Welcome to this week’s blog from Lifestart. I don’t know about you but the months are flying by. I can’t believe we are in the middle of the year with the school year coming to an end in 3 weeks. I’m in the middle of arranging outings or summer schemes for [...]
If you think back to when you were a young child growing up, did you think there was one brother or sister you thought your Mum or Dad favoured the most? Got away with everything? While you got away with nothing! For the majority of people, the answer is YES! If [...]
As it is mental health awareness week, I am going to take the opportunity to explore the power of a positive attitude and introduce you to your locus of control. First let’s talk about a positive attitude, which often depends on our attitude towards life in general. So what are the [...]
If you ask a young child who is the most important person in their world they will mostly say one of their parents! Parents sometimes don’t give themselves enough credit for how important their role is in their child’s life. Statistics show children spend 85% of their time at home with [...]
Sometime between one and three years of age, your child may develop a special attachment to a blanket, teddy bear, or other cuddly objects. About 60% of toddlers in Western society develop such an attachment. By one year a child’s sense of self is beginning to develop. She is now old [...]
The clocks have just sprung forward, there’s a stretch in the evening and we are beginning to get an occasional glimpse of a strange yellow ball in the sky. We have all been stuck indoors long enough. It is the perfect time to go out and enjoy that great fresh air [...]
By the ninth month, feeding time is becoming a great time for your baby to learn to feed themselves. Since your baby is interested in spoons and cups, give them extra ones to bang with while you feed him or her with another spoon. If you are anything like me you [...]
Young children are being raised in a digital world with access to phones, tablets and other internet-connected devices available from a very early age. Most children’s first experience of the digital world will include tapping screens or swiping on phones as babies or toddlers; whilst we look on in amazement at [...]
We all experience emotional up and downs from time to time, throw in family life, work commitments and a pandemic, then it can change from one minute to the next. It is difficult to understand why we feel the way we do at times, and if this is true of us [...]
In your child’s early years they gradually develop a sense of who they are and what they can become. And in this process it is quite common for them to experience feelings of jealousy towards other children. A very common form of jealousy is 'sibling rivalry', which for any of you [...]
