Connect with your baby through massage
After teaching parents throughout Australia how to massage their babies, Amy Booker is now able to reach parents and babies all over the world…
Engage and Educate
Forest & Bird’s Kiwi Conservation Club
Have you heard of Forest & Bird’s Kiwi Conservation Club | Hakuturi Toa (KCC)? It’s something we’d recommend you look into if you haven’t. KCC has been connecting Kiwi kids and their…
Child-Led Learning: How it Works & 3 Big Benefits
By Sarah R. Moore Child-led learning is an approach to education that differs from more structured teaching, wherein children learn by pursuing their interests…
Creating little budding gardeners and nature lovers
Passionate about teaching children to embrace the outdoors, Melanie Douglas believes in the importance of nurturing their connection with nature. At Little Farmer, she makes it…
The Book Playbox: Read, create, play
With a background in teaching, Tanya Hodgson set out to encourage parents to read and be creative with their children, while spending time together…
Early Play and Communication
By Donna Heather “Oh, you get paid to play? That must be nice!”. I have heard this so many times over my career as a speech language therapist. Yes,…
Sustainable, natural, open-ended play solutions
Seeing a gap in the local market and inspired by her daughter with ASD, Rebecca Young set out to address the lack of available…
A mixture of science and spirituality: Koru NZ Wellness Retreats
After personal triumphs and tribulations, and a wealth of knowledge and experience in hospitality and wellness, Kelly Sanders is building the strong foundations of…
Online maths tutoring to engage and educate young learners
As an experienced primary school teacher, Courtney King began offering tutoring after the birth of her son, and discovered that there were key mathematical…
Science Fiction for Kids: Possibility and Resourceful Creativity
By Nelle Myrica Donaldson Choosing a Fantasy Door: History vs. Sci-Fi What if you could choose between changing the past and changing the future? In Back to the Future (1985),…
Absence
By Jeremy Majid On a recent trip to the library, I came across an intriguing cook book. It was not just a collection of…
The Singing Fairies: Inspiring and educating through music
Mother and daughter team, Emmeline and Coral Pitcher, are passionate about positively impacting children’s lives through music. The Singing Fairies is a fun and inspirational children’s show, educating and…
Connection-centred parenting: join the supportive community
By Anne Cullen In August I got one of the most amazing offers I’d ever received. Five years into running a private practice as a…
Explore your creativity at Frith St
Inspired by her creative parents, Ruby Barnett followed her passion for jewellery and crochet and started her own business, selling handmade, vintage and new products, as well…
Health is not valued till sickness comes
By Desiree Lee Health is not valued till sickness comes. These words by Thomas Fuller resonate in my mind as I sit looking out my window at the beautiful native trees…
Safe sunscreen: for our skin and the environment
We are all increasingly aware of sun safety and the importance of protecting our own and our children’s skin from the sun’s damaging rays….
Teaching kids how to protect the earth
By Sarah Moore As I write this, the Amazon rainforest is ablaze. That’s a very big problem; there’s every chance that the fires could…
What is La Leche League?
(La Leche, pronounced ‘la lay-chay’, is Spanish for “the milk”) Ask any number of parents across the country what La Leche League does and…
Reducing PMS chocolate cravings – Have You Tried An Epsom salt bath?
By Dionne Stroebel Did you know chocolate cravings can be related to being low in magnesium? Gram for gram, chocolate has more magnesium than…
Five Tips for Securing Flexible Working Hours
By Amy Prebble Would you like to be able to work flexibly in your current role, but don’t know how to make that happen? …