Welcome to Toddler Classes

You might want to take these with you to ease the ride

  • Be kind to yourself

  • Let go of perfection

  • Give yourself permission to muck it up

  • Be curious

  • Be open

  • Slow down

In Infant classes we were offered a different lens to view our babies. Using the lens of respect we were able to step into a ‘Partnnership Relationship’.

During these classes you will be offered another lens - that is; to view our toddlers as pure MAGNIFICANCE. Rather than the view our culture gives of naughty, terrible & horrific. What we think is what we predominantly see - that’s how amazing our brains are.

So this course and the readings in your Parent Handbook are going to invite you to let go of some beliefs you might carry about yourself and children. The opportunity is here to re-ignite your child-like state of curiosity, openess, wonder, creativity and beyond.

Will you allow your toddler to be your teacher, while you learn to be the solid someone who teaches them where the fences of society are?

Our role is to grow our child into a healthy adult who is developing and witnessing:

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Authenticticity & Individualuality

  • Opportunity to be capable & competant

  • Self Empowerment

  • A healthy sense of Independance.

You’ll get to grow these for yourself too, that’s where the magic is. - ALL ABOARD!!

For adult education, nothing surpasses having a toddler in the house.

Our children soak in the world around them, they’ll do what they see - not what they are told.

Your responses to this quiz will unconsciously creep into your parenting.

Let’s use number one for an example. Our ability to say no to things we don’t want to do/ If it’s a hardly ever. You will do things to please others and quite possibly and unconsciously expect your child to ‘be good’ and do the same.

It can be easy for us to loose ourselves in this role when life takes charge.

  • When we loose ourselves we step out of Heart Coherence, which is what we practiced so much in Infant Classes.

  • When you step out of Heart Coherence our children feel it and they SHOUT it back to us. Because they FEEL/KNOW the world first.

  • They FEEL the intentions behind your words. In infant classes we practiced our two posture posses.

    • Hands on Hips (and all that means)

    • Open Palm Pose (and all that means)

Where could you look after yourself a little better, so you can stay connected to you?

You are worth it.

Take the Quiz: People treat you the way you treat yourself.

Activity: The games we played in our childhood

Get comfortable with a pen and paper

  • Have fun with this - feel the excitement build as you remember the play.

  • The games you remember will possibly be when you were older, often this activity is tinged with a bit of sadness as the realisation hits, that our world is a different place today. Will our children get to experience the ‘freedom’ we did?

  • Our question is - how can we protect our childrens play, while keeping them safe as our world changes?

Rules & Boundaries

Rules & Boundaries

“Living together is an art”

Thich Nhat Hahn

Have a chat.

What rules/boundaries are important to you both and why? It’s important you agree because you’ll need to show a united front in the follow through.

  • Keep your rules as few as possible

  • Keep them clear, so everyone knows them

  • If they are broken - take action immediately - that’s the important bit.

  • It’s easy to make excuses for avoiding the discomfort of the follow through. Your tired, they’re just tired, they’re teething, they have had sugar.

    Red Rules are Red Rules. The following is an example of our house rules. They are super simple, life long and sooooo effective.

    ‘We respect each other & We respect our things’

Play Urges

The Play Urge refers to the innate, biological drive in every child (and human being) to explore, create, and learn through play.
It’s not something adults need to teach or direct — it’s something children are born with.

Pennie Brownlee and Kimberly Crisp describe it as a natural impulse that, when trusted and allowed to unfold, leads to deep learning, self-regulation, creativity, and joy.

Make it stand out.

Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.