Is travelling with young kids by plane a daunting prospect for you?
I often hear parents reminiscing about when they took their children on holiday and had a terrible time with screaming tantrums etc. Spending hours in an airplane can be a daunting experience for children and here are some tips that will help you prepare for your journey.
I am regularly asked by parents in the child care centres that I work about toilet training and when is a good time to commence it.
This is an excellent question and is of course an individual thing depending on your child. In my experience, doing it too early can be too much for the child and the best time to start is around 2 - 2 1/2 years of age.
It is important to make it fun and not force your child to go and here are some tips that will help from my experience.
Do you often face a struggle getting your children to willingly go to bed?
It is obvious that they’re tired and ready for sleep but no matter what you try, they refuse to go quietly! In my experience, for many parents this becomes a daily ritual that they dread with the only solution being to carry them to bed screaming!
Let’s face it, they are not in the space to reason with or listen to you.
Although I have no children of my own, I work with children daily in a childcare setting and can empathise with the “more, more, more” pressures that parents/carers must feel from the influences of television and advertising.
With the Western world’s current financial woes, these are hard times for many and it must be hard to avoid the temptation to buy everything that your child desires when their friends have it.
My advice is to teach your children to value what they have and here are a few pointers that I learnt as a child which worked for me that I value greatly.
A few weeks ago I noticed a full page advertisement in our city’s newspaper titled “YOUR BABY CAN READ” which as a childcare worker got my attention. 
When I began to read this I was shocked at the notion that this was encouraging children to learn to read when they are as young as just 9 months. I know that there are prodigies out there but isn’t this going a bit too far!
