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All parents, carers, family, friends or those who work with children can help tip the scales positively. Develop children’s imagination and creativity with visits to local venues such as parks, parks with sculptures, art galleries, museums or libraries. These are often free or at a low cost to under-5s.

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Use a wide range of interesting and beautiful found materials, like wallpaper and fabric. Fabrics, fastenings and accessories for roleplay can have more potential than dressing-up costumes. Exploring materials and media inspires children to think flexibly and creatively.Who is Good At This Game? Linking an Activity to a Social Category Undermines Children’s Achievement Child brain development is like a set of scales. On one side of the scales there are positive experiences and on the other, negative experiences. Help ‘buffer’ the effects of tolerable stresses by offering safe, reliable and responsive support to children and young people. Teaching our kids to be happy with themselves – that we are all unique and have different strengths – understanding this about themselves allows them to tap into their strengths when things get tough. We are not looking to create ‘perfect’ individuals, but instead powerful, strong, happy individuals who know themselves and are happy with who they are. Kids coaching is essentially personal development – allowing every child the chance to develop the key life skills to sustain their growth and well-being. It is what I definitely wish I had been taught in school or at an early age as it would have given me a toolkit to cope with life.

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Parents and other caregivers can support healthy brain growth by speaking to, playing with, and caring for their child. Children learn best when parents take turns when talking and playing, and build on their child’s skills and interests. Nurturing a child by understanding their needs and responding sensitively helps to protect children’s brains from stress. Speaking with children and exposing them to books, stories, and songs helps strengthen children’s language and communication, which puts them on a path towards learning and succeeding in school. Take our training course to gain knowledge of building strong executive function skills and air traffic control systems For further reading about child brain development, search the NSPCC library catalogue using the keyword "brain" and "child development". To support children’s creativity and imagination you will need to consider the range of what you offer. When I was in the teaching credential program at San Francisco State, I often thought it was odd and even wrong that I was never asked to read the foundational writers of educational theory and child psychology. Students read about Dewey, and Piaget, and Vygotsky, yet we never read the authors themselves.Everyone experiences stress, and learning how to cope with stresses is an important part of child brain development (Shonkoff et al, 2014).