Tips from Childcare Support

1. Child Safety

Tie a small bell to any door leading out of the house and you'll be able to hear a small child making their escape!

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2. Eating Out

Keep paper and crayons in your purse and the gimmick of kid-friendly restaurants can be yours anywhere. Older kids can play hangman and naughts & crosses.

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3. Feeding Toddlers

Feeding toddlers can sometimes be a struggle, try putting a hand puppet on and have the puppet feed the toddler.

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4. Household Hint

Chewing gum in children's hair - dab with a cloth soaked with eucalyptus oil, gum should come out without tears.

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5. Learning to sit

Learning to sit. Use a blow up swimming pool ring around your baby's waist when they are learning to sit instead of propping up with pillows, this will save a lot of bumps and bruises.

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6. Long Car Trips

Enduring long car trips with the kids can be a lesson in extreme patience, help keep the kids calm by putting a tissue soaked in lavender oil above the back seat of the car. Lavender oil is a natural calming agent.

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7. Making Lunches Fun

Make school lunches more fun by using a cooking cutter to cut sandwiches into shapes!

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8. Preparation the Key

Preparing for school the evening before helps to minimise morning madness!

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9. Removing bandaids

Removing bandaids from a child’s skin without tears is easy if you soak a piece of cotton wool in baby oil and rub over the tape.

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10. Toddlers

Though it may be hard to believe at times, toddlers are not purposefully disobeying the rules to get you mad.

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