Start As We Mean To Go On Christopher Stockwell wrote a piece this week for Cotswolds Arts Through Schools, “The £24 Billion Lesson We Are Refusing to Learn”. He describes watching children written off as difficult come alive in an African drumming class, and asks why we wait until school to invest in what makes…
How Play Shapes Your Baby’s Brain For a baby, playing is not a break from learning. It is the learning. From the earliest weeks, a baby’s favourite plaything is your face. She watches your eyes and mouth, works out what a smile means, and begins to copy what she sees. Clap her hands together while…
Family Holidays With a Baby Holidays look different once there’s a baby in the mix, and the planning that goes into them looks different too. Start with accommodation. Places that describe themselves as family friendly usually already have a cot, a highchair and a few toys waiting for you, which means less to pack. Climate…
What Your Baby Has Been Building This Term The summer term covers a lot of ground. Over the past twelve weeks you have explored everything from language and visual development to milestones, music, social skills, and food. Each week has added something to the picture of how your baby is developing – and how you,…
This article on Outdoor Play was based on our insight written for Baby College by Nina Politimou, Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL, Institute of Education and an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, Department of Psychological Sciences. Eight Reasons to Get Outside With Your Baby or Toddler Getting outside with a baby or toddler takes effort. By…
Your Baby’s Relationship with Food Starts Earlier Than the First Spoonful Feeding a baby is one of the things parents worry about most, and one of the areas where the gap between expectation and reality tends to be widest. The good news is that most of what looks like a problem is actually normal development.…
What makes the best baby class? Five things worth looking for Search for “best baby class” and you’ll find no shortage of results. Sensory play, baby yoga, music groups, messy play, rhyme time – the options have never been more varied, which is brilliant in principle and slightly overwhelming in practice. But here’s the thing.…