This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read the full disclosure. Many of the greatest education philosophers such as Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf schools) were great supporters of open ended play. They believed that children learn better when they are given greater freedom and autonomy and when they are allowed to explore […]
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When parental behavior has a negative impact on child development
Our parenting strategies influence our children’s outcomes in so many ways: they can build or destroy their self-esteem, transform them into independent or dependent beings, and make them learn to see mistakes as proof of their failure or, on the contrary, as a normal learning process. Nobody needs convincing that parenting styles influence children’s behavior […]
Best books for 1 year old toddlers
This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read the full disclosure. There will always be books that can take you beyond your wildest imagination. Books you remember more than others. Books that touch you in ways that no other book has. I’ve been lucky to read many of those. One book that still makes […]
Gross motor skills in infants
This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read the full disclosure. Gross motor skills in infants refers to the skills that allow your child to use their large muscles groups. These are the skills that enable them to undertake activities such as crawling and walking and as they grow older, skipping, running, balancing, throwing, […]
Science says that these five things increase your chances of maternal exhaustion
Maternal exhaustion is still a somewhat taboo subject. Parents struggling with exhaustion, fear, shame, stress, anxiety and low energy levels rarely express themselves for fear of being judged as incapable, incompetent or “not good enough” parents. Yet more and more parents, and especially mothers, are suffering from maternal exhaustion. When parents are exhausted, everyone suffers. […]