Connect, Grow and Learn

23/12/2025

Yes yes yes!!!

The Importance of Bare Feet

https://www.maggiedent.com/blog/importance-bare-feet/

02/12/2025

This is why there needs to be more awareness of the impact of trauma on children. Misdiagnosis helps no one

In this workshop we will examine how similarities between both trauma and ADHD can often lead to misdiagnoses.

03/11/2025

A cute way to start the day

03/11/2025

If you read to your child daily it also promotes bonding and connection, while increasing their exposure to language, grammar and print. Libraries are your best friend or VINNIES Book Fests if you want to buy them. I used to take my boys and give them $10 to spend and we would come home with a bag each of books they were interested in. Happy reading!!!

You may have heard of ‘the million-word gap’. It is the idea that if you read five picture books a day to a young child, they will enter kindergarten with exposure to about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to.

Let’s extrapolate that out. What if you keep reading to kids for years after kindergarten? What if they read a book a fortnight themselves in primary school? A novel a month in high school?

It won’t just be words they learn. They will develop comprehension skills, internalise grammar, learn new facts, and explore new ideas.

They will visit other worlds in their imaginations and learn that other people live different lives but may feel the same way they do.

All that reading will help your child build a better brain and a warmer heart. ♥️

26/10/2025

01/10/2025

Scary stuff

10/09/2025

08/09/2025

Childhood is such a short period of time, embrace the play and allow your children to explore their world.

We do children a disservice when we reduce early childhood to colors, numbers, shapes, and letters. These concepts will come, but when we fixate on them too early or too narrowly, we risk turning learning into pressure, rote drills, and forced lessons that dampen curiosity. Instead of opening children up to the joy of discovery, this approach can make learning feel like a performance or a checklist to get through.

What often gets overlooked are the skills that matter most for long-term cognition: problem-solving, persistence, self-regulation, creativity, language, and the ability to connect ideas across experiences. These are the foundations that make colors, numbers, shapes, and letters meaningful later on. When early childhood is reduced to surface-level academics, we rob children of the chance to build the deeper capacities that allow true learning to stick.

Early childhood is about so much more. It is about building the brain through play, strengthening the body through movement, wiring for empathy and regulation through relationships, and developing a love of learning that lasts far beyond preschool. When we allow concepts like numbers, letters, shapes, and colors to be discovered in meaningful, everyday contexts, children connect with them naturally and deeply.

04/09/2025

This is very cool!

28/08/2025

The first three years are crucial in child development

27/08/2025

27/08/2025