Playgrounds and outdoor play equipment provide fun, fresh air, and exercise, but they also can pose some safety hazards. Faulty equipment, improper surfaces, and careless behavior are just a few of the hazards of playgrounds. Many of these could be prevented with the proper supervision. You can make the playground a place that’s entertaining and safe for your kids by checking equipment for potential hazards and following some simple safety guidelines. And teaching kids how to play safely is important: If they know the rules of the playground, they’re less likely to get hurt. Playground injury is a serious and common childhood event.

The natural environment provides great opportunities for creative play. Creative play is essential for the development of children. Its a big learning experience for kids and give them essential development skills like:

• Learning about people, pets and the environment.
• Stimulating their imagination and satisfy their curiosity.
• Understanding the importance of rules and in different situations and environment.
• Developing logical thinking processes and extend and enhance their present abilities.
• Development of general social skills and self esteem.
• Learning from the failure and developing the art of not giving up.
• Ability to interact with the adults and developing team player attitude

To provide children with this learning environment a play space should incorporate areas for active, free, quiet, social, imaginative, creative, exploratory and natural play. This will allow children to learn while playing and using their imagination.

Safe Play Rules

• Always supervise your child and play fair.
• If you are paticipating in the game as well, than let the kids win, its good for their morale and they will not push themselves to the limits, causing accidents.
• Use equipment safely, sensibly and for their intended use.
• Adults should not try any stunts while kids are watching, kids will try to copy those stunts.
• Share with others and wait for your turn to use equipment.
• Play gently without violence, pushing and pulling can cause falls.
• Proper footwear and clothing to be worn while using play equipment to avoid any entrapment or strangling.
• Always inform the proper authority, if you find any equipment malfunctioning or broken, Don’t try to fix yourself, but put the sign up to inform others that its broken.

From the day we are born till the end of life we are in relationships with many people. To deal with these relationships in flawless ways we need to master the social skills. Social skills are the basic building blocks of our life from playground to school and in our adult life. Social skills need to be taught and learned. In fact we learn or refine one or another social skill on everyday of our life. Unless parents learn how to build a loving, stable and peaceful relationship with each other, they probably won’t build a good relationship with their children. Developing social skills in the kids will start from the very early stage and it will include:

Listening

Being patient

Respecting themselves, others and things around them

Being cooperative and team player

Sharing and taking turns

Caring and helping others

Good and positive communication

Conflict resolution

Participation and focusing on the task

Learning from failure

Adjusting to the differences of society

Analyzing the difference between good and bad

Social skills are lifelong survival skills. If we dont teach kids the right skills from the beginning, as they grow up they may find themselves out of place, many times in life. It can also make a difference with your child liking and adjusting to the school, new friends, new classes or dropping out from school.

Your grown child is now going to be a teenager, the bridge to adulthood.

This is the age when they start asking, fighting and arguing for more freedom, greater independence and test the limits of acceptable behaviour. They are looking for individuality, their own special acceptance in the society.Because of the raging hormonal changes inside their body, your child becomes moody, and their body, emotions and actions are affected. Their clothing, appearance, behaviour and thinking, all are changing very fast and more often than ever. This is also the most vulnerable age when they are getting more confused and more often they have to choose between the parents and the friends.

This is the time your child needs more support from you, more privacy and more time for themselves, so they can adjust to the occurring changes.

In this pre-school period, you can easily see the difference among the learning performances of kids. Some kids learn fast, while some are slow to catch up.

The love and caring your kid gets from home, as well as the mental stimulation from his environment and the people around him affect his first grade performance.

It is at this stage that your child’s mind works so fast and his interest branches out in many different directions.

How fast he will go in any direction will depend on how much you, the parent, spend time on him, his individual pace of learning which is determined by his genes, and how much early stimulation he receives before age 3.

Attending a nursery school or a day care center that encourages early learning also helps.

Dictionaries describe the word “SMART” as prompt in action, intelligent, clever, witty, sharp, dashing, elegant and even cunning and shrewd.

Smart is not just the intelligence or doing great in school but being Intelligent and clever in every way of life, in the school, outside the school and even in our adult life.

How do we achieve this without making our kids life stressful. We as parents have to think and act smart to make our kids smart. This website is created for all those young parents who may need help on many of the topics that keep arising everyday. For the rest who think they know everything, please help us (the young parents), with your inputs. Our aim as the developers of this site is to provide all the possible information at one point.