Little Bugalugs Family Day Care

05/11/2020

05/11/2020

Indoor environment 🙂

02/03/2020

09/04/2019

CONNECTING TO OUR COMMUNITY 🌸
For children, a sense of community plays an important role in the development of their feelings of belonging and security. Children thrive in an environment of mutually supportive and caring relationships. For this reason developing a sense of community within a service is crucial. It is also valuable for children to feel part of a wider community that extends beyond the learning environment. As children grow and develop understandings of how society works, and to recognise and understand the shared values that underpin our society.
My program incorporates connecting to the community through regular age appropriate excursions to..
🌸library
🌸playgroups
🌸parks
🌸play dates with other Family Day Cares

08/04/2019

Part of my program includes visiting the Library where we borrow books, use the interactive computers and attend the community group time - baby rhyme time, toddler time or story time depending on the age group 🙂

08/04/2019

Getting into the Easter spirit with egg and spoon races and painting bunny rabbits 🐰

20/03/2019

The children learning about looking after our environment 🙂

30/07/2018

As of the 6th August there will be a vacancy for a new friend to join our group. Please give me a call if you are interested 🙂

30/04/2018

Love this 😊

100 Ways to Be Kind to Your Children

Tell them:
1. I love you.
2. I love you no matter what.
3. I love you even when you are angry at me.
4. I love you even when I am angry with you.
5. I love you when you are far way. My love for you can reach you wherever you are.
6. If I could pick any 4 year old (5 year old, 6 year old…) in the whole wide world, I’d pick you.
7. I love you to the moon and then around the stars and back again.
8. Thank you.
9. I enjoyed playing with you today.
10. My favorite part of the day was when I was with you and we _______.

Tell them:
11. The story of their birth or adoption.
12. About how you cuddled them when they were a baby.
13. The story of their name.
14. A story about yourself when you were their age.
15. The story of how their grandparents met.
16. What your favorite color is.
17. That sometimes you struggle too.
18. That when you’re holding hands and you give three squeezes, it’s a secret code that means, “I love you”.
19. What the plan is.
20. What you’re doing right now.

Play:
21. Freeze Tag
22. Uno
23. Crazy 8s
24. Gin Rummy
25. Memory
26. Go Fish
27. I Spy- especially when you’re tired of driving and feel snappish
28. Catch

Pretend:
29. To catch their kiss and put it on your cheek.
30. That their tickle tank is empty and you have to fill it.
31. That their high five is so powerful it nearly knocks you over.
32. That you are super ticklish.
33. That you are explorers in the amazing world of your own backyard.
34. That it’s party day!

Try:
35. To get enough sleep.
36. To drink enough water.
37. To eat decent food.
38. Dressing in a way that makes you feel confident and comfortable.
39. Calling a friend the next time you feel like you are about to lose it with the kids.
40. Giving a gentle touch to show approval, rather than saying something.
41. Dancing in the kitchen.
42. To get your kids to bop to the music with you in the car.
43. Showing your kids that you can do a somersault or handstand or a cartwheel.
44. Keeping the sigh to yourself. Just jump in and help clean up.
45. Using a kind voice, even if you have to fake it.

Read:
46. A book of silly poems.
47. A book and then act it out. (Like “I’m going on a Bear Hunt”)
48. Your favorite childhood book to them.
49. When the afternoon is starting to go astray.
50. Outside under a tree.
51. In the library kids corner.
52. The comic book they love that you’re not so hot on.
53. About age appropriate behavior so you can keep your expectations realistic.

Listen:
54. To your child in the car.
55. To that Lego description, and think how important it is to your child.
56. For that question that indicates your child really needs your input.
57. One second longer than you think you have patience for.
58. For the feelings behind your child’s words.

Ask:
59. Why do you think that happens?
60. What do you think would happen if______?
61. How shall we find out?
62. What are you thinking about?
63. What was your favorite part of the day?
64. What do you think this tastes like?

Show:
65. Your child how to do something instead of banning them from it.
66. How to whistle with a blade of grass.
67. How to shuffle cards- make a bridge if you can!
68. How to cut food.
69. How to fold laundry.
70. How to look up information when you don’t know the answer.
71. Affection to your spouse.
72. That taking care of yourself is important.

Take Time:
73. To watch construction sites.
74. To look at the birds.
75. To allow your child to help you dump ingredients in the bowl.
76. To walk places together.
77. To dig in the dirt together.
78. To do a task at your child’s pace.
79. To just sit with you child while they play.

Trust:
80. That your child is capable.
81. That you are the right parent for your child.
82. That you are enough.
83. That you can do what is right for your family.

Delight your child:
84. Clean your child’s room as a surprise.
85. Put chocolate chips in the pancakes.
86. Put a love note in their lunch.
87. Make their snack into a smile face shape.
88. Make sounds effects while you help them do something.
89. Sit on the floor with them to play.

Let Go:
90. Of the guilt.
91. Of how you thought it was going to be.
92. Of your need to be right.

Give:
93. A kind look.
94. A smile when your child walks into the room.
95. A kind touch back when your child touches you.
96. The chance to connect before you correct so that your child can actually hear your words.
97. Your child a chance to work out their frustrations before helping them.
98. A bath when the day feels long.
99. A hug.

~ Alissa Marquess creativewithkids.com/100-ways-to-be-kind-to-your-child

You get to choose the next one! What is your favorite way to be kind to your child?

Katharine Krueger ~ Journey Of Young Women

Learn to mentor girls, guide Girls Circles and offer Coming of Age
JourneyOfYoungWomen.org/Mentoring-Girls-Certificate-Training-1804

Photo: "Supported" by Erika Hasting

15/04/2018

Self-regulation is not simply self-control. It is the ability to manage our energy states, emotions, behaviour and attention: the ability to return to a balanced, calm and constant state of being.

Click here for more: https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/early-childhood/blog/what-every-child-needs-learning-self-regulation

19/03/2018

Sensitive kids are known for being more intense and stirred up by their environment. Sensory overload is common with some sounds being too loud, smells too powerful, and even touch or tags in clothes being too much to handle. They can be difficult to make sense of given their heightened reactions an...

25/01/2018

With Australia Day coming up the kids and I went for nature walk to explore some beautiful native Australian trees. The kids got to have a close look at and touch some gum nuts and flowers and also feel the soft bark of a paper bark tree 🇦🇺

10/11/2017

Story time

10/11/2017

Getting creative making critters!

09/11/2017

Being creative with some flower arranging 🌸

09/11/2017

The boys building some very good towers!

09/11/2017

Group activity learning to take turns and use fine motor and cognitive skills

09/11/2017

Playgroup fun!

09/11/2017

Speech errors in young children are very common, but at what point does it become a concern? Articulation disorders and phonological disorders can have a big impact on a child's intelligibility.

18/10/2017

13/10/2017

Park play date

13/10/2017

Great day for water play 🌞

25/09/2017

Spring cleaning our animals 🐶🐬🐋🐅