Sarah Putland

One moment your toddler is happily getting ready to leave the house. The next, they're lying on the floor because you gave them the blue cup instead of the green one. To us, the problem can seem tiny. To a two-year-old, it can feel enormous. Tantrums are one of the most challenging parts of toddlerhood for adults, but they are also a very normal part of development. Between the ages of two and three, children are developing an increasing desire for independence, while the parts of their brain...

Rethinking Sleep Through Relationships, Respect and Trust As parents and educators, it can be easy to view sleep as a challenge to be solved. How do we get babies to sleep longer? How do we encourage children to nap? How can we help toddlers settle more easily? Yet when we look through the lens of the Pikler approach, we begin to see sleep differently. Rather than viewing sleep as something adults do to children, Emmi Pikler invites us to see sleep as a deeply personal and developmental...

Preparing Children Not Just for School, But for Life For many years, success was often measured by academic achievement. Could a child read, write, count and perform well in exams? Whilst these skills remain important, the world our children are growing up in is changing rapidly. Many of the jobs our children will do have not yet been invented. Technology is transforming how we live and work. Information is available at the touch of a button. In a world where knowledge is increasingly...