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A schema is a pattern of actions or thoughts that are used to understand types of information and the relationships between them. Schemas help children experiment and explore the world around them to best understand how they can interact and live within it. Schemas usually emerge in early toddlerhood and continue to around 5 or 6 years old. If you can learn about schemas you can learn to identify them in your child's behaviour and use them as a better way to connect with and understand your child. We all engage in schemas and us them in our lives but young children do it in...

What makes an item a loose part? A loose part can be natural or synthetic and it is an item that can have multiple uses. It can be any item that you find with a different texture, shape or smell that will ignite children’s imagination and creativity. How to Play with Loose Parts Loose parts are a wonderful addition to any open ended play space. They offer children endless opportunities to manipulate materials however they would like! Loose parts provide many opportunities for play in our house and allow my children to be curious, creative and imaginative. They are so...

Christmas is celebrated differently in every family and we are often asked about how we personally celebrate after sharing our girls minimal presents and that we don’t really play along with the whole Santa thing. Our way is not the right way, everyone has their own way and it is changing as we go and the girls grow. We hope this blog will help you with your decisions around gift giving at this time of year and help explain your decisions to others in your life if their Christmas is celebrated differently as well. We have decided to write this...

One of my beautiful followers offered to write this useful blog for parents on how to reduce screen time in your home. This is definitely a subject I get a lot of questions about, but it didn't feel authentic coming from me to write this blog and how it worked for 'me' as we don't own a TV and my girls have always had no screen time up until a few months ago. Their screen time is now is a 30 minute episode of Playschool, 2-3 times a week using an iPad on our coffee table (they don't play games on this, its purely...