This section consists of general information that relates to helping you understand early movements. It includes background articles and videos that are a good place to start when learning about early movements of babies.

This section deals with newborns' spontaneous movements, or the movements that occur without any apparent stimulation, and their relationship to voluntary movements. Understanding spontaneous movements helps you interact during playtime and appreciate your baby’s developing movements.

In this section you will find information on infantile reflexes including the different types of reflexes, when they appear and disappear, and how they are related to the development of movement. Understanding how your newborn baby moves means you can appreciate the changes in their reflexes and emerging skills along the way.

This section consists of any general information relating to the early skills section. You will find helpful articles that give an overview of background information. It is advisable that you read some of the articles in this section as you continue to learn and appreciate more about your developing baby.

The skills and play section consists of articles and videos that will help you learn about how kids will acquire a range of skills through play and, most importantly, how you can use play to facilitate the emergence of kids' early skills.

This section teaches you about locomotion skills.  The articles and videos show you how during playtime you can help facilitate the beginnings of locomotion and provide play challenges over the first three years that lead to more accomplished movement abilities.

This section consists of information relating to the development of posture and balance in kids from 0-3 years. From neck strength in young babies and learning to sit without support, to balancing and kicking, you can find articles and videos that will give you both the understanding and confidence to purposefully play with babies and toddlers to help develop their posture and balance.

The information in this section will help you to develop hand-eye coordination in babies through to 3 year olds by facilitating purposeful play experiences. It will help you understand how hand-eye coordination development begins with a baby's reaching and grasping movements, through to how kids can start to develop catching and striking skills that relate to sport. And, most importantly, how you can be instrumental in helping kids develop hand-eye coordination.

The articles and videos in this section will show you how a baby’s spontaneous leg movements and infantile reflexes develop into purposeful movements that lead locomotion and kicking skills. You will learn how through fun play you can encourage these skills and provide a foundation for future learning and development.

As early skills emerge the brain is laying down connections at a once in a lifetime rate. The brain's openness to learning is at its peak in the first 3 years of life. This section puts brain research in relation to skill development in practical terms and tells you what every parent or caretaker should know. It will inspire you to make a difference to your child's skills through the power of play.

This section shows how parents and caretakers can use their knowledge to engage babies and toddlers in age appropriate play sessions. Play sessions can include activities that build strength, stimulate the perceptual systems, develop hand-eye and foot-eye coordination and facilitate balance and locomotion skills. You don’t have to stick to a plan, but rather follow your baby or toddler's lead and gradually incorporate different activities.

This section contains the articles that deal with sensory motor development as a whole and provides you with helpful background information.

In this section you will find information that teaches you about the development of vision and the visual perception system from birth. You can learn how to facilitate experiences to develop visual perception and use visual experiences to encourage movement, as well as learn how to encourage fundamental skills like catching and kicking that rely heavily on the visual perception system to emerge.

Touch is a fundamental means of interaction between infants and toddlers and the important people in their life.  This section will show how touch can be used to help stimulate emotional and physical development as well to encourage investigation and appreciation of the environment.

This section will help you understand the development of the auditory or hearing systems.  The articles and videos will show you how during play you can encourage exploration, movement and fun.

This section covers how body awareness develops in the early years and its importance in relation to physical skills.  It will also show you what you can do to encourage body awareness development.

Spatial awareness is the ability to accurately perceive oneself and other objects in a given space and the vestibular system provides us with information that helps us balance and orientate ourselves.  This section covers how spatial awareness and the vestibular system develop, how infants and toddlers become better at interacting within a given space, how spatial awareness and balance helps physical skills develop and what you can do to promote awareness.

This section consists of articles and activities that are a good place to start when considering the learning of young kids and how you can facilitate learning through play.

This section helps you understand what is actually happening from a brain development perspective with learning.  It will teach you about how the brain changes with learning to achieve more effective and adaptable skills and how this allows the possibility of even further learning.

It is through early play that babies and toddlers develop strength and posture and learn how to coordinate their bodies. This section teaches about how kids start to develop early skills and how you, through fun purposeful play, can help the emergence of skills that lay the platform for years of future physical activity and learning.

The free play section will help you appreciate the benefits of free play. You can learn how to be a facilitator of free play in subtle ways to help kids develop creativity, problem solving and interests amongst other things.

In the exploration and play section you can learn about kids in built urge to learn and explore.  Find out how you can facilitate play that encourages exploration of their own abilities, their surroundings and what else life has to offer.

This section will help you appreciate the link between creativity and play. You can learn how to facilitate creative play experiences for kids by enriching their environment and through your interactions.

The environment kids play in has a huge impact on their development.  In this section, you can learn how to create enriched environments that support psychological and physical development as well as how to change their play environment in subtle ways to foster the emergence of new skills.

In the problem solving and play section you can learn how we solve problems, how kid’s problem solving skills emerge and how the play experiences you facilitate and your interactions can influence how kids approach problems through life.

In the general psychological development section you will find general information about your toddler’s developmental stage from a psychological perspective.

In the psychology attachment relationships section you will find articles regarding parent-child relationships. Articles will focus on the first few years of life. You can find out how important these interactions are, research study summaries that show this importance, and practical advice regarding these crucial relationships with your child.

In the psychology emotional development section you will find articles that help you understand and nurture your child’s emotional development. This section will focus on your toddler’s internal experiences, including thoughts, feelings, and urges.

In the psychology attentional development section you will find plenty of activities and articles that help you nurture your toddler’s ability to pay attention in the present moment. This is a vital skill that will positively impact your toddler’s development of well-being in wide ranging ways.

In the psychology brain science section you will find articles that explore your toddler’s development from a brain perspective, particularly focusing on the importance of this sensitive period of your toddler’s brain development.

This section provides you with general and background information on parenting to help you make lasting difference on your kid’s lives.  This is a good place to start reading and learning on your incredible role as a parent.

The parenting and play section aims to help you understand the wonder of play, your role in their play, how play experiences can be facilitated and manipulated, and how play is a vehicle through which you can build your relationship.

The parenting and skills section helps you understand what role you can best play to positively influence your kid’s skill development.

In the parenting and psychology section you will find a range of articles that will help you understand and nurture your toddler’s healthy psychological development during the first few years.

In the mindful parenting section you will find a series of articles focused on helping you develop parenting skills that will allow you to monitor your own internal experiences during parenting challenges so you can more flexibly respond to you your toddler when you desire.

This section provides covers how exercise affects cognitive function, kids ability to form memory and learn and how exercise impacts kids academic performance in the long term.

This section deals with how exercise impacts both day to day psychological functioning and long term psychological development.

In this section you can find practical information from expert nutritionists. You can learn how certain foods affect brain function and development, how to achieve a healthy balanced diet for kid’s, tried and tested recipes and tips to make the daily food tasks a whole lot easier. 

This section covers what you need to know about physical activity levels of kids including how much should they be getting at different ages, what type and how it will affect them long term.

This section covers statistics that all parents and professionals interacting with kids should be aware of including alarming trends we are now seeing in kids health and activity.

This section deals with how exercise, physical activity and sport impacts kid’s social development and interactions.