A great children's party idea
Jenni Johnson, our resident ‘Baby Whisperer’, has been a practicing child-care practitioner for 15 years, and owns a busy ante and post natal clinic in Durban…
School holidays are a good time to ‘play’ with your children so build a tent in the garden, make home-made ice lollies, play old party games like ‘Simon Says’ and dance to your favourite music. Freeze dancing is especially fun, as you pass by the control button pause the music and all freeze like a statue, your toddlers will love it!
A lovely reasonable idea for a children’s party is to organize for the ice cream truck to arrive music blaring (as anybody who’s tried to have a Sunday afternoon sleep may know!) with ice creams for all. I saw a tweet where the truck to hire is about R250 and the ice creams R6 each.
Regular family meetings are a good way to help children develop character as well as good social and life skills. Schedule them for the same day and time, maybe twice monthly. Half an hour max. Suitable for children of 5 years and up. Have a format that you follow perhaps a family issue to solve – the untidy kitchen. Any problems anyone has. A compliment from everyone for everyone….
Being sick yourself or having a sick child when you have a great partner to help you is difficult enough but when this happens and you’re a single parent it must be incredibly difficult to deal with. All the thinking and googling that I’ve done as to how to ease the burden when this happens doesn’t offer much more than getting through ‘sick’ times with a day at a time approach so if you know single parents, when this happens to them, go the extra mile to reach out.
* Catch Jenni on-air every day just after 10am with her tip of the day.
At Jenni’s ante and post natal clinic in Durban, parents are taught a system that gives them structure and routine to the baby and childhood years. Jenni has a nursing background. She’s a registered nurse, midwife, psychiatric nurse and private nurse practitioner.
Jenni’s online clinic, can be accessed online via www.jennisays.com. For appointments, e-mail [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter via @JenniSays or on Facebook by 'liking' The Berea Baby Clinic.