Children's Programs - Babies and Toddlers

Planning for babies and toddlers occurs through relationship-based experiences and interactions. The emphasis is to promote and maintain a secure attachment between a child and their primary caregiver (see primary caregiving), then with the wider environment. Relationship-based programming recognises that children need to feel safe and secure in a predictable and responsive environment. Programs are dynamic and responsive to individual children's interests and intrinsically motivated purposes, taking into consideration a child's emerging sense of autonomy, agency, identity and belonging and opportunities to experience interdependence and independence.

Staff and families work in partnership to offer children potential pathways that are individually relevant and challenging. Various lenses are used to achieve a programming cycle of noticing a child's pusuits, behaviours and communication and striving to understand them in the context of the environment. Staff then plan to offer children opportunities to extend or repeat their learning and revisit past experiences. These lenses revolve around children's secure attachment and patterns of relationship and connection, their wellbeing and involvement in the environment and their primary caregiver's ability to be emotionally available to children as individuals.

For more do read at - http://www.gowrie-adelaide.com.au/cms/?q=node/3

How to Read to your babies

First, be comfortable, cosy and relaxed - both of you. On the other hand, hearing a story can be very calming for a child who is in 'one of those moods'.

Next, make sure your child can see the book the right way up as you read.

For babies and toddlers up to 2 years

• point at pictures and say or ask names of things (depending on age)
• use a slow sing-song voice
• use different voices for different characters - be entertaining
• spend time talking about the pictures before turning the page
• say a name and ask your older baby or toddler to point to the item
• give huge praise each time your child points at and names an object

For 2-4 year-olds

• give your child time to look at the pictures before you read
• ask, 'Where's the...?' 'What's that called?' 'What's she doing?'
• always follow text with your finger as you read
• with familiar stories, see if your child can join in or finish phrases
• ask questions like: 'Why did he do that?' 'What happens next?'
• discuss things you both liked/didn't like and why

For 4 year-olds and over (and possibly some 3 year-olds)

• as for 2-4 year olds
• ask your child if he can remember the order of events in the story
• try paired reading (sometimes called shared reading)

Special activity
If you think your child may be ready for a real reading activity, try this: choose a word which appears several times (such as a name) show it to your child and tell him what it says: can your child find the same word again?

This is a first 'Look and Say' or 'Whole word' activity. For information about Look and Say and the other methods of teaching reading, click here.

FINAL TIP:
Let your child see that reading is part of your life. Do you have books and newspapers in the house?

for More information, do visit - http://childliteracy.com/babies.html

Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)

Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is the collection of signs and symptoms resulting from the violent shaking of an infant or small child. It is a form of child abuse. In America every year an estimated 1,200 - 1,400 children are shaken for whom treatment is sought. Of these tiny victims, 25 -30% die as a result of their injuries. The rest will have lifelong complications. It is likely that many more babies suffer from the effects of SBS yet no one knows because SBS victims rarely have any external evidence of trauma.

Taken from - http://www.dontshake.com/

Christian Baby Therapy Centre

The Baby Therapy Centre is an early intervention service, which helps all babies and toddlers with an impairment or development delay to expand their competence. Families of these babies are assisted to cope with the enormous burden they face.

13% of all babies have a mild to severe handicap, arising from injury, disease or genetic disorder. The good news is that early treatment and stimulation increase the chances for normal development in the period of maximum brain growth!

With this earliest treatment, secondary handicaps and fixed abnormalities are prevented in impaired babies who are otherwise deprived of learning experiences.

Mission statement,

The Baby Therapy Centre was established in 1994 as an Early Intervention service:

• to expand the competence of all impaired babies and toddlers
• and assist their families to cope

The first few years of life are critical for the building of a stable developmental foundation, upon which all further skills are built. In these years children learn to sit, crawl, walk, communicate, play and feed themselves etc.

If there are any barriers preventing this, the child is not able to reach his/her potential!

13% of all babies have a mild to severe handicap, arising from injury, disease or genetic disorder.

The good news is that early treatment and stimulation increase the chances of for normal development in the period of maximum brain growth! With this earliest treatment at the Baby Therapy Centre, we assist children from birth to 3 years of age to overcome barriers through various techniques, and to prevent secondary handicaps and fixed abnormalities.

Early Intervention services include individual therapy sessions, addressing each childs specific needs, and group therapy sessions, often including participation of parents, thereby optimising learning and interaction skills. Our approach is holistic and the whole team is involved according to the need of each child.

The Baby Therapy Centre is a non-profit organisation, founded and run on Christian principles.

We are situated in Lynnwood, Pretoria, and run various clinics and outstations.

Taken from https://www.givengain.com/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?c=116

A babies daily timetable

Here is an ideal babies timetable taken from
http://www.centralchildcare.co.nz/babies.htm

Daily Routine

The following table outlines our daily routine.

Time	Activity
7:30am	Main Centre Opens Babies have free play in the Toddlers area
9:00am	Babies Centre Opens All Centre Mat Time
9:15am	Nappy Change
9:30am	Morning Tea
10:00am	Planned Activity
11:00am	Free Play
11:15am	Nappy Changes
11:30am	Lunch
12:00pm	Bed Time
1:00pm	Nappy Changes
1:15pm	Free Play
2:30pm	Nappy Changes
3:00pm	Afternoon Tea
3:45pm	Move Over to Toddlers Area
4:00pm	Babies Centre Closes
4:15pm	Nappy Changes
4:30pm	Free Play
5:00pm	Snack Time (as appropriate)
5:45pm	Main Centre Closes