. Age-appropriate games help stimulate a tot’s mind and smarten their overall approach towards life from a very young age. This is why even the pre-school that you choose for your child’s first steps towards […]
Activities to keep your kids engaged during long periods at home
Practically every parent on earth is struggling today with the same question: How do I keep my kids engaged indoors during this prolonged lockdown? To put things in perspective, even before the lockdown, children were spending quite an amount of time indoors. But what they are missing now are: (a) learning and education, (b) social […]
Tips on how to balance work and kids when at home
Loving means caring—you must have heard that often. But caring takes a lot of organising. And the only way you will be able to strike a balance between your work and kids—especially when you are working from home—is by being well organised. Here are some tips on how you can achieve that elusive balance: Set […]
6 Simple Tricks to Teach Your Toddler Colours and Shapes
Children are naturally curious beings. They go about the world soaking in different sights, sounds, and smells. They have their own ways and means of absorbing stimulus from the environment and remembering what they observed. Watching your child go about making a sense of the world can be a beautiful and thrilling experience. Why not […]
How to Get Your Kid to Eat Healthy
Kids can be picky eaters. In fact, many a time they are. Their taste buds need satisfaction each time they put something on their tongue. Result? Easy addiction to junk food, full of addictive flavours and unhealthy elements. A preference for fast food, that is low on nutrition, is a mass epidemic among kids. How […]
5 Tips To Inculcate a Good Sense of Hygiene from Early Childhood
“Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may, in fact, be the foundation of civilisation: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?” – Rose George, journalist and author How important is personal hygiene? Well, […]
Early Childhood Learning and Advantage of Pre-schools
Early childhood is the age at which almost the entire foundation of future learning, growth, development and conditioning is laid. It’s the time when base fundamentals of your child’s cognitive, emotional and psycho-social behaviour develop. It is therefore easy to understand why this is the phase in which your child needs to be nurtured most […]
Moody Toddlers? No Problem! Here’s How to Take Care of Them
Toddlers can be unpredictable. They often act and react in a manner which we can scarcely comprehend. However, their moodiness is understandable. They have a mammoth task of interpreting and comprehending a vast, unknown and overwhelming world that they have been put in the centre of. The result is confusion, which is reflected in their […]
Childhood Fears and Phobias – How to Deal with Them?
In early childhood children can display a fear of many things. This fear can take on different forms, but it’s especially a fear of the unknown that children find overwhelming. This may include fear of darkness, big animals, loud sounds and separation from parents. Such fears and phobias are normal and to an extent may […]