Teaching Kids to Be Safe Without Making Them Scared

Tips for Safety with Strangers and People Children Know

Children’s personal safety skills, when supported, can help them stay safe with most people most of the time. You can teach children to be safe without scaring them - You just need to know how...

Protecting your child from window and balcony falls – Action Plan!

Over the last few months, a number of toddlers have fallen to their deaths from balconies and windows in the UAE. No parent should have to endure the pain of losing a child and the agony of regret, knowing that it is now too late to prevent the loss. In many cases accidents such as these could have been prevented by parental awareness of dangers and by following certain simple measures.

Simple Kitchen Fun for Christmas

Can you believe 2011 is almost over?! Here we are again, and once December starts the festive spirit takes over. We all get in the mood for celebration, decoration, gatherings and music of being jolly and merry. December is the month of celebrating the end of one year in anticipation for another. Filled with hopes, dreams, resolutions and plans, we take on yet another year with open arms. Where best to start the celebrations than with simple fun kitchen activities for the whole family to enjoy?!

A Nursery in the Making

Get together with any parent of a young child in Abu Dhabi and nurseries will inevitably become the topic of conversation. We’ve all lamented over high student to teacher ratios, inadequate buildings, poor teacher qualifications, unsuitable hours, cost of tuition and more. Some parents find themselves having to resign from their jobs in order to take care of their babies and because what is on offer simply doesn’t meet their requirements.

Pictures and Proceeds — The Art of Fund-raising

If you’re anything like me, your house will be over-run with kids’ artwork: splodges, squiggles, drawings and paintings including everything from their first handprint, through to spiky stickmen and crazy paintings that would raise even Francis Bacon’s eyebrows.

Quite frankly, I don’t know what to do with it all. The last attempted cull came to an abrupt halt mid-flow when my artistic offspring spotted her ‘baby chicken’ (a vicious circular scribble with a yellow crayon) peeking forlornly out of the dustbin.

Much is written about language development and the milestones associated with language development in early childhood literature we mother’s devour. Little is made mention of the mathematical development in children prior to formal education. Yet, a basic understanding of math is crucial to a child’s perception of themselves as mathematicians as they start formal education.

Halloween Games That Keep Kids Moving

Having a party? These Halloween games will add fun and fitness to the festivities.

Play Date Ideas

Play dates can be so much fun! They provide an opportunity for younger kids to practice social skills, for class mates to get together outside of the school hours and it certainly doesn't hurt to have coffee and get to know other parents while the kids play. Every mother knows though, that play dates can also be very demanding. Not all children get along well together and at times, if children get tired or bored, trouble strikes!