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Babies and Crawling

When babies learn to crawl it is a developmental milestone that many parents remember for years to come. Some parents view crawling as a bittersweet event �...

Babies Awareness of Colours

Babies can see colours at birth though often they will have trouble distinguishing similar tones. For this reason many babies prefer to look at black and whi...

Brain Development in Young Children

Did you know that although most of the brain’s cells are formed before birth the majority of connections between these cells are not made until infancy and...

Encourage Your Child's Physical Development

A child’s physical development depends just as much on nurture as it does on nature. On the one hand a child is born with a genetic map that will guide suc...

Handedness in Children

A few generations ago there was a strong social preference for right handedness and parents would often try to persuade their children to predominantly use t...

Spatial Awareness in Young Children

Spatial awareness is an organised knowledge of objects including oneself, in a given space. Spatial awareness also involves understanding the relationships o...

Toilet Training and Children

Toilet training is a developmental milestone that many parents will remember for their children for the rest of their lives. Though some parents seem to thin...

What do Babies Hear?

When a baby is born his/her auditory system is the most strongly developed of all the sensory systems. This means that in general babies respond to the world...

What do Babies See?

Of all of the sensory systems the visual system is the least developed at birth. This means that sight is often the weakest of the senses when a baby is born...

When Should You Worry About Your Child's Development?

As a parent, it’s only natural to worry about your child. One of the main areas of concern for parents, especially during the early years, is whether or no...

Your Child's First Steps

Most parents remember their child’s first steps for the rest of their lives but that doesn’t mean that there should be any pressure surrounding this deve...