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Baby Motor Skills Lessons Learnt Journal

Baby: Motor Skills

By Pauline On July 30, 2012 · 17 Comments · In Activities for Children, Baby, Best Of Lessons Learnt Journal, Creative Play, Fine Motor Skills, Play
  Baby Motor Skills   I once caught a snippet of a documentary presenting the remarkable fact that healthy babies of all cultures achieve the same milestones in the same consistent sequence at roughly about the same time. Baby motor skills progress in a consistent manner, regardless of culture.   Having had four babies within the [...]
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Baby Play (3-6 months)

By Pauline On May 7, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Activities for Children, Baby, Creative Play, Play
Miss K is no longer a passive newborn. She doesn’t always fall asleep after a feed or just wake famished for a feed. She has longer periods of alertness. Having just had three babies before K, you would think I would remember easily what I did with each of my children when they were at [...]
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Free Play for Children: Take the Bubble Wrap Off

By Pauline On September 3, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Activities for Children, Baby, Creative Play, Outdoors, Play, Pre school, Toddler Activities
  Our children need free play.   I will confess that I have the tendency to swap my children’s free play with more structured activities. Thank goodness for my limited financial resources and my children’s strong inclination towards free play, (and strong will to match), to curb my “Tiger Mum” appetite.     This important [...]
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Kids in Motion: Bounce, Spin and Flip for Mental Growth

By Pauline On August 18, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Activities for Children, Baby, Creative Play, Outdoors, Play, Pre school, Toddler Activities
  Fists clench. “That’s mine!” My child just declared war over a prized toy.   Dad steps in and deploys a tried and tested distraction tactic. Our child is picked up, thrown gently into the air, spun around and flipped upside down to finish.   Laughter rings through the air. “More! More!”   There’s a [...]
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