Category: Child Development

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Attachment in Young Children

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Attachment in Young Children What is attachment? The way I see attachment can be broken down into four main points.

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Resolving Conflict and Aggression in Childhood

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Resolving Conflict and Aggression in Childhood “Conflict is observed early in human development, it is likely to arise as soon as an infant crawler or toddler is able to pull, prod…

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Pretend Play is a Child’s Work!

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Pretend Play is a Child’s Work! He taonga te tākaro, play is important. Play is what children do. It is their primary job and how children learn.

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Creating Rich Language and Speech Therapy (BSLT)

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Creating Rich Language and Speech Therapy (BSLT) There is one thing that unites parents of Aotearoa, Early Childhood Educators and the New Zealand government.

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Primary Caregiving and Respectful Relationships

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Primary Caregiving and Respectful Relationships How many times have you heard the phrase “Respect your elders”? How can we expect children to respect their elders when they themselves are not respected? I…

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Atypical Development of Communication

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Atypical Development of Communication In the last blog I pointed out that Part C: Strand 4 in Te Whāriki states that “Adults should have realistic expectations of children’s language development and…

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