Follow your child’s lead. Let your child choose what to play with and watch how they play with the toys. Avoid trying to get your child to change their focus of interest to something you want to do. E.g. … Read More
Children learn about the world though exploring and experimenting – looking, listening, touching, tasting and moving. Exploration comes before play. Children explore the unfamiliar, devoting their whole attention to something and trying to “work it out”. When the unfamiliar become … Read More
“My child does not chew…will this impact on their speech?” “My child is delayed in their feeding skills, does this mean they will also be delayed in their speech development?” … certainly we use the same anatomy to suck, eat … Read More
The Oxford dictionary defines “babbling” as “to talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way” or to “utter something rapidly and incoherently”. This definition does somehow not do justice to the “babbling” that babies engage in… babbling … Read More
Children are born with a preference for sweet flavours and have to learn to like other tastes, such as sour, salt and bitter flavours (1). Some children inherit a strong dislike for bitter flavours and unfortunately a lot of vegetables … Read More