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At Play Boutique, we’re all about giving families what they need to thrive. The Buzz is our way of bringing you resources, articles, craft ideas, and so much more to make the most of your time playing together. Time to get busy, little bees!
Is Your Child Ready for Potty Training
The entire process of potty training your child can take anywhere from six months to twelve months from the day they start exhibiting the signs that they’re ready.
Coping with a Crying Child
Nothing is more touching to new parents than the cry of their baby, but your crying baby may present a dilemma to you. If you respond promptly to crying, you might feel you will spend all of your time responding to crying. A good understanding of the causes of crying and the consequences of letting children cry without a prompt adult response will help you approach crying children in the best way possible.
Learning Through Play
Children ages birth to three years learns differently than older children. Young children tend to learn through their senses of tasting, touching, hearing, seeing, and smelling more so than from adult instruction or preschool worksheets.
How to Encourage Independence in Toddlers
Success in achieving age- and stage-appropriate autonomy and independence throughout childhood has a profound impact on the way children mature. Children are naturally motivated to make things happen.
Thumbs, Pacifiers and Security Items
As you get to know your baby, there will be many parenting decisions you have to make. Many of these decisions seem very difficult when you are faced with them, but can be considered rather directly. Let’s talk about three important issues that you might face as a new parent.
Encouraging Your Toddler to Clean Up
There are some tools that parents use to help a toddler recognize the time has arrived for picking up their things. You can use an egg timer to ding in five minutes after giving your toddler a five-minute warning that clean up time is arriving. Giving your toddler a visual or noise-maker signal when you want them to switch gears will help your toddler develop a natural routine for picking up their toys.
10 Tips to Build a Better Bedtime Routine
Remember those chaotic days when your baby knew no difference between days and nights. It appeared that you wouldn’t get past this phase of sleeplessness and overwhelm.
But you did!
Those days are over now and you can get some sleep at night. Still, this sleep is not enough. You want more peace. The good news is that you can have it.
The key lies in empowering our children to be more independent. And empowering independent yet sound and healthy sleep in your children is just one favor you can do to yourself.
So, how do you do it? Here’s a complete guide
How to Get Kids Involved with Household Chores the Right Way
The unstructured play has nearly endless benefits for a child’s development and young kids should be allowed to spend most of their time playing. However, giving your children chores has its advantages too.
New Year’s Me Time
With the busy holiday season coming to a close, it's tempting to spend New Year's Day horizontal on the couch in your most comfortable pajamas, doing a whole lot of nothing. After a whirlwind month of holiday chaos (not to mention a potentially late New Year's Eve night), doing nothing might be exactly what you think you need. And after a crazy 2020, we really can't blame you!
Holiday Family Fun Activities
Make the most of the holiday season and spend some special moments with your family. Print this list of festive activities to hang on your fridge, and check them off as you go along.
Pros and Cons of Screen Time for Kids
As you may or may not have realized by now, parenting in the 21st century is a lot different from the
experience we might have had as children decades ago. In fact, nowadays there are all these new
problems with which parents are faced as they give birth to digital natives, who seem to exit the womb
with computer, tablet and smartphone know - how.