child development
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Born to Move
How movement and music assists brain development in children ages 3-7 yearsSale! £15.00Born to Move challenges our mainstream assumptions about early development and learning with a rich distillation of perennial wisdom and cutting-edge science. In this revolutionary new book, Sally Goddard Blythe eschews politically-correct accelerationism with her refreshing focus on children’s real age-appropriate needs – as opposed to the ones that impatient adults think they should have.
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Movement
Your Child's First Language£25.00Movement, Your Child’s First Language challenges our mainstream assumptions about early development and learning with a rich distillation of perennial wisdom and cutting-edge science. In this revolutionary new book, Sally Goddard Blythe eschews politically-correct accelerationism with her refreshing focus on children’s real age-appropriate needs – as opposed to the ones that impatient adults think they should have.
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Raising Happy Healthy Children
Why Mothering Matters£16.99Raising Happy Healthy Children is a fully-updated second edition of What Children and Babies Really Need. With new information carefully added, this book examines the crucial early years from a child’s perspective. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives.
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Set Free Childhood
£10.99Set Free Childhood shows how to counter screen culture and create a calmer, more enjoyable family life.
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Teaching Waldorf Mathematics in Grades 1-8
Engaging the maths genius in every child£24.99The second edition of this time-tested resource for teachers and home educators, back by popular demand. Teach math with imagination and confidence, laying the foundations for life!
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The Genius of Natural Childhood
Secrets of thriving children£14.99Fifty-five per cent of parents admit they never read to their child. Toddlers watch 4.5 hours of TV daily. More children are obese, enter school developmentally delayed and need special education. So Sally Goddard Blythe draws on neuroscience to unpack the wisdom of nursery rhymes, playing traditional games and fairy stories for healthy child development. She explains why movement matters and how games develop children’s skills at different stages of development. She offers a starter kit of stories, action games, songs and rhymes.
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The Well Balanced Child
Movement and Early Learning£16.99The Well Balanced Child is a passionate manifesto for a “whole body” approach to learning which integrates the brain, senses, movement and play. This fully revised edition includes a new chapter with a story and movement exercise that parents can use to help children reach their potential.
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Too Much, Too Soon?
Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood£20.00In twenty-three hard-hitting chapters, leading educators, researchers, policy makers and parents advocate alternative ways ahead for slowing childhood, better policy-making and, above all, the ‘right learning at the right time’ in children’s growth — learning when they are developmentally ready.
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Under the Stars
The Foundations of Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education£20.00Here are the author’s thought provoking insights and principles derived from lifelong work in kindergarten education. They will free up educators to transform their observation of children, their practice and their self development.
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Waldorf Games Handbook For The Early Years
Games to Play and Sing with Children aged 3-7£19.99This Waldorf Games Handbook for playing and singing with young children contains 142 games including finger and clapping games, beanbag and skipping games, tumbling, water and chasing games, and story and singing games.
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You are Your Child’s First Teacher
What parents can do with and for their children from birth to age six£14.99How slow parenting will help you discover confidence in your own ability to parent and enjoy the magical first years of raising a child.