The Social Child

Volunteering with Children: One Family’s Story

June 1, 2011
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I am a long time visitor to Amy’s blog, Flexible Dreams, and a post she wrote over a year ago now (yikes, where did that time go?) recounting a conversation with her young children about homelessness has stayed with me. Since then, Amy, her husband and children (aged 6 and 4) have been involved in [...]

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No One Will Play With Me – Helping Your Child Make Friends

May 25, 2011
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This post is by regular contributor Kate Fairlie of Picklebums. My usually bright, feisty, full of life, three year old boy was sullen, withdrawn and sad and it took me the better part of a week to figure out why he suddenly didn’t want to go to preschool any more. “No one will play with [...]

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Friendship: Helping Children Learn to Be Inclusive

May 20, 2011
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At a very young age children begin to notice difference. I remember one time when Immy was about 18 months old and we were walking through a shopping centre and she stopped and stared as a very tall man of (I believe) African descent. I think she stopped as she had never before seen a [...]

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Friendship: Revisiting a Bully Free Zone

May 14, 2011
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I thought Friendship Month would be a good time to revisit the series of posts on bullying from early last year. Contributed by guest poster, Amanda Gray of Learn2 Be Buddies, the series focused on what we can do as parents and educators to stop bullying in its tracks before it even begins through strategies [...]

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Friendship: Developing Sharing Behaviour

May 12, 2011
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Consider the following two sharing scenarios; 1. A child is playing with a toy. Another child sees and wants the toy too. An adult intervenes, saying to the first child, “Billy, you can have a turn for two minutes and then we will let Abbie have a turn.” The adults waits with the children and [...]

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Friendship: Children Developing Empathy

May 5, 2011
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May is Friendship month at Childhood 101. You will see a range of posts by both myself and the regular contributors about friendship as it applies to our children and our own experiences as Mums. Today I would like to begin a short series about children’s social development with a post about empathy. Definition: em·pa·thy [...]

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Mum 2 Mum: Digital Dinner???

February 4, 2011
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What is Mum 2 Mum? I have made many good friends online and often wish that I could sit down with them for a cuppa and chat like I do with my real life friends; other Mums with good advice, interesting stories to share, laughs to be had and experiences to learn from.  Mum 2 [...]

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Ripples: A Child in the World

November 1, 2010
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Thinking of a young child discovering their place in the world reminds me of ripples spreading out from a stone dropped into water. There is much we can do as parents and teachers to support our children as they grow to find a secure place for themselves within each of these ripples. Some initial thoughts… [...]

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