When Harry’s Brain Met Sally’s – How Boys and Girls Develop

They’re the sort of questions that countless parents have asked themselves at one time another. What makes our girls and our boys seem so dramatically different from one another? Is there a girl gene responsible for “sugar and spice and everything nice” and a corresponding boy gene for “frogs and snails and puppy dog tails”? [...]

Toilet Training Confidence

My sister spotted my four-year old washing up with the bidet after a poo as she walked past the bathroom. She was amused by his agility but couldn’t help alerting me to give him a hand.
“Oh, don’t worry about him. He can do it by himself. Usually he does quite a good job,” I [...]

A Child’s Optimism

My four-year old woke up early this morning and asked for a cuddle. Seeing that he was still groggy, I gently rocked him for a bit and laid him back on the bed. Ten minutes later, he bounded up and came into the bathroom. “Are you ready to brush your teeth?” I asked as I [...]

Dealing With Saying Good-bye

Whenever we say good-bye to our loved ones we hardly give it much thought. We take it for granted that we would be reunited again. But for young children, separation distress is huge for them. I have observed it in my own children; even my 11-year old daughter still waves as I reverse the car [...]

Saying Good-bye

Children like many adults have difficulties with saying good-bye. Saying good-bye also means having to deal with “closures” or “endings”. It can be as simple as “TV time is up” or “Let’s go home” after experiencing a fun time at the park.
When mum leaves the house (e.g. out to the shop), the toddler hollers. In [...]

A School with a Heart

As soon as my four-year old settled down to having a piece of banana walnut cake for tea, he said to me, “Mummy, tomorrow night we (switch) off the TV, computer, lights, air-cond and fan at 8.30.”

Nurturing Optimism

Many working parents inadvertently miss out on opportunities to help their children develop optimism due to their long hours spent at work outside the home. When they get home, all they feel like doing is chill out and for those without extra help, will have to get down to managing the household. Cooking and cleaning [...]

Developing Your Child’s Resiliency

Consider that an average person spends about 20 years in a formal education setting , it would be interesting to learn how one copes better than the other. What makes one child more resilient than the other?
According to a longterm research, children who are more securely attached with their carers are more able to adapt [...]

Attachment Styles

Mary Ainsworth developed John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory further in the 1970s. In pioneering “Strange Situation” study, researchers observed toddlers between the ages of 12 and 18 months as they responded to a situation in which they were briefly left alone and then reunited with their mothers.
Ainsworth categorized three major styles of attachment: secure, ambivalent and [...]

More on Attachment Theory

While researching more about John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory, I found the following advice given by Dr Ann Corwin on simple ways to form attachment with your baby. Great tips for new parents; however it is still not too late if your child is above 6 years old or 66!

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