To mark British Science Week, N (3) and I have been busy trying out some brilliant STEM products from one of our favourite brands – Learning Resources. She has been exploring with a toddler friendly first microscope, and trying out some of her very first experiments!
Playing with your child helps with their confidence, development and overall wellbeing. Many parents make the mistake of trying to take the control of how their child plays. However, you should let them experiment with unstructured play, which allows them to go at their own pace and usually revolves around their interests at that moment.
The desire to play starts at toddler age, all the way through to early adulthood, however, babies, toddlers and young children have the instinct to play, which should initially be shaped by parents. As they move through the different phases of their life, the way they choose to play will change. Not all children find it easy to play.
Here’s how you can help your child’s development through play during the different stages of infancy:
If you contemplate getting views from different parents on the most significant challenge about their kid’s bedroom, they will state keeping the room organized and creating extra space.
It is normal for kids to create a mess; very few are born natural organizers. With unending supplies of children’s toys, clothing, school supplies, etc., you must maximize the little space available to fit the children’s belongings.
Here are five ways you can create extra space in your kid’s bedroom.
1. Use the Space Under the Bed
It is common knowledge that you can store stuff under the bed. However, you must make sure that you don’t throw things haphazardly as this will make it difficult to find items when you need them.
You can have 1 or 2 huge clear plastic boxes, bags, cubbies, baskets placed under the bed. In the boxes, you can keep extra bedding, seasonal outfits, sporting equipment, and your child’s artwork.
Alternatively, you can opt for beds with drawers to keep the bedroom better organized and create more space.
BABY Born have launched a new range of collectable dolls, each with 10 different surprises to discover. We already have the larger BABY Born Surprise Bath time doll, which was a big hit with my 3 year old daughter N, so we were excited to try out the new collectables, which share some of the same features.
There are 12 new dolls available in this wave of the Series 3 BABY Born Surprise doll collectables, and they each come in a little pod as you can see above, which needs to be opened and unwrapped to reveal the doll and all of the surprises – a total of 10 surprises to discover per doll.
The first thing you’ll see when you unwrap each doll, is your BABY Born surprise wrapped in one of 12 different cute character swaddles. We have the cactus, flamingo and mermaid ones which are all really unique.
You will find a sheet inside which shows you all of the styles that are available to collect, and allows you to tick them off, keeping track of your collection.
Century A New World game by Emerson Matsuuchi is the third and final game in the Century game series (the previous ones being Century Spice Road, and Century Eastern Wonders) This new Century A New World game is set in The Americas in the early 16th Century, and can be combined with the other two Century games if you have them.
This was our first time playing any of the Century games, and we were sent this game to try out as part of the Asmodee Blogger Board Game Club.
(AD) Nickelodeon Adventure at Intu Lakeside is a new indoor play venue for kids. We went along to the opening day to try it out, with our children aged 3, 8 and 10 to find out what’s inside.
Nickelodeon Adventure is made up of six zones, with different activities to explore and character to meet. All of these are spacious so you don’t feel crowded together, and there is plenty of room for the kids to run around.
As you first enter, you come to the Paw Patrol Adventure Bay zone. This area includes replicas of the Paw Patrol vehicles that kids can climb into and play pretend, and it also includes the control tower with slide. You will see Paw Patrol characters doing meet and greets here too, sometimes as individual characters and sometimes as a group. Depending how busy it is when you visit, there may be queues for this. However, when we visited the queues were not bad and it was well managed.
We may still be in the winter months, but now is the best time to start planning your garden. Knowing what you want to achieve with your outdoor space for your little ones’ benefit can be planned now and then implemented as soon as the weather improves and spring approaches! Here are some steps every parent with a garden should consider taking!
Making Your Garden Safe
Of course, the first step you’re going to have to make is ensuring your garden is a safe space for your little ones to spend time in. You need to supervise your children all the time while they are outdoors, but there’s plenty of room for accidents to happen if you aren’t careful when it comes to maintaining the space. Here are a few steps you should keep at the forefront of your priorities.
Securing the Perimeters
We tend to take our fine health for granted in today’s world – so much so that we feel unable to really assess how and why we’re led to illness and poor health – often through our own negligence or ignorance.
As such, this article aims to inform readers as to the ways in which you can protect your health in a more effective manner in the weeks and months to come, enabling you to understand how to best protect your most valuable asset on this earth.
Eat, Drink and Exercise Well
There cannot be any real substitute for these three key elements to any one person’s lifestyle. If you’re not eating and drinking well, and you’re not keeping an eye on your fitness, you cannot claim to be doing anywhere near what you have in your power to do to remain healthy. The trick here is to make a routine, and stick to it – and to avoid indulging in damaging habits.
Health is a lifelong, well-developed part of your routine, and something that you need to try to work on every single week if you’re to live a long, healthy and prosperous life. Without good health, you’ll descend into depression, you’ll be unable to move well, and you’ll gain weight quickly. So, control these three things: your food, your drink, and your exercise. This will keep your health impressive and stable throughout your life.
Entertaining children is one of the toughest tasks. In order to maintain their full attention, they have to be mentally and physically engaged, but the task can’t be too challenging from the get-go. Initiating entertainment and maintaining entertainment is a challenge, no doubt, but it can be done.
In a time where instant gratification is the norm, many children indulge in screen time as their main source of information. TV, movies, tablets, and video games provide entertainment, but little more.
Enter card games. These might seem vintage to some, but a simple, two-player card game has just the right balance of physical and mental engagement, while challenging children enough to keep them involved.
If you’d like to switch out screens for a deck of cards, keep reading. I’ve got a few of the most loved card games that will keep kids entertained, no screens attached.
Parenting is a tough job. You will find yourself exhausted after a hard day’s work only to come home to your loved ones who can’t wait to play with you, tell you what they did that day and cuddle. Kids can be tough to manage but they can also inspire you to find that last ounce of energy somewhere in you and spend it with them. They can make you laugh in an instant and lift your mood momentarily if you had a bad day. It’s a fact that kids demand time and you have to spend some with them before spending some with yourself, and you can do this through several activities.
A Trip to the Park
The park is a great place to take your kids to. It can be a regular walk that doesn’t last more than 15-20 minutes. Short walks will give them a change of scenery and in the park, they’re free to explore anything they want. The park is the place where you can bond with your child by asking them how their day went and what they did. If you’re going to the park in winter on a snowy day then you and your children can make a snowman, snow angels and have other fun activities in the snow.