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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery | Viewing Child Development with Perspective of Child Rights

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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery | Children find their ways to grab the attention of the people around them. For that reason, they don’t mind even indulging in mischievous activities that could irritate their audience. One of the common irritants your child might resort to is to demand for items that he/she might already know he/she would not get. And we tend to reciprocate with the mistake of simply appending to the series of denials we would have already made. Has a plain denial ever given you a solution for any problem? In most likelihood, no. So what is the ‘ideal’ way out of such situations with children? Well, you should undoubtedly say no to anything unacceptable but in a subtle way and with a justification to help children understand why you denied it. You might have realised at some point that punishment cannot be a solution for any of the issues with children. In fact, the children who are physically or psychologically punished are likely to display worse behaviour. As much as t...
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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | The playful connection with parent/ child yoga

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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | The concept of yoga for children is growing by leaps and bounds in mainstream society, with increasing research to support the benefits of adopting a practice during childhood. In the ancient Indian language Sanskrit, “Yoga” translates as “to yoke or unite,” offering a mind -body connection teaching adults and children alike to exercise the body while calming the mind and spirit. I like to share this with my wee yogis and their parents as the building blocks for a balanced self through focus on mind, body, and breath.Yoga supports the development of the whole child. In the case of toddlers practicing with their parents, it supports the bond between them. While a yoga class for youth might look markedly different than your typical adult class, rest assured the benefits are the same, and then some! Children may experience increased lung capacity, focus, balance, strength, flexibility, coordination, and stimulation of both sides of the brain. The ...
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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | Communicating with Young Children

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Communicating positively with young children helps them develop confidence, feelings of self- worth, ad good relationships with others. Modeling appropriate behaviour is one of the best ways to get desired behaviour from a child. Positive communication leads to nurturing, relationships, cooperation and feelings of worth.Important points to consider while communicating with children: Get the child’s attention before speaking. (Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool) Communicate at the child’s level. Adults need to stoop down to the child’s level or sit beside her. Eliminate distractions and maintain eye contact. For example, If a parent is reading a newspaper or watching television and the child wants to speak to you, kindly keep the paper aside or switch the television off and pay attention to what the child is saying. Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool Make requests simple. Too many requests are confusing for a young child to remember. Make sure that your requests are short,...
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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | How Important Is Vitamin D In Your Child’s Health?

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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | Despite what its name implies, vitamin D is actually a hormone. It has many roles within the body including a part to play in the immune system. Sunlight is one of the best boosters of vitamin D, and during the spring and summer months our children should get enough if they spend short daily stints outside, without sun protection. However, as the dark afternoons draw in, how can we be sure how much vitamin D our children are actually getting? Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | We all know that calcium is needed for bone growth and strength, but vitamin D is also needed in the metabolic equation to absorb the calcium. This is why vitamin D is often fortified alongside calcium in products such as children’s breakfast cereals and milk. With recent reports of the Victorian disease of Rickets on the increase in children, it might be prudent to keep a closer eye on our children’s intake Only 10% of our vit...
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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | Skill-Based Learning and Soft Skills at Schools

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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | What does good education give you? A store of useful facts needed for navigating the world of work and get a handsome package? Or a set of soft skills to manage change in future and familiarize themselves with changes susceptible in future? Educationalists and politicians argue to and for between knowledge and skills. Truth be told a good education gives you both: one (knowledge) providing the other (skills) contexts to develop. Research indicates that teaching and assessing students or any individual is much effective than listening to the lecture-based teaching. If this is true then it’s a good rationale for skills-based learning: teaching and assessing one another needs planning, group work, creativity, enquiry, evaluation and self-confidence Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool “Having growing numbers of students with A + grades is all well and good, but it doesn’t tell schools and employers much about them and what they can do to get ...
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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | How to Help Your Child’s Reading Fluency

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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool | “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.” This is from the 1985 report of the Commission on Reading. Reading is foundational for building a lifetime of knowledge. This process begins when children are young and continues as they grow and mature. When you read aloud to your child you are creating a great opportunity to bond. It is an opportunity to slow down while you read aloud from a great story. A story you can share together. Mighty Oaks Day Nursery and Preschool Reading aloud to a child helps that child figure out how language is put together. It builds a foundation for language use. It also develops thinking skills which contribute to understanding. It will stimulate a child’s imagination and help him to understand logical sequence. Experts agree that starting early has many long-term benefits. When your child is 1 to 2 months old (Mighty Oaks...
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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery | How to Help Your Child Enjoy Reading

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Mighty Oaks Day Nursery | Learning to read is a very important set in a child’s development and some parent’s worry that not enough time is spent in schools on this. The idea that some children get left behind others in the classroom is a concern for many, though there are ways in which you as parents or guardians can help your child at home so that they get the most out of learning in the school environment when they are there. See how your child’s school is teaching their pupils to read. Various techniques should be being used, as each child will find a particular way of learning helps them best. Mighty Oaks Day Nursery · By acting out plays with scripts it makes the process enjoyable for children and they will be encouraged to read and act out their part. Learning lines, even if they are only small will help them to identify words and phases they will encounter in the future. · Encourage your child to ask questions of the teacher in school if they feel like they are struggling...
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