Screen Time Guidelines for Children

In April this year, the World Health Organisation issued the first-ever guidelines for kids’ screen time.    The reason behind this was because “Achieving health for all means doing what is best for health right from the beginning of people’s lives,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. “Early childhood is a period
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Working Memory in children

Working memory refers to the ability to hold and manipulate information in the head over short periods of time. It’s the capacity to hold information in mind for the purpose of completing a task, encoding information, or generating goals, plans, and sequential steps to achieving goals. Working memory is essential to carry out multi-step activities,
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School Readiness Starts Be-4

The question that runs through many parents’ minds when they make the decision to enrol in school is “Will my child be school ready?” when January rolls around. The transition to school is one of the biggest challenges in early childhood. There has been a revolution in the way that school readiness has been conceptualised
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Let’s bring back the simple lunchbox! – by Dr Brooke Harcourt, Paediatric Dietitian; Family Dietetics and Complete Children’s Health

Whether the kids have their new lunchbox from Santa ready to go, or you’ve just asked your pre-teen where theirs is (and found it at the bottom of their school bag complete with last years unfinished wrap): the thought of another year of making, wrapping and sending off original, nutritious, tasty and ‘on trend’ lunches
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