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Isn’t Spring wonderful?  It’s my favourite time of the year.  Cool mornings and night and lovely sunny days with occasional rainy ones.   This month’s recipe is a great for cool nights. Baked Spaghetti & Meatball Pie another great recipe from ‘Deceptively Delicious’ by Jessica Seinfeld.  I hope you enjoy it!

I hope you all enjoyed making your own pizza from last months Easy Pizzi Pizza.

A Note from the Editor

With our changing weather make sure you dress your child in layers so that you can strip off the top layers as the day warms up or add a few layers as the evenings become cooler.   If you are concerned about how much to dress your children in please read our article on Changing Seasons and how it Effects your Child's Temperature and our link with our Clothing Guide chart.

You may also like  to take a look at our links- How and When to Wrap Your Baby and Transitioning out of a baby wrap.  We encourage parents to wrap babies till around 7-10 months as this assists good sleep.

If you would like to read about the services Cradle 2 Kindy Parenting Solutions provide please click on the following links Newborn Care, Baby Care and Toddler & Child, Respite for Parents, a Night Nurse or a Professional Babysitter we also provide Gift Vouchers for many of these services.  For more information or to make a booking call Sally on: 0409 721 145.

Topic of Interest

This month we are taking a break from the poisons found around the home as I’d like to bring to your attention research that is being carried out on dyslexia.

The Seed of Literacy is looking for infants aged between birth and 6 months to help establish links between early speech and language development and later literacy skills.

The Seeds of Literacy is a 5-year project aimed at identifying early precursors of one of the most difficult tasks we ever learn, reading. We will compare the development of language skills of 100 infants with and without a family history of dyslexia. Each infant’s speech, language, and pre-reading skills will be recorded at regular intervals from 6 months through to 5 years, and the results will help establish links between early speech and language development and later literacy skills, and may assist in developing earlier screening and interventions to give all children the best possible start at school.
 
All parents and infants are encouraged to apply, parents who may be dyslexic themselves, or parents interested in reading and their child’s development. If you have an infant aged between birth and 6 months, you may be eligible to participate.  Your child will be recorded at 6 months of age and every 4 to 6 months afterwards over a period of 4½ years and be a member of the Seeds of Literacy Club.
 
To register or for more information, please call 9772 6696 or register online at www.babylab.com.au

The study commences in November, more information will be posted on the website soon.

For more inforomation about Cradle 2 Kindy Parenting Solutions click here and read What happens at a coaching session.

Your feedback is invaluable

Thank you once again for all your feedback regarding our newsletter and articles. Please let me know if there is a topic you would like us to write about.

Thank you.

Warm regards,

Sally Hall

This Month's Article

This month’s article is titled ‘To send, or not to send?’ written by Ida Shapievsky. She looks at autumn-winter birthday children and the discussions parents address when thinking about when to send them to school “Parents of autumn-winter birthday kids often face a tough choice....” click on the link above to read more.

To view our latest Recipes for Kids on this link.

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Carol's email

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Natasha's Comments

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