Parent Tips

Play is an important part of child development which goes beyond working toward age-appropriate skills. Through engaging children in play in early years, children bond with their caregiver.

Sometimes it’s not easy to get children to try new food, especially for children with special educational needs. Some children are sensitive to certain kinds of texture and smell, or items that are new to them.

It is a well-known fact that talking to your child and exposing them to many different words helps them develop their language skills. However, this is not the be-all and end-all.

Music not only brings joy to children, it also benefits children’s cognitive development. Music can then be used to motivate children to engage in learning activities.

Emotion regulation is the ability to control one’s emotion so that the response to the environment is socially appropriate.

The idea is to supplement your verbal messages to your child by using an additional way to communicate.

It is important that children are exposed to a variety of fine-motor activities to help develop good hand strength.

Children build on their strengths and work on their weaknesses. This is one of the most important things to keep in mind when we are with the children.

Bubbles and rubber ducks are bath time favourites. Did you know that you could use these and many other toys to work on language?

Behaviours can be viewed as communication. There are reasons why children act the way they do, same goes for tantrums and misbehaviours.