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25.01.2022 An interview with Dr. Susan David, author of "Emotional Agility". on raising emotionally agile children and how to develop those skills, good for both educators and parents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHSeCXm7DeE

25.01.2022 Nature provides many opportunities for learning and creative play at any age. D.I.Y Memory Leaf Cards Activity idea by @evokulu

24.01.2022 Naturally numerical.

22.01.2022 The struggle is real lol.

21.01.2022 Why curiosity and observing is better for our interactions with children and even adults, than judgmentalism. Noticing children is a powerful tool. It’s a nonjudgmental way to address actions, behavior, accomplishments, and choices. It encourages children to self-reflect, build healthy self-confidence, develop an independent sense of worth, and strive for internal validation. Here are some common situations in which noticing is effective, and examples of how to apply it. This might inspire you to take notice of the adults around you, too. After all, most of us like to feel seen.

20.01.2022 Originally coming from NZ and being raised where Maori culture is embedded right through your education it's good to see Aboriginal culture being embedded and promoted throughout this program all year round

20.01.2022 A cute little clean up song, I had a chuckle at "keep a smile upon your face". https://thesarahstorytime.blogspot.com//clean-up-song.html

19.01.2022 WATERCOLOUR NATURE PRINTS We love this technique and it’s an easy one to do with kids. Watercolour painting always looks lovely ... What You Need: Watercolour paints Thick paper or card Leaves/ flowers Paintbrush . Method: 1. Paint your piece of card with watercolour, making sure the paper is fairly wet. 2. Press in your leaves or flowers. Some things work better than others. These fern leaves printed particularly well with the veins facing downwards. 3. Re-paint over the leaves/flowers to ensure all parts are ‘stuck down’ to the paper. 4. Leave it to dry throughly before removing the leaves/flowers to reveal the print

18.01.2022 Another beautiful set up from Little sprouts family daycare. I C E C U B E P A I N T I N G We put water and food colouring in a silicone muffin tray to create the moulds then the children simply added a stick to create the handle and topped them off with fresh flowers and glitter to create spring inspired ice cube paintings

16.01.2022 Foster awareness to think for themselves.

16.01.2022 Lovely use of shadows for drawing.

15.01.2022 Revolutionary ideas to teach your family haha.

15.01.2022 Run out of activities? lol.

13.01.2022 How lovely is this A B U T T E R F L Y T E A P A R T Y

12.01.2022 All studies point to teaching children self-regulation as the most important skill for a successful life, to do this we have to start with ourselves and understanding and managing our own emotional reactivity to effectively teach and model self-regulation to our children. First step is we need to become comfortable with our own emotions to be able to help our children with theirs. (please note this is a video designed for people who wish to do life coaching as a profession the posting of this video is just for the points he is making only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBVpKUK2z4

10.01.2022 Collect leaves with the children and make some leaf window pictures.

08.01.2022 Love Susan David's book on Emotional Agility, she has a great chapter on how to raise emotionally agile children. https://www.amazon.com.au/Emotional-Agility-Un//1592409490 What can you do when your child is upset? Parenting with emotional agility is not just about expressing empathy for your child in the moment. It’s about modeling empathetic behavior regularly so your children can learn to do the same.

08.01.2022 All feelings are okay, it's how we express them that matters. Emotion coaching our children sets them up for success at school and in their relationships, Dr Susan David psychologist and author of "Emotional Agility", a good book on emotional agility for yourself and children, https://www.amazon.com.au/Emotional-Agility-Un//1592409490, offers four practical steps for helping a child go through, rather than around, a negative emotion and emerge ready to keep going FEEL IT,... SHOW IT, LABEL IT, WATCH IT GO. ( Full article https://www.nytimes.com//teaching-your-child-emotional-agi ). 1) FEEL IT. While it may seem obvious to feel emotions, many families focus on pushing away negative emotions. When we’re saying ‘don’t be sad, don’t be angry, don’t be jealous, don’t be selfish,’ we’re not coming to the child in the reality of her emotion, she said. Validate and see your child as a sentient person who has her own emotional world. 2) SHOW IT. Similarly, many families have what Dr. David calls display rules around emotions there are those it is acceptable to show, and those that must be hidden. We see expressions like ‘boys don’t cry’ and ‘we don’t do anger here,’ or ‘brush it off,’ she said. We do it with very good intentions, but we are teaching that emotions are to be feared. 3) LABEL IT. Labeling emotions, Dr. David said, is a critical skill set for children. We need to learn to recognize stress versus anger or disappointment, she said. Even very young children can consider whether they’re mad or sad, or angry or anxious or scared. Labeling emotions is also at the core of our ability to empathize. Ask ‘How do you think so-and-so is feeling? What does their face tell you?’ 4) WATCH IT GO. Even the hardest emotions don’t last forever. Dr. David suggests helping your child to notice that. Sadness, anger, frustration these things have value, but they also pass. They’re transient, and we are bigger than they are. Say, ‘This is what sadness feels like. This is what it feels like after it passes. This is what I did that helped it pass.’ A lovely free printable for teachers and parents "All Feelings are for Everyone" by Elise Gravel.

08.01.2022 Some lovely loose parts set ups here.

08.01.2022 Most of us struggle with toddler tantrums, Janet Lansbury offers lots of good tips and insights, worth checking her article out that provides a real life example of a parent handling their child's anger.

06.01.2022 Following on from previous posts, as previously said, teaching children "self-control" is one of the biggest indicators of later success in life, here is a good article on how to teach those skills both at home or in the early childhood setting. https://www.parentingscience.com/teaching-self-control.html

06.01.2022 It's hard not to have a chuckle when it's the end of the world for your kids. Parents sharing all the hilariously absurd reasons why their kids cry

06.01.2022 Reframing our requests.

05.01.2022 Instead of an easel for painting, turn a table upside down, wrap cling film around the legs to provide a different experience and surface to paint on. You can also use this art experience to teach observational skills, place items in the middle e.g. a vase of flowers and encourage children to observe through the film the shapes of the item to paint. Not only can you use cling film around table legs you can also go outside and wrap it around two posts or two trees, and instea...d of cling wrap you can tie a clear shower curtain between the posts or trees instead, children can stand behind the curtain and they can paint each other, or paint the trees they can see through the curtain or just paint free form and stick leaves and nature to the paint. Other surfaces you can use to encourage observational skills, are mirrors, take a mirror outside place on a table, place under trees where the leaves and the sky can be observed and encourage children to paint the forms and colours they see in the mirror. See more

04.01.2022 And there's more, lovely cardboard cut out ideas to create with nature.

03.01.2022 Gotta have a sense humour about these things haha.