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Jayne — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:22:35 +0000

How would you like to contribute your story to the Child Development Made Simple blog?

We would like to hear from you, whether it be a personal experience article or some hints and tips that you would like to share.

You can either send it to us through the Contact Us page or email your story here at childdevelopmentmadesimple@googlemail.com

Don’t forget to include your name as we would like to give credit where it is due.

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Best Wishes

Jayne & Mike

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Site Announcement

Jayne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:10:47 +0000

Hi, we have reorganised the site a little.

In order to provide a better service to our readers, we have removed all the advertising from the general blog pages. We still have stuff available through the product pages, so we hope you find something you like.

We have also add a Google search over on the left hand side. We think that this will provide even more information for you.

Good reading

Jayne & Mike

Update from Mike & Jayne – Modern Living and Child Development

Mike and Jayne — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:32:52 +0000

A really interesting study based on the effects of modern living
and possible effects on Child Development, enjoy.

“Does modernization affect children’s cognitive development?”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/sfri-dma110609.php

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Child Development Made Simple – Where did all begin ?

Mike — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:33:59 +0000

Child Development Made Simple – Where did it all begin ? My start on the fantastic journey is that parenting began 12 years ago, at 5:05 early on a Sunday morning. Actually the journey began two weeks late, someone was obviously too comfortable where they were. However, when he/she decided to make an appearance, he/she didn’t hang about. Three and a half hours from start to finish.

Some of you may be thinking why I use the term ‘he/she’ ? Well, as a couple Jayne and I decided we wanted the baby’s sex to be a surprise. So at 5:05 a.m. master Luke made his long awaited appearance, much to his mother’s relief. Weighing in at 8lbs and 10 ounces and announcing his arrival with a hearty cry, something which he was going to practice on a regular basis.

Joining his elder sister, by 4 years, we looked forward to the future. That future will prove to have its ups and downs, successes and set backs, we here we are some 12 years on, having survived through them all. Here is a little picture of him, deep in thought during a soccer tournament.

Being a determined parent, I had great thoughts on how my little bundle of noise was going to grow up and how I would help him along the way. But the question is ‘Where do I start ?’. From a personal view, this took quite a lot of thought. Then I suppose I had that Eureka moment, corny as it may sound. I would look back over my own childhood, as much as I could remember, and then look at what I would do differently. As I sat and thought about it, I try to think about all the things that I thought my own parents didn’t do well and then try not to make the same mistakes. Don’t get me wrong here, that is not meant to be a criticism, as such, as they were probably doing the best they could given their circumstances. I simply mean that we can all improve on our own experiences.

So this blog is intended to share some of my experiences and hopefully you will find it of some use, even if it is just to say ‘I wouldn’t have done it that way’. Which is good, as it means that it has given you something to think about. I will over time discuss some of the material we found along the way and give you some pointers. We don’t profess to be experts in this field, just regular parents with a few years under our belts, still learning along the way and our efforts to have our Child Development Made Simple.

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Child Development Made Simple

Mike — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:43:59 +0000

As a parent we all want what is best for our children and as a result we find ways to best equip them with the skills they need to succeed in life.

To help achieve this goal there are a number if topics that we need to understand, these being

Role of the Parent
Understanding Your Child’s Development
Play as the Work of the Child
Temperament and Your Child
Developing Self-Esteem
Essential Parenting Skills
Helping Your Child with Socialisation & Manners
Chill out time for Parents

to name but a few topics. Hopefully these will get you to start to think how you can help your child develop.

Regardless of your child’s age, all parents want to help their children to reach developmental milestones. Whether it be fine or gross motor skills or speech and language development, there are several activities and ways a parent can encourage their child’s development.

Child development made simple begins at an early stage as babies, where they simply act as human sponges soaking up everything around them and providing them with the right stimulus can get them off to a great start. As they progress into toddlers and become more independent, choosing the right play will help motor development, eye-hand coordination and vision, cognitive skills, hearing / listening / vocal senses, social / emotional development and potentially unlocking their creative / imaginative skills. Better start putting the paint and crayons away!

As they get older, teaching them how to recognize what they want and how to set goals to achieve what they want is one of the most valuable lesson you can give them to become successful in life.

Like myself and many other parents, after years of parenting, we find ourselves reflecting back over time, wishing “If I could do it over again I would do a better job”. If we could only had the experience and wisdom earlier, then perhaps we could have given our children better start. Isn’t hindsight a wonerful thing ? Could I have done this or shown them that, then perhaps they could have ended up being stronger and better persons.

Thanks to the Internet, information for parents, like this site, is now more readily available. Child Development Made Simple will draw on my personal experiences, good and bad, successes and mistakes and also some of the information available that covers all the stages of child development, from birth through to adulthood. As this information is often widely spread on different web sites all over the Internet and other resources such as books and articles, this often takes a great deal of time and effort to locate. As this site develops, you too can develop as I bring together information and resources in a single useful location.

I have set two goals. Firstly, to get you to think about what you can do to help your child develop and secondly to provide easy access to a number of resources and products that will help to achieve your goal. Being a successful parent doesn’t mean having to win awards, it simply means doing the best you can for your child, with the best resources. I hope that by reading this article you are taking steps in the right direction.

So go on, dive in and give your child the advantages that you want for them and that they deserve and make your child development task simple!

Here is a list of additional articles that you may enjoy reading

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