Navigating our new COVID-19 normal at Beach Kids Early Learning & Preschool and our plan

As New South Wales, and Australia as a whole, take precautionary steps to open to the world again after a challenging two years, Beach Kids Early Learning & Preschool is taking proactive steps to ensure our children and our early childhood educators & teachers are as safe as possible as we navigate this new normal. […]

Helping Children Take Responsibility

It can be frustrating when children do not take responsibility for their actions. For the most part, children who do not accept responsibility may blame others or forces beyond their control, thus making it difficult for them to admit any wrongdoing or to offer an apology. When children refuse to accept responsibility, adults can find […]

Making Separation Easier

When children separate from their parents it can be a tearful and challenging time for all involved. From the child’s perspective, it is little surprise that they prefer the parent to stick around. They are, after all, the people who children rely on and enjoy the company of most. When children tear up it is […]

Supporting Children Through Separation

When parents separate it can be difficult for everyone involved. The nature of separation often means that parents do not leave their relationship amicably without emotions making an already testing situation more difficult. With children, separation is not as simple as resolving the loss of hopes and dreams regarding the  fallen relationship. Instead, it becomes […]

What To Expect From A Preschool Readiness Program

As a parent, you know all about being prepared. From before your baby is born, you are preparing for their birth by eating right, planning your hospital and buying baby clothes. As they grow, you continue to prepare for milestones, prepare for bathtime, doctor visits, and nutritious meals. So why not apply this to their […]

Developing Concentration Skills

It is not hard to understand why concentration skills play an important role in an individual’s life. Without a good attention span, undertaking daily tasks, both as children and as adults, becomes increasingly difficult. For this reason, credence is being paid to research which suggests that the average attention span is reducing at an alarming […]

How Early Childhood Education & Care Programs Boost Development

The primary years in a child’s life, specifically from birth to age five, are crucial to how they develop physically, emotionally, socially, personally, and academically. This is when the brain is most receptive to learning. Everything happening around them is helping to mould and shape them into the adults they will one day become, therefore […]

Teaching Boredom

Boredom is something that we inevitably face over and over in life.  When boredom strikes it is often thought we need to distract children from its clutches, however, boredom plays a significant role in supporting the development of specific life skills.  While boredom seems less like something parents would wish to expose children to and […]

How A Parent Creates Their Child’s Solid Learning Foundation

Your perfect baby is growing faster than you can blink and, here it is, time to enrol them in childcare/preschool. Or had you not thought seriously about it? Quality early learning (childcare/Preschool) has been proven, via multiple studies, to establish and deepen your child’s development base via physical and mental stimulation, social-emotional skills advancement and […]

Beach Kinder takes children out of the classroom and onto the sand

When your child care centre is just 100 metres from Cabarita Beach, it’s easy to see why excursions to the beach would be so popular. At Beach Kids Early Learning & Preschool, the children enjoy sea breezes at the centre and fun extracurricular activities such as beach kinder with their friends. Toddle spoke to Susan, […]