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Tips For Teaching Kids Active Listening

Discover tips and activities to teach active listening skills to kids, helping them communicate better, build strong relationships, improve concentration and more.
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Guided Learning: Definition, Strategies & Real Examples

Learn what guided learning is, how it works, and how to apply it effectively with strategies, real examples, and expert-backed insights.
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Parent-Child Approach: Positive Parenting Relationships

Explore the parent‑child approach to raise confident, emotionally secure children. Learn positive strategies, communication techniques, and expert-backed guidance.
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Learning and Education

Healthy Screen Time Limits: Guidelines for Kids by Age

Discover healthy screen time limits for kids by age, including expert guidelines, risks of excessive screen use, and practical tips for balanced digital habits.
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Can Kids Really Have a Photographic Memory

Child has an amazing memory? While true, lifelong recall is rare, what your child possesses is likely strong visual memory: a powerful, trainable skill built on a temporary ability called eidetic memory.
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Child Development•Play and Games

Learning Through Play: Main Stages of Play Development

Discover the types of play in child development and how each stage nurtures creativity, social skills, and cognitive growth.
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Child Development

What Can Babies See? A Guide to Infant Vision

Discover what babies can see from newborn to 6 months, when infants see colour, and how their vision develops. Learn milestones and tips to support your baby’s visual growth.
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How Guided Play Supports Early Childhood Learning

Guided play is a learning approach where children lead the activity while adults provide subtle support to encourage discovery and growth. It balances child autonomy letting your child choose how they explore with adult scaffolding.
Brain Development in Early Childhood

Brain Development in Early Childhood: Stages & Milestones

Brain development in early childhood is the process of building and strengthening the brain’s connections and systems that support learning, language, movement, memory, attention, and emotional regulation.
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Curiosity Building Activities: Raise an Inquisitive Child

When a child is curious, they’re not just paying attention. They’re thinking, exploring, and making connections that stick. And the best part is you don’t have to create curiosity from scratch! Read more and learn how to encourage curiosity from a young age.
parenting in the digital age, Raising Tech Savvy Kids Safely

Parenting in the Digital Age: Raising Tech-Savvy Kids

Modern digital age parenting strategies is all about helping children understand that what they do online can have lasting consequences. Read more for practical insights and tips!
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Self-Esteem and Confidence Building Activities for Kids

Confidence isn’t something children are born with; it develops with time. By actively supporting your young child’s self-esteem through confidence building activities, you give them the tools to thrive, feel capable, and engage positively with others.
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Concentration and Memory

How to Improve Attention Span in Children With Play-Based Tips

Focus and attention span grows through repetition, connection, routine and play. With the right support, simple games and practical activities can help your child slowly build the ability to concentrate, listen, and stay engaged for longer.
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Child Development

Building Resilience in Kids Who Are Sensitive or Anxious

Learn how to build resilience in sensitive kids and help preschoolers with separation jitters and anxiety. Discover practical, research-backed strategies for confident, calm children.
How to Make Learning English Fun for Kids with Games & Songs

How to Make Learning English Fun for Kids with Games & Songs

Discover fun ways to teach young kids English using games, songs, storytelling, and creative activities that improve vocabulary, confidence, and language skills.

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Positional Language Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Explore fun positional language activities for toddlers and preschoolers. Discover how spatial concept games build measuring, sorting, and early maths skills for school readiness.
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Visual Learning for Kids: Easy Visual Tracking Activities

Visual learning is one of the earliest ways children make sense of the world around them. It helps build reading readiness, problem-solving, movement, communication, and growing confidence.
Phonemic Awareness Activities for Young Children: A Guide

Phonemic Awareness Activities for Young Children: A Guide

Discover phonemic awareness activities that build early reading skills. Learn simple, age-appropriate ways to develop early sound awareness in young children.
Simple Mindfulness and Gratitude Activities for Preschoolers
Emotional Intelligence

Simple Mindfulness and Gratitude Activities for Preschoolers

Discover gratitude and mindfulness activities for preschoolers. Simple, research-backed ways to build emotional skills, resilience, and a positive mindset at home.

Open Ended Questions for Preschoolers: Get Kids Talking

Open Ended Questions for Preschoolers: Get Kids Talking

Open ended questions for preschoolers invite young children to think, reflect, and express ideas in their own words. Open ended questions are one of the most accessible and powerful cognitive enrichment tools for parents. Regular use of these types of questions builds cognitive flexibility, language development, and independent thinking. Read more now!
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Vocabulary Games for Kids: Fun Ways to Build Language, Memory and Confidence

Developing a child's vocabulary is a cornerstone of their early learning adventures. From birth, children begin to learn the words that will help them communicate with the world, and parents play a vital role in facilitating that growth. Read more now!
How to Teach a Toddler to Talk: Simple, Playful Ways to Build Language at Home
Child Development

How to Teach a Toddler to Talk: Simple, Playful Ways to Build Language at Home

Wondering how to teach your toddler to talk? Learn simple, playful ways to support speech and language development through songs, reading, repetition, phonics and everyday parent-child interaction.

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Letter Recognition Games at Home: Fun & Easy Ideas for Kids

Discover fun letter recognition games and phonics activities at home, including blending, segmenting, rhyming, and sound matching to build early reading skills.
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News Article

The Age Article: It’s A Numbers Game

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News Article

Transitioning To Kinder Webinar

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News Article

Whole-Brain Program: Shichida Kids Get Recognised!

Develop your Child's Full Potential: Young kids at Shichida
Child Development

Develop Your Child’s Full Potential

Shichida, home to the world-renowned training method from Japan, is working with you every day to develop your child's full potential.
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Emotional Intelligence

Dealing With Difficult Situations

Kids often face new challenges and a great way to dealing with difficult situations is to use their imagination.
Young Shichida kids showing that love of learning helps, featured in the Herald Sun.
News Article

Love Of Learning Helps Make The Grade

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Shichida Baby Ammara Practicing Recitation

Another amazing Shichida baby, practicing recitation activities during the holiday break. Recitation gets kids excited about reading.