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8 Jun · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
How to Support your Child’s Speech and Language Development in their Early Education
How to Support your Child’s Speech and Language Development in their Early Education Children start learning to communicate from birth, considerably earlier than some parents may think. So you can be sure that even before children start trying to communicate verbally, they already understand a whole lot about their world and the language used around …
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8 Jun · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
Recipe of the Month – Pinwheel Sandwiches
Pinwheel Sandwiches Recipe Getting kids to eat anything that is not super processed and sugary can sometimes seem impossible. At The Brook Early Education and Care, our secret to get children eating, or at least trying, natural healthy foods is by either sneaking it into their diet, or presenting it in fun and unique ways. …
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17 May · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
5 Tips for Defusing a Temper Tantrum
5 Helpful Tips for Defusing Your Kid’s Temper Tantrums Temper tantrums are an unfortunate (but unavoidable) aspect of raising children, particularly those aged 1-4. Why? Because children of these ages haven’t yet learned how to manage their emotions. Why Do Kids Have Tantrums? Children between 1 and 2 tend to have tantrums when …
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10 May · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
The Importance of Learning a New Language as a Child
The Importance of Learning a New Language as a Child In the past, early educators and parents would recommend against having a child be exposed to more than one language until they fully developed their language skills, as they believed the different languages would confuse the child and delay their development. Nowadays, this subject …
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Sneaking Veggies into Children’s Favourite Foods
2 Delicious Ways to Sneak Veggies Into Kids’ Fave Foods Children are often fussy eaters, and some will even pick out grated and diced veggies from pie fillings and pasta sauce, which makes maintaining their diets healthy a headache. As a parent, you want to make sure your child is getting the right nutrition, and …
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10 May · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
DIY Project: How to Make Personalised Wrapping Paper
How to Make Personalised Wrapping Paper Once your kid hits school age, or once they start attending an early education centre, their social lives skyrocket. There are birthday parties more often than you can keep up with, and so, most parents just keep a stack of age appropriate gifts hidden away for times of emergency. …
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10 May · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
The Benefits of Yoga for Children
The Amazing Benefits of Yoga For Children The early years of a child’s life are extremely important for their emotional, cognitive, and physical development, and will have a significant impact on the adult they will become. Having your child participate in stimulating programs and activities such as yoga, gives them the opportunity to develop all …
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28 Apr · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
What does the National Quality Framework mean for your child?
What Does The National Quality Framework Mean For Your Child? The National Quality Framework (NQF) is a national system for the regulation and quality assessment of child care and early learning services. The NQF applies to long day care, family day care, preschool, kindergarten and outside school hours care services. The framework includes a: …
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27 Mar · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
The Benefits of High-Quality Childcare
Why You Should Choose High-Quality Childcare For Your Child High-quality childcare benefits children socially, behaviourally, emotionally and intellectually. The right childcare will prepare you child for life as an adult. How do you sort the great childcare from the average? Well, a high-quality childcare or ‘early education’ centre will have: Great facilities …
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21 Feb · The Brook Early Education and Care · No Comments
How to Prepare Your Child for a Learning Centre
Tips on Getting Your Child Ready For a Learning Centre Finishing maternity leave and starting your child at a learning centre can be a stressful time. Most infants (up to 7 months of age) adjust very well to childcare. Older infants, however, might find that it takes a bit of adjusting. Here are some tips …
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