Declutter Your House in the New Year for Your Mental Health Having a decluttered house reduces stress and improves sleep, which is what we need to get the New Year started on the right foot. With this in mind, packaging retailers RAJA UK has revealed tips on how to declutter your home and has provided a helpful calendar to make cleaning throughout the year as easy as possible. TIPS TO SUCCESSFULLY DECLUTTER YOUR HOME Use the three piles method: Divide your stuff into three pi

5 Tips to Prevent Holiday Meltdowns in Young Children by The Goddard School Between spending enough quality time with loved ones and keeping up with the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it’s common for many to experience some stress and anxiety this time of year – including the youngest members of our families. From the disruption in everyday routines to the novelty of new events and traditions, this stress can often cause meltdowns in little ones. For parents, this i

5 Quick Ways to Weave Music Into Family Life by Holly Mason, BMEd, Founder of Harmony Lodge Music Music has been around for more than 40,000 years (*possibly even more than 1 million years) and still holds such power, depth, and connective energy at its core. It helps convey emotions, encourages social bonding, **helps with memory and literacy skills, and boosts brain function. Music can also be very soothing and can further improve creativity and self-confidence. Additionall

Children’s Learning: Questions For Reflection by Dr. Joanne Foster, joannefoster.ca As one season, month, or year morphs into another, there are plenty of opportunities to reflect on how to encourage your child’s learning. This includes asking yourself key questions about their needs, educational options, learning environments, provisions, and supports. To that end, you’ll probably want to consider what they already know, what they want to understand further, and how they lik

Indoor ‘Untivities’ by Philip Mott, philipmott.com You are no doubt familiar with the plethora of activities you can do with toddlers. Just walking a craft aisle will likely give you tons of ideas of messy things to do that they will indeed love. Never mind that toddlers change their minds about what they want to do faster than you can normally set up something or the fact that the activity takes so much adult setup that the child isn’t doing any of it. That is why parents al