Although many primary/elementary schools moved fairly quickly to online learning at home utilizing online tools like zoom and google classroom due to…
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Taking Homework Outdoors – Sight Word Play
We have entered the world of sight words! My 5 year old twins have recently started their first year at…
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Process V Product in Early Learning – Can we find a balance?
Every year in the early childhood field you can be sure that you will come across the process versus product…
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Stress & Anxiety in the Early Childhood Profession.
Being an early childhood educator is a rewarding role but take it from me – you really need to be…
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Social & Emotional Skills – Strategies and Activities for Teachers
Children can have a difficult time understanding their emotions and the way certain events make them feel in the early…
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How to become an assertive early years educator.
Being an assertive educator is not an easy task for many but it can be a learned skill and one…
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Choosing a Family Daycare Scheme – what do you need to consider?
Unfortunately in Australia at the moment our Government continues to strip important funding from the Family Day Care sector which…
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Working from home with kids – What they don’t tell you!
Being able to stay home and combine parenting with paid work is a dream for many parents I know –…
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Home Based Early Childhood Services – The real story.
This is a departure from the usual type of posts I write but it’s a topic I feel really strongly…
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The Healthy Me Challenge – Week 2
Welcome to Week 2 of my Healthy Me Challenge. How did you go? Are you on the way to a…
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I’m an early childhood educator so why don’t I look after my own children everyday?
As I walked in the gate of my twins preschool the other morning I was wearing my own family…
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10 Reasons why I’m NOT sending my twins to school yet….
As the end of the year speeds towards us I seem to be answering the same question over and over…
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