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5 Ideas for Encouraging Your Children into Eating Healthy

It’s no secret that some children can be extremely difficult to please in the food department. Dinner time can become a real struggle for the whole family when children are picky eaters. While many people believe you can never let your children pick what they do and don’t eat, some children’s relentless resistance can cause […]

“Over the fence”

Since I have started with Karana early education centre this year, I have been on two outings “over the fence” (as it has become affectionately known by the children) and have observed how children love these and how learning occurs naturally. From simply observing fauna and flora around them, learning about nature by experiencing it […]

5 Tips to Help Your Children Adjust to Kindergarten

There are many leading child care centre Karana that will help in making the transition from daycare to kindergarten smooth. The initial days of kindergarten may be tiring, emotional, and overwhelming for the entire family. So, below you will find some tips that will come in handy for kids and help them accept the new phase and […]

Children & Road Safety – Tips from around the Web

Road safety is extremely important, especially for children as they aren’t mature enough or educated at young ages to instinctually understand road safety. In this article, we have collected a variety of reputable tips from across the web to inform this blog on Children road safety.   Children need Active Supervision around Roads up until […]

Expression Through Creativity

We love some mark making at Karana.   We love to express ourselves through being creative and putting what we are thinking out into the dirt or sand.  Using sticks, or even our fingers and hands, we love to make our marks.  I often find the children making marks in the dirt or sand throughout […]

6 Tips to Prepare Your Child for Big School

Starting big school may be a difficult time for your child. It’s overwhelming to start something new for such a young child, especially something that involves changing their everyday routine. It can be an emotional time for the whole family in fact. Therefore, everyone should make strong efforts to make this transition smooth for the […]

Creating a new space with children

Over the course of the past month, we have been getting ready for our new secret garden. We moved our garden beds in the yard over to the new garden area, but that gave us something else to think about. What should we do with the old dirt from the garden beds? After some discussion, […]

5 Fun Christmas Activities for the Kids

Christmas is the season for presents, decorations, family fun, Christmas trees and a whole lot more holiday stuff. With the Christmas season just around the corner, you might be thinking of arranging some fun activities for the little ones enrolled in preschools. So here is a quick checklist of the top 5 activities that you can […]

A Whole New World

This year, we’ve been spending a lot of time on the 3Rs.  No, not THOSE 3Rs……  A slightly different version – reading, researching, reflecting.  We know that current research points to the importance of relationships – another R!  In fact, according to Nathan Wallis, who is a leading brain research expert – there is literally […]

How You Can Have a Plastic-Free Christmas

Christmas is one of the most important traditions all across the globe. Christmas celebrations last for several days as it is an auspicious occasion. There are a few things that one should be careful about while celebrating the long-awaited day. One of the major concerns is the accumulation of plastic. A latest research has indicated […]