Identity and Belonging: How a Multilingual Child Processes Their Expanding World | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Mapping Identity and Belonging: How a Multilingual Child Processes Their Expanding World The morning chatter in the kindergarten room was loud and cheerful, a flurry of boots being unzipped and wet raincoats hung onto low wooden pegs. Five year old Zara stood…
Why My Autism Training Is Hitting Closer to Home Than I Expected (As a Parent With ADHD) Why My Autism Training Is Hitting Closer to Home Than I Expected (As a Parent With ADHD) Melbourne · Parenting & ADHD · Early Childhood Some weeks the training sits untouched. Other weeks I get through four modules…
ADHD Start Together Task Trick: Help Your Child Begin Without Pressure | EarlyChildhoodEduNet From Our Afternoon The 5 Minute Start Together Trick That Helped My Child Begin Tasks Without Pressure By Early Childhood Educator and Parent | A quiet afternoon, one untouched worksheet, and the five minute shift that changed our routine. The ADHD start…
mother-daughter-bonding-activities-busy-moms | EarlyChildhoodEduNet From Our Weekend Mother Daughter Bonding Activities That Actually Fit a Busy Mom’s Real Life A busy mum, a grocery run, matcha ice cream at Chadstone, and the ten minutes that became our favourite part of the week. Most mother daughter bonding activities I’ve read about assume you have an afternoon free,…
How to Connect With Parents Without Endless Meetings | EarlyChildhoodEduNet For Teachers How to Connect With Parents Without Endless Meetings On thirty seconds at pickup doing more than a scheduled half-hour ever did. The meeting that never quite happened During my two years working across childcare centres in Melbourne’s east, I quickly ran into a…
How to Enhance Classroom Creativity Without Extra Resources | EarlyChildhoodEduNet For Teachers How to Enhance Classroom Creativity Without Extra Resources On why I left research to go find out what was actually true in a room full of toddlers. Why I left the PhD desk for a childcare floor After I finished my PhD, I…
ADHD Child Won’t Start Tasks? What Actually Helps | EarlyChildhoodEduNet For Parents & Teachers ADHD Child Won’t Start Tasks? Here’s What Actually Helps On why a bright, sensitive kid can stall before beginning, and what genuinely gets her moving — written from experience, as a parent and as someone with ADHD myself. This post shares…
How to Make Learning Fun Without Breaking the Bank | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Learning at Home How to Make Learning Fun Without Breaking the Bank On arriving in a new country with two kids and almost nothing to spare. Landing in Melbourne with almost nothing to spare We arrived in Melbourne in 2010, me starting a PhD,…
How to Foster a Love of Learning Without Overcomplicating Things | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Learning at Home How to Foster a Love of Learning Without Overcomplicating Things On the trouble with treating your own child like a research project. A curriculum for a six-year-old I built a curriculum for my eldest once, she was six, just as…
Building Simple Cross-Curricular Connections | EarlyChildhoodEduNet For Teachers Building Simple Cross-Curricular Connections A practical look at teaching one theme across a few subjects at once, rather than treating each as its own island. Most early learning happens in neat little boxes. Maths at ten, literacy after morning tea, art on a Friday if there’s time…