Welcome to our ToddleTips Blog

As a parent you strive to provide an enabling environment, one that will support and extend a child’s development and learning and that ensures purposeful play. Realising that children learn in different ways and at different rates will help you to create safe, healthy and educationally rich experiences for your child.

Here at ToddleBabes we aim to make your life that little bit easier by doing all the research for you and making it easily accessible on one site … no more trawling through hundreds of pages to find information. It will all be here!

ToddleTips covers the six areas of a child’s development:

  • What about my body?
  • Who am I?
  • How do I solve problems?
  • What can I make and create?
  • How can I talk, listen and learn?
  • What about the world?

Our ToddleBabes' Blog is where we provide you with articles and advice that will ensure all these areas are covered.

Articles on a variety of parenting issues, educational issues and self - improvement are added regularly so that you can keep up to date on what is new and relevant to you and your developing family.

We would love to know what interests you and what you’d like to know more about. Feel free to add comments to our various articles and share your thoughts with our other readers.

We look forward to helping you get the most out of being a parent!


Here are our some of our latest posts - Happy Reading!

Getting connected to ToddleBabes!

August 1st, 2009

In the interest of making this website easily accessible to all our members, we have now added the following buttons to the left side of our home page:

  • Twitter – Follow me goes to our Toddlebabes twitter account
  • Facebook – Become a fan goes to facebook ToddleBabes page
  • RSS – Allows anyone who uses a RSS reader such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Live, etc. to get the automatic feed from our latest posts
  • Email – You can signup for our the latest posts from the blog and automatically receive updates directly in your mailbox

If you would like to syndicate or use our blog feed on your website, send us a mail and we will get you linked up!

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

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Being Three…

July 28th, 2010

The 3-year-old is full of wonder and spends a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their days are filled with busy exploration of their world. Become a part of this world by joining in and trying to understand what makes the average 3 year old tick. Below we look at the characteristics of your toddler and include some helpful ideas and tips to enjoy this time together. Read the rest of this entry »

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Coping with picky eaters

July 24th, 2010

It’s exciting when your baby starts eating solid foods.  But, just as there are foods you like or dislike, there will be foods they like and ones they don’t. That being said, what can be done to help your child get over that frustrating “picky” phase?   Read the rest of this entry »

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Sticky Chocolate Brownies

July 23rd, 2010

Get baking with your toddlers this holiday and make these incredibly simple yet scrummy brownies… So yum, they may not even have enough time to cool down before they disappear! Read the rest of this entry »

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Being a good role model to your 4-5 year old

July 22nd, 2010

 Unfortunately it is a  well known fact that children do as you do, and not as you say…so how can you as a parent illicit the desired behaviour from your pre-schooler? Read the rest of this entry »

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Teach your Toddler about Numbers and Counting

July 20th, 2010

Have you ever wondered how to go about helping your child get to grips with the basics of numeracy? Here I cover some ideas for teaching your toddler about number and early stages of mathematics. Read the rest of this entry »

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Literacy for 0-4 year olds

July 17th, 2010

Simply talking, singing, playing sound and word games, reading, writing and drawing with your child are easy ways to build a firm literacy foundation. Your usual everyday activities, like going to the shop or library, as well as those special treats –like museum or zoo trips – all provide opportunities for developing literacy. Read the rest of this entry »

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