July 2009

A Yummy Kid Friendly Recipe: Apricot-Coconut Balls

July 31, 2009

Following the success of last weeks recipe for Curried Chicken Wings, I thought I might share a new recipe each week. Each recipe featured at Childhood 101 has been tried and tested on many, many children in the child care centre I ran for five years. So here is the recipe for the REALLY, REALLY, [...]

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Library Hit of the Week!

July 30, 2009

I cannot believe that Immy’s favourite read this week was published before I was born. Isn’t it amazing that a children’s book can stay so relevant, fun and engaging 38 years after its publication. For those who don’t know Titch by Pat Hutchins, this simple story told with few words and no-frills illustrations, shares the [...]

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Taking the Lead

July 30, 2009

Immy and I headed out for our regular neighbourhood walk this afternoon in beautiful, warm sunshine, under a clear blue sky (who would know that it is the middle of Winter). I haven’t been using the harness as much lately as she is pretty good at staying on the footpath, she lets me carry her [...]

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And so to sleep…

July 29, 2009

Did you know that Amazon.com currently lists 22,004 sleep related titles in their Parenting & Families book category? That is insane and clearly a cleverly orchestrated response by book publishers to our current obsession with our children’s sleep. I believe there is no magic formula for sleep, no miraculous routine that will solve every sleep [...]

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Emergent Curriculum: What happens when you follow a child’s interest?

July 28, 2009

In my last EC post, I promised to share a story about the difference exploring a child’s interest can make to the learning potential of the child. This is the story of 2 1/2 year old Henry. Henry wasn’t one of those children who stood out from the crowd. He wasn’t loud or overly talkative. [...]

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A Weaning Failure

July 27, 2009

I tried. I really did. Despite my tears. But I failed. I previously shared our intention to wean Immy from her midday breastfeed as my DH was on holidays and could help me settle her at sleep time without the feeding part of her routine. I knew it would be a hard task but I [...]

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Emergent Curriculum: Following Children’s Interests

July 25, 2009

Within an Emergent Curriculum educators use ‘interests’ of the children, families, community and themselves as the substance of the learning program. ‘Interests’ are subjects, ideas, things, topics and events which fascinate and stimulate the curiosity of the child. Chosen interests are then developed through ‘projects’ or ‘investigations’ – related fun and interesting, hands-on learning experiences [...]

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

July 24, 2009

Immy loves our vegetable garden. I am not sure if I can call it a vegetable ‘garden’ as it is really vegetables planted all around the regular garden. You see, we are currently renting a home and so we have had to plant our vegetables in spaces in the existing garden beds (between the existing [...]

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