help a sweet little rabbit to go to sleep by tickling his ears

help a sweet little rabbit to go to sleep by tickling his ears

Lovely fun for toddlers to about 4 years.
Do you have funny little bedtime routines at your house? One of my children always needed a cold tummy-button, summer or winter. We eventually settled on a little ice pack to cuddle up to in bed! For other children, it was endless stories or just the right pyjamas – you know the drill I’m sure.  

The little rabbit in this story has a routine too.

He loves to have his ears tickled, and his pillow fluffed, and his back stroked - and a goodnight kiss, of course.

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an ode to an Australian winter, where snow falls on gum trees

an ode to an Australian winter, where snow falls on gum trees

Set in Australia. A sweet wombat revels in the beauty of an Australian high-country winter, complete with snow on gum trees. A celebration of an Australian winter and the joy of finding your way home.
ages newborn to 8 years

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building emotional resilience by gathering a storehouse of ideas, responses and experiences

building emotional resilience by gathering a storehouse of ideas, responses and experiences

Read-it-before-you-need-it means owning and reading well-chosen books that relate to important issues and significant life events. Before a child is touched by them ... building a small library of books that deal with experiences such as new babies, relationships, adventure, moving house and the weighty issues of anxieties, misunderstandings, disappointments, poverty, grief, ageing, illness and death. 

And it’s about letting those stories find their way into the child’s play or quiet time so that they can wade around in the ideas and experiences that they've read about.

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