Suitable for: 4 and above No. of Players: 2 – 4 Length of average gameplay 20 minutes Best features: Money Management, Ease of Gameplay, Quality Worst features: Repetitive Gameplay Price: $$ Overall Rating: 6.5 / 10 Aptly called “Monopoly Junior”, this game possesses only the most simplified aspects of its namesake, which has its own …
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Suitable for: 3 and above No. of Players: 2 – 4 Length of average gameplay 20 minutes Best features: Co-operative element, strategic thinking, game aesthetics Worst features: Repetitive gameplay, possibility for alpha player to dominate Price: $$$ Overall Rating: 7 / 10 Are your kids always fighting? Can they never agree on the smallest thing? …
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Observing facial expressions and cues is a huge part of how our children learn to interact with their community and environment, associate visual cues with positive or negative emotions, identify speech patterns and draw associations between mouth movements and different phonetic sounds. In 2013, scientists measured hemodynamic responses in infants’ brains using near-infrared spectroscopy and …
Suitable for: 5 and above No. of Players 30 minutes Best features: Fun mathematical concepts, diverse gameplay, strategic thinking, game aesthetics Worst features: Dependent on luck, many numbers to keep track of Price: $$ Overall Rating: 8.5 / 10 With math, practice makes perfect, but my K2 girl was getting tired of the endless assessment …
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What your child needs At this age, your child instinctively and actively seeks attention and comfort from parents and caregivers. Your child’s prefrontal cortex is immature, and the child depends on external emotional regulators (the parents or caregivers) to stabilise his or her emotions. Invest the time – proactively give your child the attention he …
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A period of rapid brain development While your child might have developed some understanding of cause-and-effect from around 3 to 6 months of age, before 1 year old, they are mostly observers. Now however, they are actively seeking out new patterns and curious to try out new actions to see what effects they could cause. …
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A new kind of tantrum According to Dr Daniel Siegel, co-author of The Whole-Brain Child, there are two kinds of tantrums. The “upstairs” and “downstairs” – “upstairs” being a deliberate tantrum meant to achieve a specific want, whereas “downstairs” tantrums are caused by the child’s inability to emotionally regulate. Now that they are older, you …
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What your child needs Attention! Lots and lots of attention. Why now? Why are they asking so many questions? Why are they talking so much? Children at this age are incredibly emotional, curious and… dramatic. At this age, paying them enough attention is important, but denying them your attention can also be a powerful tool …
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The key question here is, why do we discipline? For most of us, discipline is reactive – i.e. it is not planned; and only comes into play when the child misbehaves. While this is a completely valid approach, it is also a narrow-focus method that solves problems one at a time. Discipline is not punishing. …
