Playtime is More Than a Fun Activity, It's a Learning Experience! Learn About the 6 Stages in Play Development That Build Your Child's Social Skills!
Because our work requires such close relationships and collaboration with many of South Carolina’s local pediatricians, we developed this helpful chart of SC child development milestones to monitor for developmental delays.
Each child must develop certain balance milestones to help with attention, focus and higher learning as they grow older.
Learn about play schemas and get activity ideas for each of the 9 play schemas. Transporting, positioning, connection, transforming...
Speech, play, and physcial development checklists for baby from 0-15 months old. Plus, tips to help encourage your baby's development.
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Learning through play is not an added bonus, it is the most important type of learning for young children.
Tips for staying calm, calming your child, and tools that they can use anywhere.
You may be living your life, making decisions that you think are best for your mental health, but are really based on outdated and erroneous information.
According to Adolph, Weise, and Marin (2003), “Motor development refers to changes in children's ability to control their body's movements, from infants' first spontaneous waving and kicking movements to the adaptive control of reaching, locomotion, and complex sport skills”. Click here for the full-resolution PDF of this chart. ReferencesAdolph, K. E., Weise, L., & Marin, L. (2003). Motor development. In L. Nadel, Encyclopedia of cognitive sciences (pp. 134-137). London: Macmillan-Reference
See our checklist for communication milestones, broken down by age, and tips for encouraging speech and language development.
Our Social Development Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging Child Development classrooms.
Psychologist Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development has 4 stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Early childhood is a time of tremendous brain development. Discover the secrets to raising children with healthy and optimal brain growth.
Did you know your baby starts exploring things using its sense in the first stage of development? Read this post to learn more about the sensorimotor stage.
Are you searching for the best curriculum for your homeschool preschool? The emergent curriculum puts your child and their development first.
The 12 Types of Play Infographic depicts how play evolves as children grow, how social development is linked with play, and the important role parents have in supporting children’s learning through play.
Experts are discovering that everyday playful interactions with babies ages 9 to 12 months may help reduce symptoms of autism in children with the disorder.
A blog about supporting children's play in schools
Connecting Families Through the Magic of Music
Our Physical Development Poster is a great educational resource that will help you create relevant and engaging Child Development classrooms.
There's more to development than milestones. Track your child's play and social skills, coordination, daily activities, and self-expression abilities.
What is a play 'schema' and why is it useful for new parents to understand these? Simple play ideas to support baby and toddler development. #babydevelopment #playschema #play #earlychildhood #toddlerdevelopment #birthtothree #babyplayideas #toddlerdevelopmentactivities #learnwithless
A common question parents have is: When do babies start talking? We put together a month-by-month guide to your baby's speech development.
How to Boost Your Baby's Brain Power: A Simple Guide Have you ever wondered about your little one's brain development? It's like a garden that grows faster and healthier with the right care. Early childhood
It is important to make sure our children continue to develop in terms of learning. Here is an infographic that help develop your child’s curiosity, creativity, reasoning ability, independence, and critical thinking by asking open-ended questions you can ask to your child.
It's something I have written about a lot on here. Spirited kids, difficult kids, intense kids...helping them calm down, teaching them tactics to calm themselves. It's something that we all understand as parents, what it
I tried to teach my child with books. He gave me only puzzled looks. I used clear words to discipline, But I n
Children's Play SchemasIn case you need a recap on Play Schemas then I highly suggest you head to our blog 'What are Play Schemas?' before reading ahead.
The battle for financial literacy rages on as educators and parents, politicians and lobbyists constantly engage in conversations over who should be teaching...
