Feeding
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What Makes a Good Highchair?
Hint: It's Not How Easy It Is to Clean! When it comes to choosing a high chair, many parents focus on how easy it is to clean—after all, mealtimes with...
How to Encourage Your Baby to Feed Themselves Sooner with the Spoon-Switching Method
Feeding your baby can feel like a juggling act, especially when it comes to teaching them how to use a spoon. But what if there was a way to make...
The Classic Kiwi Cheese Roll
A kiwi classic - cheese rolls!Doesn’t get any better than this for a quick snack and a great one to help your little one to practise those spreading, mixing and...
Messy is Best: The Importance of Letting Kids Practice with Food
To get better at anything, including skateboarding, kids need practice. Part of that process involves falling and making mistakes. Over time, through repetition and learning from those mistakes, they improve....
Open Cup Practice with a Breakfast Smoothie
Smoothies are one of the BEST THINGS to put in an open cup because smoothies FLOW SLOWER than water. Fast flowing water can sometimes startle children who are learning to...
How Setting the Table Can Improve Mealtimes for Kids
Struggling with difficult mealtimes? It seems a bit old-school, but having kids set the table has way more benefits than just "it helps out the parents". Consider these: ➕ Math...
Open Cup or Sippy Cup? Here’s Why Open Cups Win Every Time
Did you know your baby can start using an open cup as early as 4-6 months? Yep, and it's packed with developmental perks! Supports mature swallowing and strengthens mouth...
Preschooler Knife Skills
Did you know that even preschoolers can use knives? If your little one can stand independently, they’re ready to try spreading butter on bread and chopping up food themselves! Yes,...
Struggling with your toddler at mealtimes?
Have you checked your high chair?!We'd left it way too long since our last alteration and mealtimes had gone downhill as a direct result of that.Nobody wants to sit in...
Teaching your Baby to drink from a Clever Cup
Designed by a Speech and Language TherapistDid you know that children can drink from an open cup from the moment you start solids? That’s right - 4, 5 and 6...
Benefits of letting Babies use an open cup from 6m+
Practice makes perfect.Embrace the mess and let your little one learn how do drink from an open cup.Did you know that smoothies are one of the best things you can...
Do pouches and feeding bottles affect feeding development?
Messy is best.I think squeezy pouches and feeding bottles and smoothie cups with straws have become more and more popular because people don’t want the mess. I get it -...
Why I let my toddler make cups of tea
Kids love independence.I always give august the opportunity to join in with whatever I’m making. Here are a few reasons:1. It develops his independence and life skills. Practice and repetition...
How to Stop Food Throwing at the Table
4 Tips to Stop Food Throwing. Prevention is ALWAYS the best strategy when dealing with any behaviour. Okay so you’re diligently saying “I can’t let you do that” when your...
3 Tips for Better Spoon Feeding
How to spoon feed your baby? Now of course you know how to do this but you can’t do better until you know better and there are some better ways....
How to Teach your Baby to use a Straw
Do NOT break this rule:To be respectful to our children, it's important we don't force the straw into their mouth. We TRULY want them to lean in towards to straw...
3 Ways to Make Starting Solids Successful
3 tips from a speech and language therapist to support your little one to start solids. Because it's such a big step in your little one's journey and there is...
How to Support your Toddler to Eat New Foods
Fun, varied exposure using kebab sticks 👌👌🥒🥕🍅🌱🍆🌶🥦🌽🍒🍓🍇🍎🍉🍑🍊🍋🍍🍌🥑🍏🍐🥝 Just a parent to parent reminder to keep serving fruit and vegetables that your kids don’t eat, even if they don’t eat them....
5 Ways to Stop Food Throwing at Mealtimes
Don't come after your tiny baby. They're just learning about the world and how things work. But from approx age 11m and up, your little one knows that you don't...
Halloween Cupcakes
August made Halloween cupcakes today with his Nana.They made pumpkins, spiders and skeletons, with only red and yellow food colouring, liquorice, marshmallows, a couple of jelly sweets and an edible...
