Ms Richardson is a mum of two, with a Masters in Childhood Studies and 15 years’ experience working in early childhood education. She helps parents pare back their children’s toy collections and set up engaging play experiences, and offers advice here that we can all apply at home. If it’s difficult for you to get fucked, or if you haven’t been fucked before, try using a small silicone buttplug or dildo with a base. Silicone is great because it’s flexible and will curve to the shape of your ass – but make sure you use a water-based lube, because silicone lube will react with your toy and start to melt it away. Once your toy is lubed up, start playing with your hole with your lubed up fingers (short fingernails are a must) and then bring the tip of the toy to your hole.
Educational toy stores offer a fabulous range of science and nature toys, making sure that chemistry, biology, geology and physics are well and truly covered. Telescopes, pulleys and levers, electrical circuits, model skeletons, chemistry sets, solar systems, globes, and motors are all fabulous learning toys, and there are so many different types on offer. There are also many toys and activities you can make at home which will help develop your child’s interest in science and nature, and we will cover these in future articles. One of the more significant ways that playing with playdough increases children’s learning opportunities is by offering them the chance to practise their social skills. It keeps children busy while they learn pre-writing skills.
You and your child will love this stress-free and mess-free finger painting activity! Grab a resealable bag, pop some paper inside and add a few small blobs of different coloured paint. Seal the bag shut and tape it onto your window or tabletop, then let baby run their hands all over it! Once they have finished, you’ll be left with an original piece of artwork to hang up in their room or on the fridge.
Adult Store NZ at RMIT, led by industrial design lecturer Judith Glover, is investigating the design of customised, inclusive sex toys. Historically speaking, the female orgasm has been not so much elusive as ignored, or “suppressed for centuries”, as Laura puts it. The clitoris, on which it largely depends, is an organ, the visible portion of which – the glans – sits at the front of the inner lips of the vulva, above the opening of the urethra.
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When building structures and sets, children can experiment with size, shape, number and texture as well as weight, balance and symmetry. Where some toys are designed to be played within a certain way, with little room to diverge, some toys are designed to help children discover solutions to problems while figuring out how things work. Asking your child questions like “How do you feel about…” and “What do you think will happen if…” can encourage children to develop their own ideas and how to articulate themselves while shedding light on their interests and perspectives. As well as wanting to know more about themselves, curious children are also interested in the people around them, which is key to developing connections with other children and adults.
Child-directed play is similar to free play but includes more adult engagement. This kind of play may be facilitated by an adult, but is still totally under the child’s direction and control. In an early childhood environment that is increasingly academic-centered and skill-based, this type of play may be on the decline, as many programs focus on more structured activities aimed at enhancing early literacy and numeracy skills. The article also provides appropriate strategies for each age and stage of the early childhood period.