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5 Restaurant-Sky Bar combos For Valentines Day 2015 in Bangkok.
Too early? Not if you want to reserve that perfect table it isn’t. Valentines day is one of those days of the year where parents should make efforts to arrange a babysitter, nanny or grandparents to look after the little ones and give themselves a well deserved evening off. Remember last year when you left…
5 Great Gadgets To Get Your Baby Off To Sleep
Following our post about sleep depravation in toddlers we have put together our top 5 gadgets for helping your little one get off to sleep quickly and help you keep to your child’s all so important sleeping routine. 1.Watch Over Me Dream Station A high-tech mobile that features an intelligent cycle of phases based…
Sleep Deprivation in Children: Does My Child Need More Rest ?
Do you have difficulty waking your child in the morning? Are they hyperactive during the day? Do they struggle to focus on activities? Increased appetite? Defiant behaviour? Tantrums? It could be that what you thought were normal traits of your child, are actually symptoms of sleep deprivation. It is now thought that obesity is linked to…
DIY magic boards
For this activity we made our own magic boards. The children could trace letters, make shapes or even just use them for sensory play. Simply add paint to a Ziploc bag and off you go. British Early Years Centre is a British International Kindergarten School in Bangkok
Jigsaw faces
In this activity the children are given their faces cut into strips. They must rearrange their strips to see their faces. This activity can also be used to help the children to recognise other important people in their lives. The activity is easily differentiated by using different amounts of strips or by cutting horizontally as well…
Playdough Balls
It is easy to make this activity easier or harder depending on the age of your child. Roll the playdough into strips to make it easier to mould or use clay for older children. Use different shapes and different sizes. You can also practice vocabulary for shapes and even colours if you use other playdough colours.…
Dried fruit: Glorified candy?
Dried fruit is an easy portable snack, perfect for any lunchbox but there are a few things that you might want to know first. Dried fruit is only a quarter of the size of fresh fruit and while this means you only need to eat a smaller sized portion to get the same nutritional benefits,…
Teaching Children to Write
Just as with reading, the most important thing to bare in mind when teaching writing to children is that at no point along the way, should a child experience any negative feelings. It should always be slightly challenging and it most definitely needs to be fun and enjoyable for them. At every stage. This is…
Underestimating your child
Wherever I look these days I see articles and commentators making a big thing about not pushing children and that they should be free to enjoy their childhood rather than being thrown into formal learning. I couldn’t agree more, however, it is a shame that so many of these arguments and articles are so narrow…