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Chia Pudding - easy 3 ingredient recipe!
Feel free to right click and save the easy chia seed pudding recipe below - or download the PDF underneath it. ENJOY!
tessaapa
Oct 24, 20231 min read
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The Most Important Thing for Your Child is Self-Esteem
The single most important for your child to develop is a high sense of self-esteem. Self-esteem/noun/… "confidence in one’s own worth or...
tessaapa
Sep 30, 20232 min read
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The Eduplay Childcare Travelling Bears
The Karekare room had a goal this year to find a meaningful way to connect our children’s home life with the centre. So in May 2023,...
tessaapa
Aug 28, 20232 min read
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3 Ingredient Recipe - Vege Rice
Here is 3 ingredient recipe number two! This recipe is refined sugar free and packed with hidden veges and protein. You can easily make...
tessaapa
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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3 Ingredient Recipes - Child Edition
I’ve been fascinated by three ingredient recipes for a very long time, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to find 3 ingredient snack...
tessaapa
Jun 30, 20231 min read
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Why Science at Childcare?
Do you have a budding scientist in your family? A love of science starts with curiosity, and the desire to solve problems. This is...
tessaapa
May 24, 20231 min read
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What Makes Eduplay the Best Childcare for Your Child?
If you’re wondering whether Eduplay Childcare is the right place for your child – please read on! When it comes to choosing a Childcare...
tessaapa
Apr 27, 20233 min read
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What does feeling safe have to do with Learning? Turns out…EVERYTHING
Our beautiful brains have one job – to keep us ALIVE. Before our brains deal with behaviour or learning or relationships – they deal with...
tessaapa
Mar 30, 20232 min read
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Criticism vs Correction
All parents and caregivers know that raising competent, caring humans is hard work. We don’t always get it right, and neither did our own...
tessaapa
Feb 27, 20232 min read
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Travelling with Toddlers
Hands up all those who have survived a long haul flight with a toddler! Not easy right? My son recently used the word HORRIFIC to...
tessaapa
Jan 17, 20232 min read
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What Do You Want For Christmas?
We had a lot of fun asking some of our pre-schoolers what they hoped Santa might give them for Christmas. Here is the full video...
tessaapa
Dec 24, 20221 min read
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IT's A WRAP!
Let’s face it, Christmas is a lot more fun with children. Children plus presents is a simple recipe for joy. The act of opening a present...
tessaapa
Nov 28, 20222 min read
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Boredom Busters - at home edition
It’s not just School Holidays that require boredom busters for our children, teacher only days and long weekends need them too. Or maybe...
tessaapa
Oct 19, 20222 min read
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Do You Gaslight Your Child?
First of all, what does Gaslight actually mean? To undermine or manipulate someone into doubting their own feelings or sanity When I...
tessaapa
Sep 28, 20223 min read
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The 5 sounds that ALL babies make
A lot of research has been done to try and understand the various sounds that babies make. One study was conducted over eight years and...
tessaapa
Aug 27, 20223 min read
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WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR SNOT?
Let’s be honest, COVID19, RSV and the common cold are circling us all like sharks right now. It doesn’t seem to make that much difference...
tessaapa
Jul 6, 20225 min read
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Do You Know Your Child's Love Language?
The five love languages of children Have you heard of the 5 Love Languages? A fantastic book by Dr. Gary Chapman that revolutionised...
tessaapa
Jun 27, 20224 min read
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Handwashing 101
Teaching our tamariki to wash their hands properly is the smartest thing we can all do to prevent infections. By now, we all know this to...
tessaapa
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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Art and Aesthetics for the Young Child
Art and creative play has always been a mainstay of early childhood education, however the extension of guiding a child towards...
tessaapa
May 11, 20224 min read
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Ready...steady...GO!
Being ready and being steady before we GO is important. Especially when it comes to starting school. It‘s important for our child, but...
tessaapa
Mar 14, 20222 min read
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