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Quick notes for using a swing during the early years

Picture credit: Reandi Grey

Being on a swing benefits a child in three basic ways The movement helps to wire the brain for processing information. Stimulating the senses through swinging facilitates learning to organize and interpret spatial information via the vestibular system, which is situated in the inner ear. It’s calming. The smooth, back-and-forth motion helps with sensory integration. This can be soothing to a […]

Boosting you Child’s Social Skills: How Photographs can Help

Boosting you Child’s Social Skills: How Photographs can Help Photographs have a way of capturing important moments and letting them live forever.  They have stories to tell and feelings are embedded in them. That’s why many people use something called “therapeutic photography” as a bridge to connect with their thoughts, memories and feelings. The wonderful thing […]

Why and How to Develop Listening Skills in Your Child.

  Why and How to Develop Listening Skills in Your Child. We all know people who can hear perfectly and yet are terrible listeners. Hearing is typically present from birth. It’s simply a physical act of receiving sound stimulation and sending it to the brain for reception. On the other hand, listening is a skill […]

The 21st Century Skills for School

  What is expected of your child? For decades, the first thing that sprung to mind when parents thought about properly preparing their children for success was getting them to pass a school readiness test with flying colours. But the world is changing. Schools, specifically private schools, are now calling for a wider approach. “Being […]

How To Make A Second Language Feel More Natural

How To Make A Second Language Feel More Natural  Parents often ask the Practica Advisory Service how they can boost their little one’s ability to communicate in a 2nd language. Here’s a fun idea that children are naturally drawn to. Buy a new teddy and explain that he can understand and speak nothing but the […]