Travelling mums can join the Smile High Club this summer

By: Jacqueline Scott - Director, KissKiss HugHug
With the holiday season fast approaching, many mum’s across Australia will be starting to worry about what to take away on holidays - from packing for a long haul flight to breastfeeding in foreign countries, your first trip away with your baby can be stressful.
Things to consider:
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Single Parenting

By: Kathie Holmes
Despite our best intentions, many of us become single parents at some point in our lives. For some of us it is by choice, for some it is out of necessity to escape an unacceptable situation and for some it is by misfortune due to the death of a spouse.
No matter [...]

Routine, Rules and Rituals…

By: Ruth
powell

The three "R’s"! Routine, Rules and Rituals… I am sitting
here thinking that each one of these "R’s" could be a whole
article unto itself - yet they compliment each other so well that I
think they all deserve to stay! I will break them down separately to
demonstrate how well they all support each other.
Routines [...]

Using Baby Sign Language with Toddlers

By: Jackie Durnin
How many parents currently have a toddler going through the "terrible two’s" and wonder is there something out there that could help?
Baby sign language could be the answer you are looking for.
Many parents ask me "Is it too late to introduce baby sign language to my toddler?" and I always say definitely [...]

Teaching your kids good organising habits

By: Rebecca
Mezzino
The way our brain is built dictates our natural level of "organisedness". Certain parts of our brains are responsible for logic, organised, sequential thought. For some of us, it’s the most dominant part of our brain. For others, it’s the opposite!
Most of my clients find that the dominant parts of their brain [...]

How to deal with tantrums

How to deal with tantrums
How to deal with
tantrums
By: Heny Hinchcliff

When a child has a tantrum it is often the result of frustrations or
as consequence of finding that, when he make a choice, he can’t have
it both ways.
Making a effort to be positive with toddler will
often pay off. This can be trying at times, when [...]

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS)
By: Cathryn
Curtin
Sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected death of a baby where
there is no apparent cause of death. The current rate of SIDS in Australia
is around one in every thousand births, or 250 babies each year. This
compares to about 500 babies lost to SIDS in 1990. [...]

Teaching your kids to swim: traditional lessons vs ‘do it yourself’

Teaching your kids to swim: traditional lessons vs ‘do it yourself’
Teaching your kids to swim:
traditional lessons vs ‘do it yourself’
Courtesy of: Uswim
Swimming for fun and safety:
Swimming is part of Australian culture. Many of our social activities somehow involve water, from going to the beach, [...]

Child Psychology: the Development of Self-Image

Child Psychology: the Development of Self-Image
Parenting
Article: Child Psychology: the development of self-image
By: Linda
Pollitt
As
children grow and develop, they gradually become conscious of their:

own name
place in the family
own home
age, and of growing up.

Each child forms a mental image of him or herself
and becomes aware that they are unlike [...]

School and Kindy in 2009 - all organised!

School and Kindy in 2009 - all organised!
School and Kindy in 2009 - all organised!
By: Rebecca
Mezzino

Each year most parents tell yourselves that this year will be the year that your child never goes to childcare, kindy or school with an unironed uniform on, eats breakfast in the car, arrives 5 minutes late every day, [...]