There have been many reports over the last few years about the negative aspects of children watching TV. Indeed, a recent study from Michigan and Montreal universities found negative effects on older children rose with every hour of toddler TV. But is TV always such a bad idea? Toddlers and TV The study, part of ...
Oh s**t! Most mums and dads will, at one time or another, have been there. There you are, entertaining at home, everyone sitting around passing the tea and muffins. All lovely, lovely. Then little Jenny drops her toy on her toe. Instead of the usual wailing – and probably in an attempt to seem unruffled ...
Studies dating back as far as the early 1940s have shown that a child’s IQ can be increased by more than 50 points by using the proper stimulation techniques in the first six years of the child’s life. A head start through play A child’s early years – the first three in particular – are ...
‘I could draw like Raphael before, but it took all my effort to teach myself to draw like a child’, wrote Picasso. We’ve all become accustomed to our children’s drawings appearing home from school, a large blue blob in the centre of the page (Daddy) and a smaller pink blob to the right with a ...
