How to help toddlers and preschoolers manage tantrums and meltdowns

We’ve all been there, waiting patiently on the sidelines while our child falls to pieces getting ready, leaving the supermarket or receiving the wrong snack. Tantrums and meltdowns can catch you by surprise and look different depending on the day…. Continue Reading >

Educating Toddlers and Preschoolers about Nature and Gardening

Starting a backyard garden is a great way to teach toddlers and preschoolers about nature. Through gardening, they also learn valuable life skills like responsibility, cooperation, patience and creativity. Too much screen time is becoming a big problem for many… Continue Reading >

Getting Ready for Kindy

It’s that nerve racking time for many parents. The end of the holidays and start of a brand new year. Such a bittersweet time isn’t it? Getting children ‘ready’ for their first day of formal schooling is a topic that… Continue Reading >

Ways to Help out the Grandparents who Help with Regular Childcare

  Written by Alice Zsembery The coming of a New Year for parents of preschoolers signifies many things; a start (or new room) at childcare, negotiation of days at work and/or juggling kinder hours. For so many of us, this… Continue Reading >